It has already been announced that the scheme will no longer be universal, and large chunks of the NHS have now opted out - in London, no GP and few hospitals will take part.

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Comcast is primarily a cable company, but its recent purchase of NBC Universal has generated a large content ownership facet.

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Florida, home to Walt Disney World, for example, has state officials who inspect rides at theme parks with fewer than 1, 000 employees, but the state relies on large parks like Disney World and Universal Studios to regulate themselves.

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"I have some confidence that there will be support in the Senate, including from several Democrats in states with large populations who are gun owners, for passing universal background checks, funding to encourage better reporting to the NICS (National Instant Criminal Background Check System) mental health disqualifications, and measures to strengthen laws that can be used to prosecute and deter illegal gun trafficking, " Webster said.

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The lesson for voters is that universal health care is going to have universally large costs.

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He is the nephew of Edir Macedo, who runs the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God, a large network of Pentecostal churches.

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Near-universal skepticism on the funding of any kind of large government stimulus means upside risks to growth expectations, not downside risks, if it does materialize in 2013.

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The announcement promises deploying large numbers of health workers to cover more and more children under the Universal Immunisation Programme (UIP), one of the world's largest immunisation programmes, covering some 26 million children born each year.

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Education, once limited to a lucky few males living in large cities, or whose families could afford to send them abroad, is now universal and free.

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