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Ironically, the British occupation gave Guadeloupe’s economy a big boost: between 20,000 and 30,000 more slaves were transported in and new cane-grinding windmills built, all of which spurred the sugar trade to unprecedented prosperity.
Only if it serves as a building block to a better Smiley novel in the future, one in which her brilliant lessons of disillusionment fly faster, because they're spurred on by a bigger, warmer imagination.
The family admits now that this was a diversion which, says the paper, has in turn spurred some talk that perhaps her death was an assisted suicide.
This makes them significantly different from other congressional oversight committees, which are often spurred into action by the work of investigative journalists and watchdog organizations.
The Wall Street Journal notes that the announcement spurred a rally Wednesday in longer-term Treasurys, the supply of which would be reduced if the buy-back happens.