Mr Gore wants to stand out as the man who can sustain the high-tech boom, and at the same time devise measures that protect the weak from technology's more alarming consequences.

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One would allow national supervisors to give company boards the right to devise defensive measures to deter predators, without first obtaining shareholder approval.

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Beijing is entirely within its rights to influence, manipulate, rig or fix currency values, and it is unlikely that Washington can devise retaliatory measures that are not themselves violations of America's trade commitments, especially those spelled out in the rules of the World Trade Organization.

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The Central Bank and the Finance Ministry joined forces earlier this week to devise two new measures and amendments to the Constitution to keep the Brazilian real from strengthening too much against the dollar.

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Their aim is to devise a tool that measures the attention of students, taking into account how they rate the class and how alert they are.

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