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Costco issues a special dividend. Microsoft deals with problems below the Surface. And Zynga makes a risky bet. Our analysts discuss those stories. Plus, Robert Pozen shares some insights from his book, Extreme Productivity.
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On More or Less this week Tim Harford looks at three polls carried out to gauge the public?s opinion on press regulation gave vastly different answers despite being carried out by the same polling company. Tim talks to Peter Kellner, President of online polling company YouGov. Would you send Kevin Pietersen out to bat if your life depended on him scoring a century? Have two thirds of millionaires really left the country as claimed by the Daily Telegraph this week? What percentage of drinks might be affected by the introduction of a minimum price for alcohol. And how high could you build a Lego tower before the bottom brick collapses? Ruth Alexander dons her safety goggles to find out?
Slate critics Dan Kois, Hanna Rosin, and David Haglund discuss Zadie Smith’s novel about four Londoners from the same council estate.
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This is the first in the new series of the programme. There?s a well-established idea that Manchester United get more added time than every other Premier League team. More or Less looks at the numbers behind this so called ?Fergie Time?. Do Manchester United get more injury time than other top teams when they?re drawing or losing?
On Start the Week Andrew Marr looks at Germany's role in Europe. Katinka Barysch argues that despite the crisis, support for EU integration still dominates, and that unlike Britain, the ability to compromise is seen as a skill, not a weakness. Two British MPs, from left and right, Gisela Stuart and Douglas Carswell, remain sceptical about the EU, but German-born Stuart understands her birth country's emotional connection to it. Carswell argues that the digital revolution calls for smaller, not larger governments, and Karen Leeder believes that despite Germany's belief in the European project it still has not laid to rest the ghosts of unification. Producer: Katy Hickman.