• The company is highly dependent on its advertising revenues but the ways if has chosen to grow that, through initiatives like Google Plus, are vulnerable to carrier fees.

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  • The BBC reserves the right to disqualify votes if it has reasonable grounds to suspect that fraudulent voting has occurred or if it considers there has been any attempt to rig the voting.

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  • And we certainly expect that if there is not cooperation, if there has not -- if the Assad regime has not fulfilled its obligations under that plan to withdraw its forces, that the international community will be -- will see that very clearly and there will be discussions to decide what should happen next, and how the international community should act in response to that.

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  • Why not use this as an opportunity, if he has or if he hasn't quit smoking, to discuss this with the American people or even offer a warning to young children about smoking?

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  • And even if they were vetted, one has to realize that at a time of war, if one has nothing to hide, these are the norms that under the rule of law need to be respected or observed.

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  • And if someone wants to belong to the heart, then he has to have the possibility, even if he has low income.

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  • The selection in many vending machines has barely changed, if it has changed at all, in a generation.

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  • It is my hope that judges everywhere will continue to do this because...within the American legal system we're commanded to interpret our law in the best way we can, and that means looking to what other, anyone has said to see if it has persuasive value.

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  • Once that is settled, Sprint will know if it has to go alone in its next generation buildout, if the merger is approved, or join forces with TMo which essentially has no other logical options for its future LTE platform.

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  • Never go near a firework that has been lit, even if it has not gone off.

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  • At this writing, it remains unclear whether any crime has been committed or, if it has, whether any prosecution will be forthcoming.

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  • As with health insurance rates, the FDIC's premiums change if it has to settle claims or if it insures a larger pool of money.

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  • For example with travel site Gogobot, this page aggregates information such as how many cities a person has travelled to, how many reviews the person has written, and photos if she has taken and uploaded any to Gogobot.

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  • They could decide to stop the trial if it has already proved more effective, if Vytorin appears more dangerous than Zocor, or if there is no hope that Vytorin will prove more effective.

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  • "I think the majority of the population think that if somebody has got a foetus that, if born, will have a severe disability they should have the right to choose whether or not to continue with that pregnancy, " she said.

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  • I'm glad I have such a flexible workplace and a supervisor who understands that I'll get everything done at the end of the day although my work concentration might get broken up from time to time with cleaning up spilled cereal, reading a story that she just has to hear, and cuddling if she has a gloomy day.

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  • If that has changed - and that is a big if - then the pound could well fall in 2013.

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  • Parker still has some powerful advantages over rivals, even if he has to pay his employees a bit more in coming years.

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  • And that's something that I strongly believe we have to resist, even if it has some costs to it, and even if it's not always the most politically popular thing to do.

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  • Now that the iPhone 5 has been introduced I took another look to see if anything has changed.

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  • By itself (as Mr Schmalensee certainly knows) it does not in fact prove that Microsoft has no monopoly power, or even that, if it has such power, it is choosing for some reason not to exercise it.

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  • But you're right, that if someone has HIV and they get a skin infection - if they see a pimple or a boil - and it doesn't go away, it gets redder, it gets - it grows very quickly, they should take some action and go see a doctor right away.

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  • In the startup world, the tech economy certainly feels as if it has potential to see long-term growth, and if history is an accurate predictor, human capital will far outweigh rules and regulation.

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  • So even though the Central Banker, Alexandre Tombini, has said that he will throw the kitchen sink at inflation if he has to, slower growth is not going to prove popular.

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  • It seems odd to pay a worker compensation because his firm has succumbed to competition from imports, but give him nothing if it has been put out of business by a company up the road, or failed to adapt to changes in technology or in customers' tastes.

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  • Hollande has represented the southern Correze region in parliament since 1988 but many question if he has the right stuff.

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  • But this is merely one of the unanswered questions about the EU that imperils its future--if it has one--and makes it such an unpredictable ally--if it is one.

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  • If TXU has to call into service its "mothballed" natural gas plants, or if new generating capacity in the state isn't enough to meet demand--causing prices to skyrocket--those additional facilities would have mattered quite a bit.

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  • At the end of that period, if there has been no deal, the British Government will have to either suspend the assembly - even if only for a short period to give more room for manoeuvre - or call an assembly election.

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  • Smith has Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer's blessing to instill collaboration among all Microsofties--even if it has to be drilled into them in strict legalese.

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