Inflation in Brazil, by both headline and core measures, is now above 5.5 percent and Nomura expects it to rise towards 6 percent in 2013.
This was a move of Captain-Kirk-like chutzpah on the part of chief executive Mitchell Gold, because the two late-stage studies the company had conducted had both, by the measures of clinical trial statistics, failed.
Both these measures will, by the same token, damage Mr Karzai's relations with the Northern Alliance's warlords, who are mainly Tajiks and Uzbeks.
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The new stimulus measures have been prompted by both political as well as economic concerns, according to Masamichi Adachi, senior economist at JP Morgan.
Both measures must be passed by a House of Representatives now firmly in Republican hands, and also require the support of seven or more Republican senators.
Unless both measures start moving in Congress by August, they will not be completed by next May, when congressmen will start campaigning for the municipal elections later in the year.
Lord McKenzie noted that all of the measures had been fully debated by both Houses when they were set up by the last Labour government, arguing that legislation to abolish them should therefore be debated in the same way.
It said both should be placed in special measures - a status applied by Estyn when it considers that schools fail to supply an acceptable level of education and appear to lack the leadership capacity to improve.
On both sides of the Atlantic, quarantine was increasingly replaced by better intelligence and proactive measures.
By contrast to European leaders, however, who have taken both short-term and long-term measures to address the problem, American politicians do not seem to be prepared to move in the right direction.
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