And it must insist that as a bare minimum the system has enough capital and liquidity to absorb a crisis as bad as the last one.

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When released, the handheld, which once carried the code name of Helix but now will apparently be called the Zodiac, will run on the Palm (nasdaq: PALM - news - people ) operating system, and from the bare specifications the company has let slip so far, it looks impressive.

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We might not all agree that student loan debt should be forgiven but I think most folks are of like minds that, if the federal government continues to promote loans over grants as the way to finance college, then Americans deserve a student loan system that, at the bare minimum, empowers borrowers to take control of the debt management experience.

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The other consequence is many of the people who lose their own setup are eventually absorbed in the big box system as low-skill employees getting paid the bare minimum wage.

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What the law is really doing more than anything else is sort of laying bare the challenges we face as a country educationally that we have a system that worked well for us in the 20th century, but is really mismatched what we need our publics to do today.

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The system tray, to the right of the Taskbar, contains only the bare minimum of items, such as the network and battery indicators.

WSJ: Microsoft Gives Windows a Clean Sweep

Although Linux-based, the XO-1's operating system appears to have been very much simplified, with menu bars and icons being kept to a bare minimum.

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Spam filters are now in place on just about every email system, reducing the amount of spam reaching user accounts, both personal and corporate, to a bare minimum.

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