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But he noted unapologetically that "this club was a flagship for Catalonia under dictatorship, and many Catalan symbols survived here".Mr Perez Farguell does not think that Barcelona FC should follow other big European clubs, such as Manchester United and Juventus of Turin, in floating itself on the stockmarket.

Commissioned in 1943, the New Jersey is the only one of the four Iowa-class ships to have served in four conflicts: World War II, where she participated in the assault on Iwo Jima and was a flagship for Adm. William F. Halsey Jr.; Korea Vietnamm, and, in 1983, Lebanon.

The new building in New York was to be a flagship for an often overlooked field, but the debt payments on the bonds were significant, about $3 million a year.

Today Vinamilk is a flagship for the government's huge programme of "equitising" state firms, and most of its shares are privately held.

In numerical terms, one of the biggest winners was the new Factory arts venue in Manchester, which will receive £9m a year and be a "flagship" for the area.

"It seemed hypocritical to be standing up and saying, 'Here we are, a flagship for the Big Society,' at the same time as we were having to make cuts whose impact is going to have a devastating effect on our voluntary sector," Paul Brant, deputy leader of the Liverpool City Council, said in an interview.

"This is designed to be a flagship for a new brand," Morrissey says.

It will be a flagship for the Hilton company's top hotel brand, said Christopher Nassetta, chief executive of Hilton Worldwide.

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