In most rich countries the detailed plans for fiscal austerity contrast sharply with a lamentable lack of microeconomic ambition.

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Mr McBride, by contrast, suffers from a lack of name recognition.

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By contrast, it's a lack of star power that has made the Leafs' recent success that much more surprising.

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Rai's lack of interest in reality TV is in stark contrast to the broadcast philosophy of Silvio Berlusconi's network.

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By contrast the conference host - Mr Schwarzenegger - sees lack of international agreement as an opportunity.

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But there is an increasingly glaring contrast between Qatar's support for revolutions abroad and Qataris' lack of representation at home.

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But in contrast to its Western partners, who essentially paid for their own fear and lack of vision, Germany lent money for a concrete purpose: German unification.

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The ambiguities of the GNU Public license are responsible in part for Apple's lack of interest in developing for the many Linux distributions that are licensed under GPL. By contrast, said Sanchez, BSD groups do not demand that users of FreeBSD or NetBSD code contribute their innovations to the community, and are therefore more friendly to corporations.

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