• Though much could change down the line, Sykes told a gaggle of reporters at the Television Critics Association's semi-annual TV confab on Wednesday that she has neither the time nor the interest in expanding her weekly series to a daily one right now.

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  • The solution he proposes shows how much quotas could change Brazilians' sense of who they are: in doubtful cases a commission would verify students' racial identity, overthrowing the idea that a person's race is what he says it is.

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  • Look at what was happening at Katrina in the first 72 hours, that once you got past that point, there was not much more you could do to change that outcome, and then things were just cascading one on top of the other.

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  • Alternatively, change could come much more abruptly, perhaps violently, as foreshadowed by an alleged assassination attempt on Turkmenistan's president last November.

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  • Change could go much further.

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  • But the latest shivers making their way through the economy could very well change how much that is, at least in some places.

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  • That prosperity did not change us as much as education could: there lies the true misery of it.

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  • She said the surgery afforded him a much better quality of life and thinks this could change things for future generations.

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  • Some industry insiders suspect discounting like this on a such a wide scale could fundamentally change shopping behavior, much like Walmart changed promotional activity with EDLP or the internet is changing our ability to always compare pirces.

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  • "There has been much emphasis on drug education and treatment but not as much emphasis on alcohol misuse, which could signal a change in norms and explain the increase in the prevalence of drinkers, " he says.

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  • The day after the reform package was announced, the head of Ofqual wrote to Mr Gove warning that introducing too much change at one time might mean the regulator could not guarantee the quality of the exams.

    BBC: Q&A: Changes to the teaching of key subjects

  • But China's current account was already in surplus when the investment slowdown started, and is rising faster than it did a decade ago, so if and when the effects feed through to consumption, the change in the current account could be much bigger than last time.

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  • Yet, much as Iraqis loathe their circumstances, the fear of change could be even stronger, especially of change brought by yet another war.

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  • Though some had hoped that the hundreds of thousands of protesters who have flooded the streets of Iran over the past week might have forced him to change his mind, he could not have taken a much harder line.

    ECONOMIST: Iran's upheaval

  • "Investments in geo-engineering research are almost certainly the biggest bang for the buck that one could get in terms of addressing catastrophic climate change - a much, much bigger return than, for example, trying to control carbon emissions at the moment, " he says.

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  • Or, they could decide not to change their power consumption ways and pay a much bigger bill.

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  • If successful, it could drastically change the smartphone landscape and make an iWatch much less appealing.

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  • This corresponds to a place where the gravitational pulls of Mars and Jupiter have conspired to change the orbits of any asteroids much faster than the Yarkovsky effect could manage alone.

    ECONOMIST: Asteroid impacts

  • If this ever turned into open hostilities, the consequences could be devastating which is why, however much outside powers want regime change in North Korea, they are right to fear civil war still more.

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  • In countries such as Malaysia, Thailand or Indonesia this could prove salutary, if it unseats old and complacent politicians and forces much-needed change.

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  • Even if Russia could get that warm-water port it is supposed to want, nothing much would change: it would still be cold and flat and depressing to be a Russian.

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  • Previous generations of leaders could at least count on a reasonably stable world, where change unfolded at a much slower pace.

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  • Such a change, he says, could include the restructuring of Iraq into "a much looser confederation" than the Bush administration originally envisioned.

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  • The fact that a 0.1% contraction could be revised upwards to no change, thus eliminating the dip entirely, says much about its real size or impact in economic terms.

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  • And he posits that Nokia could incorporate a cheaper form of WiFi connectivity, though he does not assess how much money that change would save.

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  • The enemy human AI is pretty tame which is also unfortunate since humans could have been a nice change of pace from space zombies, some of which have much better AI than their human counterparts.

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  • If this were to change, and the Earth became unstable, then parts of the world could experience much greater temperature swings than we are used to through any given year, with freezing Arctic temperatures in winter followed by blazing hot temperatures in summer.

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  • There is now so much money in venture-capital funds that promising upstarts can spend whatever they want although that could change if the economy went into recession or the stockmarket tanked.

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  • Accordingly, the time is past due to take a more serious inventory of financial measures that could be brought to bear to hobble these regimes and change their cost-benefit calculations, much as happened with Libya.

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  • You can't do much other than control the camera and change from day to night but the graphics are certainly impressive -- much better than the Wii could manage.

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