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The chairman has problems defending the SmallBlue Planet's charging structure

"Look, we're going to have to talk about this some time," I said to the chairman of the insignificantly-sized investment company SmallBluePlanet as I surprised him at his desk and barricaded his office door shut. "Oh come down from there – you look ridiculous and you know very well your windows are permanently locked. Anyway, we're on the sixth floor. Now listen, I've brought a bottle of Chateau Zagame with me so let's sit down, see if it packs as much of a punch as people are saying and thrash this out once and for all." You may or may not recall that the last time I met up with the chair...

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