According to Roger Wallis of London's City University Business School, Europe's collecting societies work rather like the postal system: one price for all destinations, one administrative charge for everybody.

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"I think it's really exciting for this region, for everybody, and I think all of the schools in this region, to have Dallas as one of those sites is great for everybody in this region, and exciting for everybody, " Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops said.

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The country has long been used as the example of where not to be on the Gini co-efficient a scale for income inequality where one means one person has all the country's income and zero means everybody has an equal share.

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