The new chief cabinet secretary, Yoshito Sengoku, the prime minister's gatekeeper on government policy, will want to deal seriously with both Japan's national debt and its deflation.

ECONOMIST: Banyan

If we finally want to deal seriously with multiple-victim public shootings, it's time that we acknowledge a common feature of these attacks: With just a single exception, the attack in Tucson last year, every public shooting in the U.S. in which more than three people have been killed since at least 1950 has occurred in a place where citizens are not allowed to carry their own firearms.

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And he also is very clear in his call for the need to invest in new industries, to innovate, and to focus on the education of our children -- precisely in order to grow the economy and create the jobs that will enable us not just to lead in the 21st century but to seriously deal with our long-term fiscal issues.

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We're suggesting that people need to be sure that they can reach their doctors or their doctor's office, and that the office will take their complaints seriously, and deal with them in the most appropriate fashion.

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And I can assure you that in my discussions with the Lebanese authorities they are taking this issue seriously and they are taking measures to deal with it, and the international communities should work with them.

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But London Underground refuses to deal with it - or even treat it seriously.

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The economy committee called for consideration to be given to new prosecution and sentencing guidelines in relation to assaults on workers who deal with the public, to tackle the perception that aggravating circumstances are not taken seriously.

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He said it could put three million jobs at risk, make it difficult to deal with cross-border threats such as climate change, and would also mean Britain was "taken less seriously in Washington, Beijing, Tokyo".

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However, the fact that no deal with an alternative distributor has been announced by now concerns us, and leads us to believe that DWA may be seriously considering a self-distribution model, which would likely require some sort of capital raise, likely in the form of debt issuance.

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