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  • The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board, a self-regulatory body that reports to the Securities and Exchange Commission, has proposed rules that would require brokers to ask clients about the importance of state tax benefits, explain a client's direct-sold in-state plan for comparison purposes, and determine what is most suitable for the client--instead of just pushing broker-sold out-of-state plans that might carry higher commissions for them.

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  • The young woman had parked her sled at the precise point I would hit if I lost control of my own and slid straight--instead of skidding racecar-style through the curve.

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  • While the materials and construction methods are similar to standard pylons, one point of departure is the colour - white instead of gun-metal grey.

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  • Schreier's clientele, these big printers, face increasing demand to combine shorter runs--thousands instead of millions of copies--with personalized color.

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  • Leroy is using the Internet to make this happen: Deere's construction equipment dealers now E-mail their orders and forecasts daily -- instead of monthly -- right to the factory.

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  • Agricultural output was also greatly stimulated by the creation of three-field farming instead of the old Roman practice of two-field farming.

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  • The plans would allow nursery staff to look after four babies instead of three and six two-year-olds, instead of the current limit of four.

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  • Well, Sir Mervyn King will be relieved to hear that Wadhwani does not like the idea of targeting nominal GDP - the cash value of the economy - instead of inflation.

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  • It has the texture of a slightly melted Cadbury Creme Egg, with a shell made of crumbled cookies instead of chocolate and filled with refreshing lemon-bergamot sorbet instead of oozing sugar.

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  • But the provincial authorities, he argues, cannot force them to build local clinics instead of state-of-the-art hospitals, or to surface dirt roads instead of building showy suspension bridges.

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  • "Food sovereignty" - a term adopted instead of the better-known notion of "food security" - was hailed by many as a key step for developing nations to become more resilient to emerging food crises.

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  • For health care we will finally see the return of genuine insurance--coverage for major risks, instead of the dollar-for-dollar kind of coverage we have now.

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  • He continued, the essence of this tragedy - and note, he says tragedy instead of act of war - the essence of this tragedy, it seems to me, derives from a fundamental absence of empathy on the part of the attackers, an inability to imagine or connect with the humanity and suffering of others.

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  • This, he says, demonstrates that his former boss is betting on the future success of online business-education programmes instead of the top-ranked schools.

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  • There is also a feeling that some of the newer technologies, such as making fuselages lighter by building them out of carbon-composites instead of aluminium, may not yet be cost-effective for smaller aircraft.

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  • In normal times the opportunity cost of holding non-yielding gold, instead of interest-bearing bank deposits or government bonds, is high.

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  • These "passive" 3-D technology systems put most of the technical heavy lifting on the TV screen -- instead of on the glasses, as was the case with older models.

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  • Get up from your desk and go talk to your co-workers instead of e-mailing them.

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  • That convinced Samsung to adjust its target audience to 12- to 17-year-olds instead of 18- to 24-year-olds.

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  • Using Li-poly instead of Li-ion is a strategic move: these batteries are more resistant to overcharging and offer a lower likelihood of leakage.

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  • It just remains rear-facing instead of front-facing.

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  • At Esbooks, a Japanese book Web site set up last November, 93% of people who bought books have chosen to pick them up at 7-Eleven instead of having them home-delivered.

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  • He said criticism of the tax package reminded him of the carping he faced during the health-care debate, when many on the left fixated on the inability to create a government-run health-insurance option instead of lauding an expansion of health-insurance coverage to 30 million people.

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  • PC's hard-drive is a mere four megabytes instead of the 40-50 megabytes of the uncompressed version.

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  • Paragraph 4.118 explains the elaborate efforts involved in coming up with such a large number, which include delaying payments to bodies such as the World Bank, by a matter of weeks, so as to get them into the 2013-14 tax year instead of 2012-13.

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  • It led Sony, for example, to re-invent itself as a content-provider instead of a gadget-maker.

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  • The fourth stage will be held on June 15-16 instead of June 19-20 in Sharqia, Gharbia, Assiut, Kafr el-Sheikh, Fayoum and Ismailia.

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