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In practice, the ECB is already playing a central role in dealing with failing banks because the ECB Governing Council must make decisions about whether to provide liquidity to these banks against eligible collateral or, as has become fairly common, in the form of Emergency Liquidity Assistance.
FORBES: Euro Area Banking Union: Should Bank Supervision and Monetary Policy Be Separated?
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Mr. DAVID SOBEL (Electronic Privacy Information Center): This has now become fairly routine within the Department of Homeland Security.
NPR: Privacy Groups Sound Warning on Homeland Security Database
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Unfortunately, this has become a fairly common news story.
FORBES: Protecting Yourself From Online Hackers
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Politically, it has become an open and fairly tolerant liberal democracy, in sharp contrast with the repressive regimes to its north and west.
ECONOMIST: The rewards of freedom
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The Chinese yuan has been undervalued for the past few years according to the Big Mac Index, but it has now improved to become fairly valued.
FORBES: The Big Mac Index and Currency ETFs
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What should be a fairly straightforward transfer has become a documentation nightmare that serves almost no productive purpose and requires a month or more of staff time gathering signatures and filing forms.
FORBES: New Rules For Wall Street Play Havoc On Main Street
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Unlike Kurdistan, which is fairly peaceful, Kirkuk has become a hot spot for attacks by various Iraqi factions.
NPR: Autonomy, Oil Money Underlie Kurdish Goals in Iraq
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Still, at least in loan-participation funds, the market has become more active in recent years so valuations are fairly legitimate, said Gondor.
FORBES: Magazine Article
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Germany's has become less so in recent years, and these days fairly few big mergers are blocked by politicians who think they know better.
ECONOMIST: European mergers: The politicians’ sticky fingers | The
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Some predicted an unremarkable and fairly short tenure, but three years later, Mr. Gates has become one of the most powerful defense chiefs in decades.
WSJ: Gates Says Taliban Have Momentum in Afghanistan
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As a result, radical politics has become largely single-issue politics (Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth thrive) or else sectarian and fairly dotty.
ECONOMIST: Radical protest