• 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

  • Using IE in this way is quite good, as it's finger-friendly and responsive, and of course in this way you're encouraged to use all the great Windows 8 gestures, which become intuitive enough after only a few minutes of use.

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  • It applies only to farmers who already have the seed (ie those in Rio Grande do Sul).

    ECONOMIST: GM crops in Brazil

  • Remember, it was also supposed to be back on the market two years after its 2010 rescue package - ie. in 2012.

    BBC: More market alarm bells on Portugal

  • When tested against biochemical networks established the old way (ie, in the laboratory), the results agreed often enough to make newly suggested links worth pursuing.

    ECONOMIST: A genetic paperchase

  • Although Mr Meshal has more weight, plenty of other Hamas leaders have said many times that Israel is a reality, that they want a Palestinian state along the 1967 ceasefire lines (ie, in the West Bank and Gaza only), and that one day, perhaps after a few decades of peaceful coexistence, they might put the question of formally recognising Israel to a Palestinian referendum.

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  • Outsourcing is the topic of this article, in particular outsourcing to firms that use maquiladora production ie, manufacturing in Mexican border towns, for re-export to America.

    ECONOMIST: A look at noteworthy articles from business journals

  • Scrolling through webpages in IE 10 felt smooth, and we shockingly didn't notice any tiling as we zoomed in and out.

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  • It has a nifty word finder that doesn't require opening up a separate dialog box as in IE.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Even more strikingly, by 2050, the number of people coming towards the end of their working lives (ie, those in their 50s) will have risen by more than 10%.

    ECONOMIST: Demography

  • Kevin Norrish of Barclays says that short positions in copper (ie, those betting on a price fall) are their highest in two years, a sign that hedge funds may be expecting a global downturn.

    ECONOMIST: Making sense of the fall in commodity prices

  • One of the most important reforms of the past half-decade was brought in by Franco Bassanini, minister for public administration (ie, red tape) in the outgone government, who drastically reduced the number of pieces of paper needed to get a job or start up a firm.

    ECONOMIST: A survey of Italy

  • For the generation born in 2000-04, it was 124 (ie, 124 boys were born in those years for every 100 girls).

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  • The others had died in 1969 (ie, at the age of 73, the average life expectancy at birth of women born around Boston in 1896).

    ECONOMIST: Ageing

  • Pino Bethencourt is a professor and leadership expert at IE Business School, in Madrid.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • The problem occurs with the MS06-42 update which tried to fix eight separate vulnerabilities in the IE browser.

    BBC: NEWS | Technology | Hackers target latest Windows fix

  • Tetzchner does not think IE has significantly improved in five years, apart from in the area of security.

    CNN: Browser choice benefits Web users

  • 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

  • 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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  • What's more, senior Whitehall officials have long worried that IDS's plan for a new Universal Credit could go the way of the health reforms - ie they sound good in theory but may prove bureaucratic, costly and unpopular in practice.

    BBC: Cabinet reshuffle - the best laid plans....

  • Since Metro IE is plug-in-free by default, Flash works without any additional setup required. (If you want to disable Flash in the desktop version, though, you'll find that option in the add-on manager.) And in case you're wondering about Flash's diminished role on mobile devices, well, we're told it'll work with both x86 and ARM devices.

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  • Real short-term interest rates in Japan (ie, adjusted for inflation) are zero or even slightly negative.

    ECONOMIST: Japan

  • The software will analyse photographs and look for similarities, thus understanding how the contents of the pictures relate to each other, ie next to it, in front of it etc.

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  • 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.

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  • And, like other shares, but unlike mutual funds, they can be bought on margin (ie, for an initial downpayment) or sold short (ie, borrowed and sold in the hope that the price will fall) which allows much more sophisticated trading strategies.

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  • One reason for the agonising over this speech has been what one source calls "getting the diplomacy right" ie ensuring that potential allies in Europe - the Germans, Dutch and the Swedes who have, so far, backed Britain's call for a freeze in the EU Budget - are clear that Mr Cameron is not capitulating to those who want Britain out of Europe.

    BBC: Europe - Why Cameron's speech is proving so hard to write

  • This is the basis of the Balassa-Samuelson theory which holds that average prices will be higher in countries with higher productivity (ie, high GDP per head), because higher wages will push up prices in labour-intensive goods and services.

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  • In December the Bank of Japan was forced to cut interest rates almost to zero, ie, back to where they last were in 2006.

    ECONOMIST: Japan

  • Or is that 77.5%, with the 22.5% being actual money and the rest conditional (ie, really, a bond in the bank).

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  • Those defendants had strong arguments that they neither controlled PwC India nor culpably participated in the fraud (ie, acted with scienter).

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