Kelly struggled to find studies that could conclusively say whether or not private equity firms create jobs, but the mere act of researching such a thing strikes this reader as pointless.
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It could be a horrible thing, like an act of violence or a disfiguring disease.
Because while there is no law or set of laws that can prevent every senseless act of violence completely, no piece of legislation that will prevent every tragedy, every act of evil, if there is even one thing we can do to reduce this violence, if there is even one life that can be saved, then we've got an obligation to try.
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When the Tax Reform Act of 1986 was enacted, I was all over that thing.
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The thing that Jobs did a terrible job of in Act I and Act II of his career was manage talent.
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Though "Falling Slowly" won a Best Original Song Oscar in 2008, it is, like the other numbers in "Once, " forgettably innocuous, the sort of thing you might expect to hear sung by the opening act in a downtown club.
Here is the thing: the Bank of England would only be prepared to act as the provider of loans to Scottish banks in a crisis if it was in charge of regulating and supervising these banks, as at present.
At a federal level, the one thing that could be done is to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act.
For me at least, the act of committing and going out and doing it turned out to be a really important thing.
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The Senate, in an admirable show of bipartisanship, came together to pass the STOCK Act, because it was the right thing to do.
After all, while what is said will be broadcast to the world, the actual act of writing a tweet or making a YouTube video can be a very solitary, private thing.
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He didn't even seem to grasp the details of the 2011 Budget Control Act that contains the infamous sequester and will be the very thing he'll need to wrestle with immediately if confirmed.
Instead of the grand five-act play structure of previous tomes, we have a series of chapters that essentially say the same thing about different topics.
To help make college more affordable, the first thing Congress can do is to pass a comprehensive reauthorization of the Higher Education Act that includes key reforms to address rising costs, protect student borrowers and improve critical programs.
Capable of being applied to soldiers and vehicles alike, this could make the real act of soldiering a whole lot more like a video game (minus the whole "infinite respawn" thing), with HUDs showing you how much "shield" you have left.
The best thing this chancellor of the exchequer did and most likely ever will do was his very first act as finance minister: he gave the Bank of England a huge piece of his job, in the form of operational control of monetary policy.
"If the individual decides to take the training individually and then gets motivated or does an act on his own, you cannot level that as a collective thing from Pakistan, or say that any sort of help is being given to them, " he said.
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