So we will do that when -- again, this is a -- we do not control all levers of government.

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In 1994 it led a movement to do away with proprietary controls that had prevented customers from, say, mixing and matching its controllers with other manufacturers' peripherals, like sensors, monitors and actuators (powered doohickeys that control valves, levers and conveyors).

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As long as so much spending grows automatically, lawmakers have remarkably little control over its fiscal levers.

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Consumer Reports vehicle testers, who are in and out of a variety of vehicles during a year, would sometimes accidentally shift cars into neutral when they intended to turn on the windshield wipers because they mistook downsized shift levers for wiper-control stalks, Mr. Fisher says.

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For one, the Chinese government, unlike those in the large developed economies, has full control of all the monetary and fiscal levers and has proven to be particularly adept at pulling on them.

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Mr Macintosh, Labour's finance spokesman, told BBC Scotland the economic levers which the SNP wanted to control were cutting corporation tax and VAT rates for certain businesses.

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Most well-educated Indians have moved off reservation land, leaving an ill-educated and poverty-stricken group that too easily abdicates control to the few remaining members who know how to pull the right levers.

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