Thus Advantage will become the only entitlement for which real spending will fall slightly year over year and continue to decline, even as health costs rise and more people join the program.

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After all, Agnelli helped turn Vale into a global competitor over the last ten years and only recently started to butt heads and fall out of favor with senior Brazilian politicians.

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That leaves only filling the crown, presenting it to the guests and then hearing the same hush fall over the room that I remember from that wintry English Christmas so long ago.

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Virtually the only tangible help Pakistan has provided to us since the fall of the Taliban is arresting and handing over to the U.S. an estimated 600 Al Qaeda members, the vast majority of them small fry.

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And despite all this development, the number of people living without electricity in their homes will have only fallen over the next two decades from 1.3bn to 1bn, with no fall in the number of people - 2.6bn - reckoned to have no clean cooking facilities.

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The only outsiders happy with the new regime are the foreign mining companies, which fall over each other to ingratiate themselves with ministers and officials.

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In fact, he's so set on laboring over his content-to-come, he only has one new scripted offering to share this fall: Life on Mars, a crime drama about a cop who wakes up some 30 years in the past.

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