The third basic type of gold standard could be called the Bretton Woods system (after the monetary system that was used from 1948 to 1971).

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Europe and Japan shared a basic commitment to the type of world order that Americans wanted, and so a more cooperative approach to key policy questions enlisted the support of rich and powerful allies for efforts that tallied pretty closely with key long-term American goals.

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The more ubiquitous this type of enforced bonhomie becomes, the more obvious its basic insincerity and falseness also becomes.

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The new Dundee centre would be given the task of taking research from the lab bench to the bedside, "translating" basic science in the laboratory into better treatment for patients with Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes.

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In a disease where the cause and risk factors are unknown, this type of competition is probably the best way to find some basic insights.

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There were also several gesture-controlled models, but one wasn't working and the other was hosting a very basic Kinect-type game.

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Mr da Silva could, of course, have avoided all of this tension if he and other candidates had followed the advice of Pedro Malan, the current finance minister, who proposed a pre-campaign agreement on basic economic policies that would be maintained to prevent the type of attack that the real has suffered.

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The most bare-boned type of account is zero-interest basic checking.

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You're left with a boring, basic, budget game whose best feature is the ability to choose the type of soundtrack you favor.

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The basic difficulty is that within the EU there is a minimum VAT (think a type of sales tax) rate.

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