• Gurgaon, a business district near Delhi, has plenty of glass towers but falls short on sewerage and power supplies and is only slowly acquiring public transport.

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  • She stops short of advocating the return of Glass-Steagall, the New Deal law that broke up the banks and cleaved them from their speculative trading operations.

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  • If there is anything funky about your place setting or your food short of visible shards of broken glass, or the possibility of anaphylactic shock you will want to keep it to yourself.

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  • In short, many fret that getting rid of Glass-Steagall, though good for financial firms, will be less good for those that use them.

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  • Post pampering, compare notes with other hardcore skiers at the Argenta Pub over a pint of beer or glass of wine before slipping on snowshoes for a short trek through a lantern-lit forest to The Yurt, where you can treat yourself to a five-course meal, prepared right before your eyes by a private chef.

    BBC: Daily deal: Two nights at Solitude Mountain

  • In Verbier where Concrete is designing W's first ski hotel, set to open later this year the firm connects the separate chalet-bound living and sleeping areas with transitional and scenic glass spaces, turning a trip to the bedroom into a short mountain hike.

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  • At the observation post, situated just a short distance from the actual demarcation line, security personnel had installed a bulletproof glass screen to protect the president as he surveyed the border region.

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  • This can be a problem even in the best universities: students feel short-changed by professors fixated on crawling along the frontiers of knowledge with a magnifying glass.

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  • In addition to seeing and barely believing the animals so up- close, an Endeavor expedition offers long and short hikes, coastal explorations by kayaks or Zodiacs, swimming, snorkeling, or floating in a glass bottom boat for amazing undersea viewing.

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  • The truth is that even the harshest of the proposals would be far short of the regulations that were in effect, and working very well, right up to the 1999 repeal of Glass Steagall.

    FORBES: Bringing Back Glass-Steagall Would Rebuild Shattered Confidence In Wall Street

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