Yet it has proved a perennial source of acrimony, and not just because so much of it is misspent (see article).
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They can raise prices only so much without decreasing sales, and many have already done so because of higher operating costs, such as commodity and gas prices and health-care premiums.
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And it's hard because you get in the middle of a project--and this is our busy time because of so many researchers coming up to do global climate research.
Unlike in 2000 and 2004 this does not matter so much this time because of the "front loading" of so many other primaries and caucases.
The industry is not as competitive as it might seem, in part because of consumer inertia, in part because many of its terms and conditions are so hard to understand.
The market had priced such companies as if they might go out of business because plenty of information suggested that was a possibility, and because fear was then so pervasive that optimism felt almost like a form of irrationality.
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Not so much because of all the social and technology shifts since then, but because that year is so close to the high-water mark of U.S. predominance as the only great power to come out of World War II more or less intact.
And it was before he was a senator, he was always a big supporter and admirer of Gandhi, because Gandhi inspired so many people -- in India and all around the world -- with his example of dignity and tolerance and peace.
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Poorly constructed ones contribute to a nexus of problems: the spread of disease (because they have no proper sanitation or ventilation), the perpetuation of poverty (because children have no proper lights to study by) and the general sense of insecurity (because they are so flimsy and flammable).
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For years, journalism education in the U.S. aspired towards the empirical certainties of social science, and it did so because the expansion of university education demanded that nontraditional subjects genuflect to the power of scientific enquiry.
It is hard to predict the extent to which new mines and production facilities will come on stream because of higher prices and so increase the supply of metals, or how long it will take for that to happen.
The most successful banks, like the best football clubs, manage to keep a bigger share of revenues, partly because there is so much more of it and partly because they are able to offer prestige as well as money.
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And so because of that, it appears that what he's talking about is something that he has lived and that something that he espouses to be.
Northern countries like Germany, Finland, Denmark and company are now determined to take a hardline approach, and they do so because of bailout fatigue from their voters.
And because so many of these projects are being managed well -- and I want to thank the team that's been working so hard out here -- these projects are coming in, on average, 10 to 20 percent under budget.
You have to cut spending and investing, because so much of your income must be used to pay for things that have already been produced and consumed.
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The cost of making hard drives has dropped and is continuing to do so because of improved technologies so they are proving to be more cost-effective than other forms of memory, he added.
And do you think the world is becoming a more dangerous place because of these changes and if so who is the primary enemy, is it Al Queda or is it wider than that?
But because the industry is so new, and because many of the innovators are small companies, they are unlikely to find finance available from traditional sources such as banks.
Partly because there are so many of them and partly because we no longer believe wholeheartedly in the enormous energy of capital and business as a redeeming feature of our lives.
Many people think employers should not be in the business of providing health insurance coverage anyway because of the added layer of complexity and cost, so this might be a good thing.
And he had shown me an Aztec poem, and Aztec poetry is all about this conflict that the heart goes through because of loving life and finding life so beautiful and yet knowing that we are - that we are not immortal.
"I think because skateboarding's so young and because the athletes are so uneducated as far as how much of a favor they're doing these corporate sponsors that they're stoked to get what they get, " MacDonald says.
And because of all of you, so many people are now blessed with hope.
They succeeded, and continue to do so because of their tenacity.
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But it has usually been made as a cultural argument: that Europeans decided to shun Turkey because of religion and so Turkey turned culturally, religiously, towards its Eastern neighbors.
Labour whip Lord Bassam tweeted as much - accusing the Work and Pensions Minister Lord Freud of delaying tactics. (Incidentally, given the age profile of their lordships, percentage turnout can be a little misleading - there are always some who can't register their vote because of illness and so forth).
The industry is one of several spared the early rigours of the single market, because the social and economic consequences of liberalisation were so great.
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