The important thing is that someone introduces some new ideas, rather than just cutting benefits within the existing framework, for example by raising retirement ages.

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While competition has demonstrable benefits, it must occur within an appropriate institutional framework.

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Realizing these benefits depends, however, on a consistent public policy framework that supports significant export.

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What they found, however, is that by deploying the new promise of cloud computing within the old IT framework of integrating lots of disparate pieces, those benefits have been diluted and delayed.

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Although most of the people who wrote about this immediately focused on the ability to quickly test features of mobile apps, I thought, perhaps, that the Framework, with its hybrid approach that combines the performance and functionality benefits of native apps with the high-speed developement of HTML 5, might be the key.

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The Global Framework for Climate Services (GFCS), a UN system-wide initiative, will amplify the benefits from global to national levels of efforts to adapt to climate variability and change for improved health, water management, disaster risk reduction, agriculture and food security from 2013.

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