While he said he had no reservations about adopting the target, Mr. Shirakawa warned against any belief that the central bank has sway over people's price expectations, a core element of reflationist thinking.

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They have become a core element of the Republican base, but for months some Republicans have feared they would be underenthused by the candidacy of Mr. Romney because of suspicions about his Mormon religion.

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Autodesk was attracted to the playground project because of its proximity to the firm's downtown offices, its focus on children and its ecologically sustainable design, which is a core element of Autodesk's business, says Greg Eden, a spokesman for the company.

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"Our vision is that one of these plants would be the core element of a community energy center" that could provide a local, sustainable source of both transportation and heating fuel.

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For one thing, the core element of Linux is distributed under a general public license maintained by the Free Software Foundation.

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Because social democrats are loth to offend the unions that provide the core of their support, their job-creation programmes still contain a big element of old-fashioned nannying.

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Gaga has not abandoned the core element of her craft the steady thump of Euro disco, a beat accessible to people who are older than the misfit club kids who find religion at her live shows.

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