Given that the chancellor's avowed aim is to help the poor, the better-off will have to pay.

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Indeed, it was this close shave that inspired the Colorados and the National Party (known as the Blancos), to introduce a run-off this year, with the declared aim of keeping the Front out.

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They provide 20 to 25MB of space at no cost, but they also stick their ads on each of your Web pages--acceptable if all you aim to do is show off pictures of your new kid, for instance.

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In simpler terms, the aim was to build a credit card base by handing out more cards while making sure that charge-off figures are kept as low as possible.

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Such projects will throw off huge amounts of data, and one aim of the institute is to develop the large-scale database management tools required to synthesize and use all that information.

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One aim of the reorganisation at UBS is to stop its investment-banking arm from funding itself with inexpensive capital thrown off by the wealth-management arm.

ECONOMIST: Bank strategies

The table even takes aim at the aforementioned bounce-back patent with a technology called TableCloth, which bounces back images that are pulled off screen.

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Two back-to-back humps plague racers, who must decide whether to absorb both or aim to clear the second by taking off on the first.

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