And it has a respectable business plan: to provide telecom services to those parts of the world where wireless or fixed-line service doesn't really exist--Equatorial Africa and the upper reaches of the Amazon--or where it's inadequate, as in many areas of Africa, India and Latin America.
What is needed instead, as in so many areas of Indian physical output, is greater productivity.
In this, as in many other areas, Congress remains rife with contradictions.
The answer, as in many other areas of complex decision-making, is simple.
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As in so many areas, it seems President Obama's space policies and programs are designed to "fundamentally transform" America from a preeminent world power to just another nation, dependent on the good will and assistance of others to safeguard its interests.
As in so many other areas of global health, strong and targeted public-private partnerships can make a huge difference in addressing this challenge.
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As in so many other problem areas of finance, the groundbreaking company was Tyco.
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Wanted to identify as many options in these areas as possible as well as pros and cons.
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In Kenya today, diabetes afflicts 5% of people living in rural areas and as many as 10% of those living in cities.
As the City has enjoyed a renaissance of sorts, as many other urban areas in the United States like Atlanta, Boston, San Francisco and Chicago have done, real estate values have vacillated with peaks in hipster neighborhoods and dips in less favorable areas.
This could, in turn, hurt government plans to rent out foreclosed homes, as many of them are in outlying areas, the economist points out.
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Although we see the government reducing the role of prices in some areas, such as health care, the price system is still working in many other areas of the economy.
"There are allegations that there are more than twice as many betting shops in areas of high unemployment than in areas of low unemployment, " he said.
As in other breakaway areas, many of Aceh's 4m people feel they are not seeing their fair share of the wealth flowing from the province's huge oil and gas fields.
Our objective was to disburse grants to as many community-based organizations as our financial resources would allow, with programs in many areas.
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While countries such as Bangladesh started micro-credit programmes in the 1970s, low population densities in many areas of rural Latin America have meant that micro-credit schemes have been seen as economically unviable in the region.
Since then, Bidun have faced severe obstacles in many areas such as access to healthcare and education, and many live in poverty.
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Changes in the number of houses for sale are widely seen as a good 'leading indicator' of price-changes: in a boom-period there are more buyers than sellers, so the number of properties for sale diminishes, and in a 'bust' period sellers exceed the number of those willing to buy at current prices, so prices tend to fall, as seems already to be happening in many areas.
Many observers believe that Sonangol was already acting as a sovereign wealth fund by investing its profits in many areas outside of the oil industry -- including buying up key stakes in Portugal's biggest bank by assets, Millennium BCP.
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Not only does this second-guess the will of locally elected politicians, but with 20 per cent surplus places in the Welsh education system, it's also acted as a brake on rationalising the structure of schools in many areas - currently one in two, a staggering 50 per cent of all local reorganisation proposals end up on Ministers' desks.
In Dagucheng as in many Chinese villages, remittances from villagers who have found work in urban areas have helped to raise living standards considerably.
Brian Schwartz, a professor of physics at the City University of New York, says that in the 1970s as many as 5, 000 physicists had to find jobs in other areas.
However as more traffic goes though the public Internet it could overwhelm the carrying capacity in many geographic areas, even within the US. As a consequence a new type of network addressable storage appliance in consumer homes and SMB facilities as well as carried by people themselves will play an increasingly important role in the developing storage hierarchy.
President Bush says Iraqi forces are making progress, as they take over responsibility for security in many areas of the country.
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Not surprisingly there are serious doubts as to how elections will take place in many areas where there is no law and order.
In many areas, such as semiconductors, biotech and even software, individual inventors have all but abandoned the field as being too expensive for them.
It also says "unanswered questions remain in many crucial areas such as practical implementation and how individual components within the reforms will work together".
They list investor protection, intellectual property, and inadequate or inconsistent laws and regulations as areas of particular concern in many Asian and Latin American countries.
In effect it would lay out a path whereby Europe would become more integrated in many areas while leaving veto rights with member states in such matters as foreign policy, taxation and defense--and Europeans with a voice in making those decisions.
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