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  • The Nuclear Posture Review proposes that we consider a series of options that extend presidential decision-making time, by strengthening command and control apparatus around those nuclear weapons, and that we open discussions with Russia to reduce the possibility of either an accidental launch or a false detection of a launch.

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  • This can be accomplished by expanding independent pledges of humanitarian aid, enhancing participation in the existing U.N. relief and security apparatus, increasing high-level diplomatic contacts and implementing a comprehensive economic stimulation package which includes low-cost loans, grants, infrastructure development and corporate partnerships.

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  • We imagine Steve Jobs designing, engineering, optimizing, manufacturing, delivering, marketing and selling the iPhone instead of seeing the vast and complex apparatus of Apple production.

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  • But with a July 11 deadline to submit petitions to enter the race for the Sept. 10 primary, it could be tough to put together a campaign and fundraising apparatus.

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  • "This exhibition is a must see for those wanting to get close to the cream of this field, "says Laurence Fisher, Director of the Mechanical Music and Technical Apparatus Department at Bonhams Auctioneers.

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  • Mr. Yeltsin -- and the Russian military-industrial complex and security apparatus to which he is increasingly beholden -- have asserted that the repeal of statutes derided as the "legacy of the Cold War" is a litmus test of the U.S. commitment to Russian reform.

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  • Mr Ahmadinejad's populism still wins admirers and gets the backing of the hawkish security apparatus and the courts.

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  • Zayyat has often served as an emissary between the Islamists and the security apparatus, a role that makes him both universally distrusted and invaluable.

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  • There are credible reports that there are significant numbers of Venezuelan military and governmental advisers in Bolivia and that the intelligence apparatus is being advised by Havana and Caracas.

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  • It constitutes impressing private citizens into the federal police apparatus and imposing a hidden tax on businesses.

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  • It said a tent erected at Manor Lane, Sealand, was "standard" apparatus and no further information was available.

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  • But they were so energetic that they immediately bumped into the walls of the experimental apparatus and were annihilated.

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  • It will be Mr Blair, not the CIA director, who oversees the entire intelligence apparatus and who briefs the president.

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  • In the team format at worlds, a country may only enter three gymnasts per apparatus and all three athletes' scores count.

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  • Ms. PRIEST: He was quite passionate in his interview with me about what he thought of Washington and this huge apparatus.

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  • It was more like an acrobatic show, with the collapsed bridge as an apparatus and without any safety device at all.

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  • Orozco, who was 14 at the time, went on to win the junior all-around title and claimed five apparatus medals, including three golds.

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  • The fire service now issues cutters with breathing apparatus and has taken steps to reduce the risk of cabling becoming trapped in the kit.

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  • That has much to do with Palin's own rise from governor of Alaska to vice presidential candidate in 2008, and the funding apparatus she has established.

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  • The institutionalist gave way to the free agent, who controlled his own fund-raising apparatus and media presence, and whose electoral base was a patchwork of single-issue groups.

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  • Grover Norquist is an anti-tax evangelist whose special interest group, Americans for Tax Reform, has all but captured the tax and revenue policy apparatus of the Republican Party.

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  • Among its innovations: a sensor that warns firefighters of an impending building collapse, lighter breathing apparatus and a computer chip that monitors firefighters' vital signs inside a burning building.

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  • The U.S. is also well ahead of most other countries in moving both its security apparatus and commercial economy onto the Internet, which was not designed with security in mind.

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  • Iraq now has become -- reliant completely on its own security apparatus and internal security as a result of the expertise that it gained during the confrontations and the training and the equipping.

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  • The protocol sets binding greenhouse gas limits on 38 industrialized nations and sets up apparatus such as "emissions trading, " in which a country having trouble meeting its requirements can buy credits from others that exceed them.

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  • We do know that in the event that there is something wrong with the pressurization, we do have a containment apparatus and architecture in place -- albeit it would take some time to get those boats moved back and everything hooked up.

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  • Todd Gray, chairman and president of Autonomous ID, said this new CMU lab gives his company the needed research and development boost to field trial the primary identity apparatus dubbed BioSole and its cloud connected automation suite governing the access and use of controlled resources.

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  • The timely formation of the government will make it possible to avoid uncertainty in the structures of federal executive authority and consequently to support the state apparatus's ability to work and preserve the speed set for reforms, including within the framework of administrative reform that has begun.

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  • Compared to the early polar explorers of the 1900s, Fiennes's team will benefit from some innovative equipment, including boots with electrically-heated insoles, battery-powered heated clothing, radar to spot dangerous crevasse fields and a specially designed breathing apparatus to enable them to survive at temperatures that will regularly reach -70 degrees Celsius and perhaps even lower.

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