Though it didn't explicitly mention deflation, the FOMC says that measures of underlying inflation have trended lower in recent quarters and, with substantial resource slack continuing to restrain cost pressures and longer-term inflation expectations stable, inflation is likely to be subdued for some time.

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Montana officials are continuing to investigate the natural resource damages caused by the Silvertip spill.

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The hut may well become a benchmark for future Alpine huts, with its designer, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, continuing to research its energy and resource use.

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West Africa is persistently volatile, as the latest dustups in the Ivory Coast and continuing mayhem in Congo show, but Nigeria rises above resource-rich neighbors in its potential to affect world commerce.

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