• Doing so has the double advantage of permitting the damage increased taxes and a deeper recession would inflict upon the economy to be avoided while maintaining a relatively robust defense establishment a national asset that should be adjusted, if at all, with care so long as the international environment remains as uncertain and potentially explosive as it is at present.

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  • Doing so has the double advantage of permitting the damage increased taxes and a deeper recession would inflict upon the economy to be avoided while maintaining a relatively robust defense establishment -- a national asset that should be adjusted, if at all, with care so long as the international environment remains as uncertain and potentially explosive as it is at present.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

  • The Human Genome Project he helped to launch decades later is an ambitious project to discover the identity and order of every one of the three billion or so key components of the double helix.

    BBC: DNA pioneer is honoured

  • "People with lung disease, particularly asthmatics should keep an eye on ozone forecasts on Ceefax and in the papers so they can double their inhalers if the levels are likely to be high, " he said.

    BBC: Image of air pollution

  • So it has the double effect of being both socially relevant and also better stimulus.

    NPR: Comparing White House, Democratic Stimulus Plans

  • In 1986 Congress changed the law so that the IRS could collect double taxes in this situation.

    FORBES: The Tribe and the Television Stations

  • But the rules on what is "valid" are so strict that the reality is double that.

    BBC: US election: The third-party candidates

  • Remember the Chinese fable of the mighty emperor who agreed to give a wily supplicant one grain of rice for the first square on a chess board, double that for the second square, double again for the third and so on, before he realised that he would be giving away his whole kingdom's supply before the board was half-finished.

    ECONOMIST: Eventually, bigger means different

  • Miss O'Sullivan's swimming was a gentle breast-stroke, so a double did the nude scene.

    ECONOMIST: Maureen O��Sullivan

  • Will slow growth deteriorate into another recession, the so-called double-dip scenario?

    FORBES: The Chances Of A Double Dip

  • The sweet potato is sub-Saharan Africa's first genetically modified crop, and its yields so far are double that of the regular plant.

    FORBES: Millions Served

  • Moreover, more than 15% of the payments were unlawfully double-charged, so that both the recipient and the sender had to pay.

    ECONOMIST: Borders and barriers

  • One industry, health care, continued to add jobs even during the 2008-2009 downturn and is doing so again during the beginning of a possible double dip.

    FORBES: How To Get An $80,000 Job In Health Care Without A College Degree

  • In fact the Air Force is so pleased with the project that it hopes to double the power it gets from solar in the near future.

    FORBES: The New Military War Against Climate Change

  • There are also less obvious tourist sites, such as the so-called 'double decker' highway, packed with rush-hour traffic.

    WSJ: A Historical Tour Shows Off Johannesburg's Present-Day Sights

  • Alternatively, it could be that no one has been looking for two layers, so they have not seen the double signature or have ignored its significance.

    ECONOMIST: Mass extinctions

  • So I ask the Congress to double Federal support for critical basic research in the physical sciences and ensure America remains the most dynamic nation on earth.

    NPR: Text of Bush's State of the Union Address

  • The 1.4m job cuts announced so far in 2001 are more than double the number for the whole of 2000.

    ECONOMIST: American retailers

  • The UK has arguably exacerbated its own problem by cutting public investment in infrastructure at the same time as private demand was so low, creating a double-whammy on the industry.

    BBC: Business

  • Officials are confident that once the expansion plan is complete it will double the capacity of the port so that it can host at least 12 container vessels at any given time.

    BBC: Bangladesh pins hope on Chittagong port

  • And if sense and antisense should meet, the resulting double-stranded molecule no longer works, so the protein the sense strand encodes is not made any more.

    ECONOMIST: How to create lots of drugs at once

  • Finishing last was South Africa, a team that included Oscar Pistorius, the so-called blade runner who during these games became the first double amputee to compete in the Olympics.

    WSJ: Menu

  • So far players taking on the digital double of Tony Blair are out-fragging the opposition leaders.

    BBC: Web pokes fun at politics

  • So restoring differentials would roughly double the direct cost of the minimum wage.

    ECONOMIST: The minimum wage

  • Stokes was delighted with his double but more so the three points that keep Celtic five points clear of holders Rangers at the top of the Scottish Premier League.

    BBC: No halt to Celtic striker search

  • You get a low tax rate and you get rid of corrupt loopholes, but you also get rid of double taxation so that the IRS only gets one bit at the apple.

    FORBES: The Perverse Impact Of Double Taxation: A Helpful Flow Chart

  • Over the next five years or so, the volume of European corporate bonds is expected to double, and that of equities to triple as governments cut public-pension provisions, and investors seek higher returns.

    ECONOMIST: European settlement systems

  • On Sunday, he beat Stephen Hendry 10-6 to win the UK Championship and in doing so became the ninth player to do the UK and world double.

    BBC: Peter Ebdon

  • Given the size of Goldman's historic bonus pools, the value of these shares would certainly run to tens of millions of pounds, and probably to hundreds of millions of pounds, so the tax saving would not be trivial - perhaps double digit millions of pounds (Goldman won't confirm the quantum).

    BBC: The going rate for Goldman

  • So the city pulled that design off the streets in 2011, leaving regular double-decker buses in service and shipping the bendys off to other cities in the United Kingdom that have more spacious streets.

    BBC: London's iconic buses are back

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