Now, however, Iran has a new president and American policy could be on the point of change though Madeleine Albright, the secretary of state, has urged people not to read too much into the administration's decision to let the deal go ahead.
After Tuesday's Fed rate cut - its third rate cut this year - most experts believe that another UK rate cut in on the cards - although the Bank will be careful to point out that it takes decisions on the basis of the situation of the UK economy.
Unless Google engages in some form of aggressive affirmative action (a concept that has lost favor, even among some liberals) in the distribution of Glass, what we will see on YouTube will be more from the point-of-view of the kinds of people we already know: celebrities, tech innovators, spoiled rich kids, etc.
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Most other countries are not for any system of taxation (and compulsory insurance through the tax system will be the same on this point) does not include the major cost of taxation: the deadweight cost on the rest of the economy.
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Mountain View's Locke suggests that the server location be taken out of the equation by basing the point of sale on where the company's headquarters are located, and Hennepin County's Johnson pointed out that software and computer-generated music transactions may prove to be undetectable and therefore untaxable.
And two, do you have any sense -- or is the White House willing to compromise at all on what appears to be the biggest sticking point of the Consumer Financial Protection Agency?
This allegation may even be raised in the Chamber on a point of order, and the phrase "contempt of parliament" has been whispered.
Annuity payments can be deferred until retirement or advanced age, at which point tax would be due on the income component of the annuity payments.
With all the inevitable pressures she will be facing from this point on, why assume the additional burden of comparison with one of the most iconic and adored figures since the dawn of media.
But it is unclear whether doing this will be allowed on the nature reserve of Spurn Point.
They allow coaches to concentrate on teaching instead of winning, which is supposed to be the point of youth sports development.
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Italy is the third-largest economy in the EU. Italian and Spanish bond yields are starting to creep higher again, which is an early clue that the EU debt crisis could be back on the front burner of the market place at some point in the not too distant future.
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The differences both in perspective and approach couldn't be more divergent, folks on both sides of the issue point out.
"Naturally, even within the fabric of friendly bilateral relations between two allies, there will not be full agreement on every point, " Netanyahu said Sunday at the start of his weekly Cabinet meeting.
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"I would've liked more time on the bike but most people will be saying the same thing so from that point of view it's a level playing field, " said Laverty.
This time around, however, raising taxes on the poor seems to be a point of pride among Republican candidates, although Mr Cain has modified his original plan slightly to make it less regressive.
Research conducted by Capital Economics, commissioned by Everything Everywhere, said a cautious estimate of the impact of 4G LTE mobile broadband will be in the order of a 0.5 percentage point on gross domestic product.
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The Israelis believe there will be a more subtle discernment of Israeli domestic realities on the Palestinian side once point-making gives way to negotiating.
In the Commons, Mr Farrelly raised the issue on a point of order, saying it must be of "some concern" to the House.
Technology such as Hawkeye or the Snickometer would not be used, but an lbw mat - the solid line between the stumps used by broadcasters to determine where the ball pitches and the point of impact on the batsman's pads - will be included.
If they took away all the bunkers, eliminated the trees and creeks and rough, and located the holes on every green at the bottom of a bowl, what would be the point?
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Apple's latest iPhone - due for release on Friday - is set to be the focal point of another lawsuit involving the two firms.
But she informed me that she, be the person on the other side of the counter could not see my number, at that point I realized that thousands of people a day across America, use Wal Mart to cash their checks, and that means a lot of people are being put at risk, when they may not think about.
The implications of such prior restraint on free speech would be chilling (which is precisely the point).
The president also said they talked at length about increasing oil production and maybe even creating something called an oil fund that he says would be for the Iraqi people, though he didn't elaborate on any of the specifics of that point.
It was Obama, not Abbas, who first stipulated that future "peace" negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians must be predicated on Israel's prior acceptance of the indefensible 1949 armistice lines as a starting point for talks.
For the end point, we would be better off measuring the ability of people to sit on the front porch and drink a mint julep.
As the candidates clashed on global trade, it was clear that the valuation of Chinese currency would be a point of contention.
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The point might be to report on a different kind of news, or for a different audience, or to try and be as unbiased as possible, or to provide a news source that can be freely copied.
If a Chinese paper dwells on the names of specific officials who allowed the construction of unsafe schools, it might be scoring a point for accountability, but the investigative coup also leaves the paper vulnerable to petty political retribution.
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