Oil-industry analysts believe that cutting the flow of Saudi oil to the U.S. would be painful--but far from fatal--to the U.S. economy.
Suspending disbelief for the moment and assuming new drilling would be allowed, joining this treaty would be far from cost-free, either for the oil industry or for the American consumer.
The BBC's David Willis says the austere surrounding of the all-women's detention centre will be a far cry from the five-star luxury the hotel heiress has become used to.
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The couple eat locally grown food that doesn't have to be transported from far-flung states.
But her case appears to be far from a one-off occurrence.
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Today, Bhutan may still be far from a full-fledged democracy.
That is because the investors making these huge sales almost always are a company's largest shareholders, and though by law they are included in the category of insiders, they tend to be far removed from day-to-day corporate decision making.
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Wigan's remaining games appear marginally tougher than Villa's and the far-from-straightforward goal must be to go into the final game of the season, which is appropriately Wigan vs.
Cyprus, under this far-from-new plan, would be a federal state with Greek and Turkish zones, neither of them linked to their respective mother-countries.
This is a way for McChrystal's voice - missing so far from the debate - to be heard loud and clear, making the case for counter-insurgency tactics and more troops to back them up.
But even if machines are closely monitored by polling staff--a condition that's far from universal--a more realistic concern may be innocent bugs that miscount or ignore votes.
Cool as the kids here may be they are far from self-conscious, singing along to whatever is dished up, from Plastic Bertrand to Run DMC.
Greek left-wing MP Dimitris Stratoulis has said he was attacked in Athens by three men claiming to be supporters from the far-right party Golden Dawn.
Clearly, it would be far preferable from every perspective - strategically, economically and politically - if our leaders can get them underway before that happens and, thereby, mitigate the consequences when, not if, it does.
These activities could include demonstrations of new robots, inflatable modules in which to live or grow food ("greenhouses"), new life-support technologies, radiation protection systems, communications and sensor technologies, novel telemedicine approaches - anything that would be needed by astronauts on a self-sufficient mission far from Earth.
Though the supposed smoking gun revealed by Sidney Wolfe , director of the Public Citizen Health Research Group, raises concern about the actions of the drug's manufacturer, Pfizer (nyse: PFE - news - people ), it appears to be far from a final word on Celebrex.
For example, if one adds up the wet-gas production from all the shale-gas plays, the answer would be far in excess of the total dry-gas production nationwide.
They are heading for around 15% under Krista Sager, a tough Realpolitikerin about as far as could be from the flower-power children who founded the Greens in the late 1970s.
The only thing that is clear is that the national policing picture will be far from uniform in years to come - with PCCs finding their own ways to do things, potentially at odds with the way ministers would like them to do it.
Now that Yangon is being admitted into the ranks, efforts should be stepped up to persuade it to be less heavy-handed, though results are far from certain.
It's not quite a Batman-type science-bending project, but DARPA's apparently hush hush "Gandalf" initiative looks to be fairly ambitious nonetheless -- at least as far as we can tell from the rather vague statements that have been made about it.
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The problem may be that bond investors, far from being far-sighted, are in fact myopic, and are perhaps being fooled by the temporary disinflationary effects of excess capacity and debts built up over the bubble years in both Japan and America.
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Apple has eliminated all (valid) complaints about iOS (notifications, computer dependency and the anemic mail application being the biggest ones), launched a free mail, contacts and calendar server for all iOS and Lion users, and promoted iOS devices to be computer-independent, all while delivering the biggest concession from the music industry we have seen so far in a side-note.
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They say the diet in England is far from perfect - but should be achievable in other UK countries.
Their certainty rests on something much more visceral than what can be provided by any statistics and admittedly far-from-perfect studies.
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SPARC, made for Sun by Texas Instruments, is always going to be far dearer than any high-volume chip from Intel.
The battle between shock jockery and high-mindedness may be far from over.
If that's the case, then there are far better rewards to be had from a bank-issued Visa or MasterCard than a co-branded gas card, says Ms. Sekar of NerdWallet.com.
To be body-bag averse is far from shameful: no one should relish unnecessary casualties, and technology now enables Americans to do much of their fighting from a height or a distance in comparative safety.
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Any figure that strays too far from that consensus expectation would likely be a market-mover.
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