Among the many items caught in the current gridlock is an AMT patch.

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It is also adding 15, 000 items per day from its current reporting.

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Some of that money could be spent on items that make statements about the current state of business and the economy.

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However, imports of gold as well as petroleum -- the items largely responsible for India's unfavorable current account balance -- remained high during February.

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While the NFL and NBA have largely caught up to the national pastime in terms of current popularity, no memorabilia item goes for anything close to the top baseball items.

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Actually, the thing that is most often the focus is the "current account balance", which means trade in goods and services plus some financial items, including remittances that migrant workers send home.

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Our favorite wished-for items, though, were those that were imaginative, useful and a good distance beyond the state of current technology--but with that ring of plausibility that characterizes the best science fiction.

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