Do we really have to wait for something bigger in order to get smarter.

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Low real interest rates imply that workers should save a bigger sum for their old age in order to generate their desired income.

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It might also reduce the need for antitrust enforcement by counteracting data aggregators' desire to grow ever bigger in order to reap economies of scale.

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All councils agreed to freeze the council tax rate for the fourth year running in order to avoid the penalty of a bigger cut in central funding.

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In areas with more severe house-price declines, it may be necessary for lenders to take a bigger haircut and offer smaller notional shared appreciation claims in order to restore homeowners to positive equity at lower house prices.

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The bigger the bail-out, the weaker the incentive for countries like Italy and Greece to put themselves in order.

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That allows for the possibility authorities can flip the accused in order to convince him to testify against co-conspirators or bigger players like his former boss Cohen.

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In any event, many people in Baghdad say the report merely urges what the American ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad, has been trying to achieve for more than a year: bigger concessions by the Shia- and Kurdish-dominated government to the Sunnis in order to quell the insurgency.

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