• Obviously in the bipartisan meeting last -- it all sort of blurs together -- I guess it was last Tuesday, this was extensively discussed.

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  • And in terms of talking about months -- this sort of follows up on the last question -- but is that going to come at the end of the congressional budget process, which could be as late as post-October?

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  • As with the decisions he has already made to cancel the other services' top procurement priorities, such programmatic cuts condemn the military to the sort of "hollowing-out" last seen in the Clinton and Carter administrations.

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  • Since the activities of, sort of, mid-September of last year and where we find ourselves in the past 10 weeks is the desire -- and I've spoken about it a lot -- of the desire to ensure that we have a real sense of -- for these financial institutions -- what we're dealing with.

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  • KBB.com asked visitors to its car-shopping website last week what sort of shifter they preferred.

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  • Last month he did - sort of.

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  • The Sky Blues, who are now winless in six games, almost extended their lead in injury-time when a raking Eastwood pass from the left sent Best through on goal but Dean Moxey made a sensational last-ditch covering challenge when any sort of foul would have resulted in a red card.

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  • "I don't think it's particularly helpful to portray this as some that we've sort of thrown this out as an election year, last-minute change of strategy when we've seen, the last couple of months, a dramatic shift in the amount of sectarian violence, " he says.

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  • Medtronic, a medical-device maker, began offering its employees this sort of plan, along with more conventional managed-care coverage, last year.

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  • After correctly predicting last year that FIFA would implement some sort of goal-line technology, he blew it with a suggestion that Arsenal would win a trophy.

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  • The argument that economics growth, or at least the 2-3% per annum sort of growth that has characterised the last couple of centuries, is over is explored here at FT Alphaville.

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  • But the complicating factor in all this is the Health Minister's statement to the effect that in the last resort, families would wield some sort of veto - but based on what?

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  • We want a much fairer system so that people pay more according to their incomes for our public services, not the sort of taxes through the back-door which Labour have introduced during the last four years.

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  • Given his 6-foot-6, 250-pound frame, forward Chane Behanan looks like the sort of kid who ate every last leaf of spinach on his dinner plate growing up.

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  • One of the more original and unexpected films of its sort to come out in the last several years, the supporting characters are a never-ending stream of odd segues and lifestyles.

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  • Second, the country has the sort of riches that America had at the turn of the last century but not its built-in awe of entrepreneurship.

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  • Polish ministers say they have at last woken up to the need to move faster, sort out their creaking public-procurement system and generally play the EU game.

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  • Yet the fierceness of the storytelling exerts an unbroken grip, and there is leavening, of a sort, from Michael Caine, who plays a joint-puffing hippie in the woods the last happy man in the world.

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  • The Japanese car company is famous for touting that 80 percent of its Corollas sold over the last two decades are still on the road - the Swift is designed with that sort of longevity in mind.

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  • When we hear the door of the very last bookstore slam shut with the same sort of "sickening smack" that announced the chopping of the last Truffula tree, will the Once-lers of the digital world regret their destruction of the old literary habitat?

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  • Interestingly, an incident of this sort occurred near the end of last year when Prime Minister Kaifu made public reference to a possible assistance-for-islands deal with the USSR only to have the notion walked back by the Ministries of Finance and Foreign Affairs.

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  • When athletes are unable to control what they do with their genitals, the status quo protecting story becomes either boys-will-be-boys or some sort of pathology or addiction (BTW, congrats to Tiger for his Torrey Pines win last weekend).

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  • After the last quarterly figures, if you look at sort of six months, the economy has been flat-lining pretty much, unemployment high, and a lot of people are saying it's inevitably, inevitably going to rise further this year.

    BBC: Transcript of George Osborne interview

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