The technological and economic features of the industry are also such that a single provider is often able to serve the overall demand at a lower total cost than any combination of smaller entities could.

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Yet the Greek economy shares many features with the economic models prevailing in the former Soviet Union and in Latin American nations.

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Economic dislocation and inflation are features of life that go back into ancient history and we are living through another such period.

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One of the rather under-appreciated features of the European Union as an economic entity is that there are two wildly divergent intellectual approaches underpinning policy.

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Both balancing safety against economic growth and requiring a review of existing rules are features of President Bill Clinton's EO 12866, which Obama reaffirmed when repealing Bush's EOs 13258 and 13422.

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Other than the naming of a new Director-General (afternoon of 15 October) and the adoption of the 2010-2011 Programme and Budget, the agenda of the 35th session features a Ministerial Forum on strategies to overcome the economic crisis and on the future of UNESCO as a multilateral organization, on 8 October.

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In Davos recently David Cameron argued that successful currency unions had vital features in common: a lender of last resort for the state, economic integration and flexibility to deal with shocks, fiscal transfers and collective debt.

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