• Within that constituency, interviewers were then told to find people with a given set of characteristics--ie, a certain proportion of men and women, of blue-collar and white-collar workers.

    ECONOMIST: Why the polls got it wrong last time

  • Next year it aims to achieve a primary surplus - ie a budget surplus, excluding the costs it pays to service its debts.

    BBC: The Greek conundrum

  • At that time they said the most obvious solution would be an above-politics left-nationalist figure, a "Greek Kirchner" or "Greek Morales", and that the absence of such a figure would make it impossible to form what Marxists refer to as a "workers government" - ie a radical reforming government with the participation of the far left, but limited to parliamentary means.

    BBC: Greece: Trying to understand Syriza

  • Brylane, one of the market leaders, sells clothes up to size 60, and finds that a third of its large-size business is in 28 (ie, a 45-inch waist) and over.

    ECONOMIST: That other national expansion

  • Instead of trying to come up with a routine check-in (ie: once a week, every two weeks, etc.), just focus on reaching out when you have a timely, newsworthy story idea.

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  • CDM's imaging system, it passes first through conventional optical elements, and then through a lens moulded into a shape of a cubic-like function (ie, with a surface which, instead of being spherical, is relatively flat in the centre but has scalloped edges).

    ECONOMIST: MONITOR

  • Instead of working to a pre-arranged formula, a generator (ie, a parser in reverse) is brought into play to create a sentence structure in the target language.

    ECONOMIST: A gift of tongues

  • But they need a national swing from Labour of 1.6 percentage points (ie, more than a three percentage-point lead) to rob Labour of its overall majority, 4.3 points to become the largest party and 6.9 to gain an overall majority, assuming no big change in support for other parties.

    ECONOMIST: A briefing on the British election

  • Secondly, he pointed out that his plan is to meet what he calls his "mandate" - to eliminate the structural deficit over the lifetime of this Parliament - a year early ie in four years and not five.

    BBC: Carrying on regardless

  • Very very roughly, the scenarios suggest that this might be true - ie Ed Balls might be right - if the economy is actually in a downturn.

    BBC: IMF report on UK makes for unhappy reading

  • Microsoft added in a follow-up blog post that IE 8 users are protected by default from the attack by Data Execution Prevention, a safeguard designed to prevent content data from being misinterpreted by a program as executable commands.

    FORBES: Criminal Exploits Targeting New Bug In Old Internet Explorer Versions

  • Thus confirmed in his ideas, Dr Susser went on to trace the incidence of anti-social personality disorder (ie, a pathological tendency to behave badly towards one's fellow humans) in the two groups.

    ECONOMIST: The fetus is father of the man

  • But once a user customizes IE, it's difficult to return it to a portal-less state.

    CNN: The road to IE5 isn't without bumps

  • Foreign investors report presentations by the Central Bank mentioning a real (ie, inflation-adjusted) exchange rate that implies annual inflation of around 20%.

    ECONOMIST: Argentina��s inflation problem

  • How about a Royal College for teaching, Ms Leslie suggests, providing a universally-recognised career progression to the teaching equivalent of the consultant surgeon, ie, a practitioner of the highest quality who also teaches younger colleagues?

    ECONOMIST: Fixing British education

  • The 23 who had written about everyday interactions and 20 of the 39 who had written about behaving unethically were asked to submerge their non-dominant hand (ie, left, if they were right-handed, and vice versa) into a bucket of ice for as long as they could.

    ECONOMIST: Religion got it right: pain seems to assuage guilt

  • He says ASEAN countries deserve praise for cutting tariffs in a non-discriminatory way (ie, on goods produced both inside and outside ASEAN).

    ECONOMIST: Vague hopes of integration and messy bilateral squabbles

  • Post-6.1, WinMo will indeed have its app suite revamped, including a desktop-grade port of IE to Windows Mobile, which Microsoft is replacing pocket IE with and directly targeting mobile Safari.

    ENGADGET: Windows Mobile: more of what's going on in the next two versions

  • In theory, global trade should cause prices in different countries to converge: the prices of low-cost producers should gradually increase as wages rise (ie, China's falling prices were a temporary anomaly), while the prices of high-cost producers should fall.

    ECONOMIST: Why China is not to blame for the surge in global inflation

  • Have we, post-WWII, actually had a substantial (ie, decade or more long) period when this was true?

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  • We have to start by remembering that there were good reasons for the Bank of England and the government to worry about a high LIBOR rate at the time since it was a symptom of the credit crunch - ie the disappearance of inter-bank lending.

    BBC: Barclays Banks - A Whitehall whodunit

  • In Oaxaca, the state government hopes to pass legislation in the coming legislative term (ie, the next six months) to launch a five-year reform process leading to the formal installation of a new legal system.

    ECONOMIST: The long path towards justice

  • The non-financial corporate sector is running a big surplus (ie, it is saving more than it is investing).

    ECONOMIST: The economy after the election

  • The Kin additionally shares the Zune HD's browser engine, a hybrid of IE 7 and 8 that features pinch-to-zoom but has no support for Flash or Silverlight.

    ENGADGET: Microsoft Kin: everything you ever wanted to know

  • The bug revolves around the way that IE manages a computer's memory when processing Cascading Style Sheets - a widely used technology that defines the look and feel of pages on a website.

    BBC: Microsoft warns on IE browser bug

  • Our company does not provide health insurance, because our workers, even our most senior managers, only work for us seasonally (ie a few months of the year) and many work part-time.

    FORBES: Regime Uncertainty and Obamacare

  • Brazil's new president, Lula da Silva, said the big spending cuts he announced this week, aimed at raising the government's primary surplus (ie, before debt-service costs), would help the country survive a coming external crisis.

    ECONOMIST: Riding for a fall

  • Many if not most Tory MPs believe that Britain should try for what amounts to a free-rider membership of the single market (ie, staying inside while spurning EU rules on employment, the environment, fisheries and the like).

    ECONOMIST: Bagehot

  • He appointed an envoy to South-West Asia (ie, Afghanistan and Pakistan): Richard Holbrooke, a veteran diplomat.

    ECONOMIST: Barack Obama's start

  • That is not just money, but a trade-off of lower yields for more resistance (ie, the opposite of what Borlaug achieved).

    ECONOMIST: Wheat rust and world farming

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