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Mere weeks before a Democratic takeover of the House, the GOP majority has finally scheduled a hearing to debate the idea of hiking the federal wage floor from $7.25 per hour.

For Goldman Sachs, which is among the most respected banks in equities trading and advising on takeovers, FICC accounted for a mere 17% of its revenue in 1998, but a decade later it had become its largest and most profitable business, making up 35% of its revenues.Escalating debt and the expansion of bank balance-sheets have played a part in this, but so has complexity.

It now has a mere 23% of the domestic market, compared with Jet's 32% share, which will rise to 43% when it completes a takeover of Air Sahara.

A mere question of style?

A mere suggestion of a hat, really.

A mere 5% of directors were women.

Art is a mere imitation of life.

Space is a mere absence of entity.

Green Dot serves a mere 2% to 4% of them.

Each is a mere hunk of wood, and no mere hunk of wood is a desk.

This analysis is not a mere compilation of existing LEMs.