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The Push to Keep Scotland in the Fold - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • nine days
  • recent polls suggesting that the outcome is very much in doubt
  • fly north to campaign
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  • more say over its own affairs if it votes to stay in the union
  • warned Scots against thinking that they could count on retaining the pound sterling as their currency should they secede.
  • Jane McGeachy
  • wants change
  • Gordon Brown
  • former prime minister and a Scot
  • new political powers for Scotland if voters rejected
  • greed Tuesday to put the legislation on a fast track
  • unimpressed
  • women, who were more cautious earlier in the campaign, are turning toward the “yes” camp, as are working-class voters, even though the Labour Party opposes independence.
  • more socially inclusive country that it says can be built only with the powers that independence would bring
  • British Parliament in Westminster is seen by many voters as remote and out of touch
  • The Conservative Party
  • 59 seats in Parliament
  • a society for the greedy people
  • have been torn down and a big new shopping complex opened.
  • attracting many disillusioned people who normally do not vote at all.
  • supported independence partly out of despair with his current situation.
  • £100 (about $160) a week
  • had depression
  • economy would be hurt by independence
  • Alex Salmond
  • cotland’s oil wealth
  • keep the pound
  • maintaining a common currency after independence was “incompatible with sovereignty.”
  • they are bluffing and that if London refused to negotiate a currency union, Scotland would walk away from its share of the national debt.
  • I’m sick of the English telling us what to do,
  • I think someone would strangle him.
  • emphasizing freedom and opportunity and a once-in-a-lifetime chance for self-determination,
  • is attractive to many who are still undecided.
  • struggled to shake off a reputation for negativity
  • she had not yet made up her mind
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Release of iPhone 6 Delayed in China - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • fastest-growing markets
  • delayed
  • Sept. 19, when sales start elsewhere
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  • told China’s three big state-owned mobile service providers
  • did not explain the delay
  • phones had not received approval from Chinese regulators to go on sale
  • iPhone could represent a threat to China’s national security. The accusations were promptly rejected by Apple.
  • caught off-guard by the last-minute change of plans
  • there are some details which are not ready,”
  • China Mobile and China Unicom
  • website carried a statement saying only that the date of the iPhone 6’s availability would “be updated soon.”
  • began selling iPhones through China Mobile
  • Apple’s fastest-growing major market
  • $5.9 billion in greater China from April to June, a 28 percent increase from the same period a year earlier
  • 16 percent
  • Apple has never worked with any government agency from any country to create a back door in any of our products or services,
  • We have also never allowed access to our servers. And we never will. It’s something we feel very strongly about.
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