Mr Blaszkiewitz said the polar bear may be preserved and displayed at Berlin's Natural History Museum, DPA reports.

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Governments are instead hooked on spending that at best is neutral to DPA and most often detrimental to it.

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The whole point of SOC is to facilitate DPA: direct productive activity.

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Attempts at revitalising growth are being thwarted by pointless and unproductive investment in areas that either leave DPA untouched or actually harm it.

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Spending is just fine if it has a strong positive effect on DPA. Meanwhile, waste is waste and everyone can agree nobody wants that.

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Electronics brands will often donate 15 or 30 copies of a product in exchange for the opportunity to place it directly in a celebrity's hand, says Nathalie Dubois-Sissoko, owner of DPA, a Los Angeles-based celebrity gifting company.

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Germany news agency DPA reported that the defence minister was visiting the Baghlan province in northern Afghanistan on Thursday and had spent the night with German forces in one of the most dangerous areas in which they were operating.

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An increase in DPA is growth.

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