Finally, my thesis adviser in grad school has researched Russian demographics for over 30 years, including during the Brezhnev period when basic demographic indicators were state secrets (he had to painstakingly assemble estimates by laboriously pouring over specialized virology and immunology journals which had a few data points scattered throughout them).

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Both sides conspired to waste every meaningful attacking opportunity in an opening period riddled with basic errors.

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Diane and I go back a very long way--three decades, give or take--and in addition to the personal friendship we have, during that period, shared a basic diagnosis of what's awry in U.S. education.

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One last thought: Although the Roach-Frankel duo went on to address currencies and exchange rates, the two never got to a basic risk factor in the current fragile period: What if the U.S. dollar, under the weight of private and public misallocation of resources, were to collapse?

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She added staff were being supported in this "unsettling period of change" and that basic pay remained unchanged.

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Many of the older students have lived through a period of violence and suffering and have not yet had the opportunity for even a basic education.

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Basic and utility phones will generate 40% of sales and 11% of revenues within the forecast period.

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But the basic problem is that you still have a lot of Republicans who want an enforce the borders bill, period.

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