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Not surprisingly, a basic name, address and phone number is the most desired result for consumers.

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Experts from English-speaking African LDCs meeting at Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, last March, said the Programme of Action had failed to address the development problems of LDCs and to deliver the desired results.

UN: [21 Jul 2000] DEV/2253 : LAYING GROUNDWORK FOR THIRD UN CONFERENCE ON LEAST DEVELOPED COUNTRIES, PREPARATORY COMMITTEE TO MEET AT HEADQUARTERS, 24 - 28 JULY

Michael Demkowicz of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is developing a model that he hopes will address the problem from a different direction: specifying a set of desired properties and then trying to predict the nanostructures needed to deliver them.

ECONOMIST: New materials for renewable energy

In my next post, I will cover what the Affordable Care Act does to address this pain, and together, we can decide if this will get us toward our desired outcome of billing nirvana.

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