• Behind the scenes Lib Dem ministers are telling their Tory coalition partners - if you're determined to drop this tax we need something in return which will show that the government is committed to fairness eg a new tax on property.

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  • Examples range from the merely annoying (eg, a proposed code for nurseries in Colorado that specifies how many crayons each box must contain) to the delusional (eg, the conceit of Dodd-Frank that you can anticipate and ban every nasty trick financiers will dream up in the future).

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  • It can be useful in business, eg. when plotting a take-over, or politics, eg. figuring out which party wields the most power.

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  • It is that you first work out a set of defensible overarching aims eg that schools should equip students for a fulfilling life, both personally and as citizens and workers.

    BBC: Viewpoints: National curriculum in England

  • One problem will be persuading Sumitomo Bank, a third big lender to Daiei with several other costly headaches (eg, two life insurers and a bunch of construction companies), to approve the plans.

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  • On the other hand it is encouraging schools to develop a specialism (eg, technology or music) and is allowing such schools to select up to 10% of their intake by aptitude for the specialist subject.

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  • American fund managers are also doing well in other Latin American countries, which have either adopted the Chilean approach (eg, Mexico and Bolivia), or gone down a similar route while avoiding mandatory contributions (eg, Argentina and Brazil).

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  • Renewables can depress wholesale prices, eg, when the sun creates a midday jolt.

    ECONOMIST: Germany��s energy transformation

  • That will mean cajoling Bosnian leaders with a mix of carrots (eg, an easier visa regime) and sticks (eg, no further progress towards membership talks).

    ECONOMIST: Fragile Bosnia

  • Rumor had it that Wurman waited until the day after his noncompete agreement to begin planning EG, which came across very much as a thumb in the eye of the other Anderson's TED.

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  • Obviously, as people get older they grow keener on investments that produce a reliable stream of income (eg, bonds from creditworthy issuers) than on investments that take years to produce capital growth (eg, most shares).

    ECONOMIST: Buttonwood

  • We believe that this money should be used to help deliver new technologies to help reduce the industry's carbon emissions, eg, by supporting biofuels projects which can play a significant role in decarbonising air travel.

    ECONOMIST: Letters

  • Most of it is unstructured and stored in a non-machine-readable form (eg, English), which means that it can be read only by humans.

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  • It is not rare for part of a country to give its name (Canada, eg) to the whole.

    ECONOMIST: Johnson

  • Whatever the extent of their restructuring so far, companies still face a big task cleaning up their balance sheets (eg, by selling assets and pulling out of unprofitable businesses) before they can start growing again.

    ECONOMIST: Japanese corporate profits

  • As professional medical writers, we assist authors with the often long and laborious effort required to write a review that complies with best practice reporting guidelines (eg, PRISMA).

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  • "A large number are contingent on further research and review - eg 'DTI will undertake further research and analysis', 'DTI will investigate', and 'Defra will look carefully at', " he said.

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  • Youth, incidentally, are said to be leaving Facebook, perhaps because they see it as a place increasingly spammed by older people who have joined the network: eg. inspirational quotes superimposed on sunsets, stale memes, etc.

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  • Last year Hugues Lagrange, a sociologist, reported that black youths with origins in Africa's Sahel (eg from Mali and Mauritania) were more likely to be involved in crime than those from other parts of Africa, including the Maghreb.

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  • In the self-service restaurant, called Bricks (what else?), kids can serve themselves from a height-appropriate buffet that includes locally sourced, good-for-you kid foods (eg. chicken fingers that are baked, not fried).

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  • For years, the Commission's reaction to made-up stories (eg, the EU is to scrub all mentions of the Queen from British passports) has been to write a polite letter of correction, and after a delay of some days, put a little item on its website.

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  • However, online magazine Spiked sounds a note of caution in this article, questioning some of the vague claims made in the programmes, eg. poor diet is making kids obese.

    BBC: 10 THINGS WE DIDN'T KNOW THIS TIME LAST WEEK

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