The A9 Perth to Inverness Economic Appraisal Study estimated journey times could be cut by 22 minutes and predicted that 724 jobs could be created in the short-term - rising to 4, 500 over 30 years.

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The Center for Security Policy today issued a critical appraisal of the priorities of the Group of Seven industrialized countries in placing the economic and financial needs of the Warsaw Pact countries increasingly ahead of those of the Latin American debtor nations in certain areas.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center for Security Policy | Center For Security Policy Challenges Emergence Of Preferential Treatment Of Soviet Bloc Over Latin American Nations

In the case of Avastin and Taxol, NICE says on its Web site it ended its appraisal of the combined drugs for metastatic breast cancer because it didn't receive a "full economic analysis" of the treatment from drugmaker Roche Products.

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