The changes nearly had their desired effect on 80 minutes, but Van Persie's strike just evaded Myhill's right-hand post.

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And, despite Zamora testing home goalkeeper Massimo Colomba with a deflected free-kick early in the second half, the changes initially had the desired effect.

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We need to be sure that any of the currently proposed structural changes will actually have the desired effect of strengthening the potential of our small businesses.

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While the CPI at one time was the measure desired by the public, government efforts turned the CPI away from measuring the price changes in a fixed-weight basket of goods and services to a quasi-substitution-based basket of goods, which destroyed the concept of the CPI as a measure of the cost of living of maintaining a constant standard of living.

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