Acting Senate president Emilio Colombo told his chamber that stalemate "could bring us to institutional paralysis, with dramatic consequences on... the great social and economic problems that torment us".

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But the dispute is likely to resurface at the World Trade Organisation, where the US could bring a complaint against the EU over the issue.

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Could these be combined to bring us closer to the kind of natural, predictive experience of Apple's nearly decade-old Knowledge Navigator video than its 22 year-old Macintosh?

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The shadow business secretary has asked American Express - which sponsors the US initiative - to see if they could bring the idea to the UK this year.

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He asked if he could bring some guests and his family graciously invited all five of us.

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How could, for example, a close relative of Gerald Ford bring us a historic signed photograph of the former president, a family gift, and not know it was a copy?

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