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Hollywood executives and state-level politicians claim that film subsidies boost job creation and state tourism.
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The fundamental problem is that MP3 wasn't just dreamed up by a dude in a lab somewhere, it's a standard which builds on the work of earlier codecs and formats, so it's easy for a variety of different entities to legitimately lay claim to having some patents related to its creation.
ENGADGET: Fight over who owns MP3 gets messier and messier
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Mr Byrne said the Conservative proposals included the creation of at least another 17 quangos, a claim rejected by the Tories.
BBC: Tories pledge to cut back quangos
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The CFPB, while fighting other regulators, banks, lobbyists, and an increasingly vocal gang of politicians who claim that Dodd-Frank has ruined our economic prospects, killed all job creation, and destroyed demand, is doing it own thing to empower do-gooders across state lines.
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This was the case with the Cree over the massive James Bay hydroelectric dams in northern Quebec, the Innu over the Voisey's Bay nickel mine in Labrador, the Inuit over diamond mines in the Northwest Territories, and the 1999 creation of the new territory of Nunavut, the largest land-claim settlement in Canadian history.
ECONOMIST: Canada
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He also stakes claim to his role in the accomplishments of the Pataki administration, including tax cuts and the creation of 300, 000 jobs in the state.
CNN: A tight North Carolina Senate race
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Kennedy, was no academic, and many would claim that his real market expertise lay in devising some of the unsavory practices that led to the creation of the SEC in the first place.
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Now, there are those who claim we have to choose between paying down our deficits on the one hand, and investing in job creation and economic growth on the other.
WHITEHOUSE: Job Creation and Economic Growth
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While his campaign documents claim that finishing the Keystone Pipeline would create 100, 000 jobs, the only independent analysis of job creation persuasively finds that the actual totals are 4, 650 temporary jobs and 50 permanent ones.
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