The ideal result is that more and more people can meet their own needs and perform the all-important function of playing with the data, but when it comes time to get serious or to scale, use the same techniques.

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More generally, government actions will not result in the ideal policies that economic theory describes.

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Chelsea held Arsenal to a goalless draw in the Premier League on Saturday and a repeat result here would be ideal.

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That can result in less than ideal communication.

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And we think that that good faith and willingness helped, in the end, allow for everyone the come together and achieve a result that, while not ideal, did avert a crisis and did allow us to make a significant down payment on the need to reduce the deficit.

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The desired result is a tailored solution with the ideal combination of power, space and cost.

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In an ideal world, member states would respect the Irish result and get on with making the best of existing EU provisions for cooperation in external policy.

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The result is Hayami, in many ways the ideal compromise because he combines private-sector and government experience.

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But now, IDEAL is the first of these trials not to provide a statistically significant result.

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In IDEAL, only 3% of the patients in the trial died as a result of heart disease.

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