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Firms in the insurance, fund-management, securities and building-society sectors were all, on balance, pessimistic about short-term business prospects.
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The building-society is thus a savings bank, where money accumulates for a certain purpose.
Thrift Samuel Smiles 1858
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A law passed in 2008 under Gordon Brown's Labour government allows the government to use money from dormant bank and building-society accounts "for social or environmental purposes."
BusinessWeek.com -- 2010
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