MIT's Mr Sapolsky argues, defence ministries can allow themselves the luxury of subsidising an arms industry in the cause of job-creation and the appeasement of lobbies only if they live in comfortable international circumstances, when they are not really threatened.

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The FPC might yet conclude that the underlying cause of inadequate credit creation is that banks have barely enough capital to support potential losses on their current portfolios of loans.

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In essence, the pros acknowledge the rigidities in European labour markets, the differences in economic cycles and so forth, but believe that the creation of a single currency will cause these costs to diminish.

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While inflation may fundamentally result from too great a creation of money, the proximate or immediate cause of its actual development is much more a function of expectations of what will happen next.

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Creation by the United States of a new, extraterritorial private cause of action would impose on non-U.S. audit firms the litigation burdens and threats now faced by U.S. audit firms.

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Perhaps the creation of a Palestinian homeland would give Palestinian officials a constructive and cohesive rallying cause.

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Her true passion for the underlying cause, healthy products for her family, comes from a personal interest that started long before the creation of the company.

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