• The money is raised and spent in a grouping of as small as 10, 000 people.

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  • He is instead keen on a grouping of the big five, adding Britain, Italy and Spain.

    ECONOMIST: Franco-German relations

  • The ruling Democratic Convention, which shares power with two other parties, is itself a grouping of several parties.

    ECONOMIST: Romania

  • Construction is underway, for example, on the World, a grouping of 300 man-made islands shaped to resemble the earth.

    ECONOMIST: Business travel

  • The Climate Vulnerable Forum, a grouping of some 20 countries, has released a report on the likely future costs of climate change.

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  • The UK's economic power also means it is a member of the Group of 8 countries (G8), originally a grouping of the world's seven richest industrial democracies.

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  • The chief architects of Tuesday's rallies in Egypt are members of the National Association for Change, a grouping of opposition movements that Mr. ElBaradei assembled around him last summer.

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  • You buy the right to display a grouping of words in front of your eyes for your private use with the aid of an electronic display device approved by Amazon.

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  • Both countries are members of the Shanghai Co-operation Organisation, a grouping of Central Asian nations that both China and Russia have been nurturing (with limited success) as a counterbalance to America's influence in the region.

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  • Sonically, this treatment of America comes across via a grouping of pedal steel guitars (instead of the usual string section), banging titanium and steel sculptures, and organizing "a who's who of drummers" in a 12-member drum circle, including Jason Bonham, Sheila E. and Pharrell Williams.

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  • The Northern Alliance, the main victors in Afghanistan and the new masters of Kabul, are a loose grouping of militias drawn mainly from ethnic minorities.

    ECONOMIST: Special report

  • More than a decade after the war, Diciembre still functioned as a loose grouping of actors and actresses who occasionally put on a show, often in a private home, to which the audience came by invitation only.

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  • But the two rejectionist votes are forcing Europe to confront the dilemma of what it wants to be: a tightly integrated super-state in waiting or a looser grouping of nation-states.

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  • Formed in 1989, APEC is a loose grouping of nations on both sides of the Pacific.

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  • So it's sort of a more eclectic grouping of films than we've had in most years.

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  • They're a subset of a grouping called complementary currencies, which also includes airline frequent-flier programs.

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  • You have a huge grouping of consumer data, so you can micro-target messages to common groups, finding pleasure points and anger points on issues.

    NEWYORKER: On the Bus

  • The uniquely Islamic religious character witnessed in the 'city of dead', is a consequence of the grouping of princes' and rulers' mausoleums close to the tombs and khanqahs (hermitages) of saints revered by them.

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  • The PMBD, a wily grouping of regional barons that is the PT's main partner, will probably try to take advantage of her inexperience to satisfy its appetite for pork and spendthrift ministries, even though it lost seats in the election.

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  • As my eyes adjusted, I realized that this seemingly solid carpet of green was actually a large, dense grouping of water hyacinth, throbbing with electric blue and crimson dragonflies, spindly mottled spiders and monstrous ants.

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  • And Amazon is grouping a bunch of sale TVs together under the header of Cyber Monday.

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  • Such friendships are fleeting: on a whim a party leader can shift the votes of a caste grouping from one alliance to another.

    ECONOMIST: India

  • You might speculate (correctly) that the likelihood of the region ever putting a grouping like this together again -- of engaging the three Chinese economies, for example -- is next to zero.

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  • This is short of the 189 signatures needed to force extra scrutiny of a grouping.

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  • The Fresh Start group of Tory MPs has published a long list of powers they want repatriated back to the UK. A new pro-European grouping called the Centre of British Influence Through Europe has been established.

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  • Autonomy (nasdaq: AUTN - news - people) already makes search engines that execute the kind of searches DolphinSearch is advertising, grouping documents by topic using a sense of context and perspective.

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  • Moreover, it also helps one to understand where lasting change is likely to originate: not from the occasional activity of a cross-spectrum grouping, but from the sustained, persistent, targeted, and strategic activity of one.

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  • Such considerations may have prompted Thailand's new foreign minister, Mr. Kasem Kasemsri, to suggest that the grouping set up a kind of regional parliament.

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  • Whereas previously the organising principle of such a grouping would have demanded that the work itself be related, by either technique or philosophy, now it is enough that the people socialise.

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  • To further mix things up, each grouping includes a wide number of wine options, and it is not unusual for the sommelier to offer two different people at the same table having the same dish two different wines.

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