No doubt more studies will be carried out, especially when enlargement is less distant.

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Unfortunately, there is no consensus on which methods and assumptions are most valid when calculating forward costs, especially costs incurred in the distant future.

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Yet many admitted, too, that Mr Bush was on target, especially considering that Ayman Nour, a young, secular politician who was the distant runner-up to Mr Mubarak in the 2005 presidential election, has languished in jail ever since, on flimsy charges of forgery.

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