The deal requires compensation to be paid to ACP banana producers amounting to up to 200m, known as the Banana Adjustment Measures (BAMs).

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These purchases would in turn aim to improve sentiment in bond markets and buy some time to allow fiscal adjustment measures to work and the eurozone to demonstrate that the fiscal compact is meaningful.

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PdL supporters have been drifting away from the party since May when the government performed an abrupt U-turn, declaring that a package of painful adjustment measures was needed to prevent Italy going the way of Greece.

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Education policy needs to aggressively adopt the same kind of risk adjustment measures, if we hope to identify which high schools are truly doing the best job of educating their students and preparing them for the future.

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As was pointed out recently in the Nihon Keizai Shimbun by Koizumi-government economics minister Takenaka Heizo, what is missing in the proposal is any adjustment in pension benefits or other measures to manage its costs.

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Currently, health care systems focus primarily on chronic ill health, rather than the preventative measures of living a healthy lifestyle, but this may be the adjustment that both the health care system and insurance companies make as a result of digital health devices.

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The inflation-adjusted rate which is set by a formula that measures inflation over defined consecutive six-month periods (the current inflation adjustment is 4.6%).

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He measures and analyzes motions like swim strokes or volleyball spikes in fine detail, looking for that one adjustment that can mean the difference between silver and gold.

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