Choosing the former is safer, the latter more difficult, but with more scope for long-term growth.

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International action for the long term goes beyond the scope of any one meeting.

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That difficulty is troubling, but not fatal, not least because we are interpreting the scope of a long-established constitutional power, not recognizing a new constitutional right.

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However, due to the nature of distributed computing, ongoing transactions between individuals and companies would be technically outside the scope of potential regulatory action as long as there is electricity and internet connectivity.

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So long as their actions are reasonable, and the scope of the intrusion and the duration of the deprivation is not egregious, the search will be deemed constitutional.

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The firm also says that such packages must be appropriately balanced between short-term and long-term interests as well as reflect the entire scope of the operations.

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If growth peters out, bond yields will fall further but bad loans will rise and the difference between short- and long-term rates will narrow, since there is little scope for the Fed to push short-term rates down further than their current 1%.

ECONOMIST: Buttonwood

In his last update, in July 2012, Sir John said the inquiry had made "extensive progress" in drafting its report - expected to be about a million words long - but that the inquiry was "unprecedented" in scope and the issues were "complex".

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Scope also uses promotional tricks, ranging from a month-long promotion of maternity and baby clothes to adverts featuring Chris Tarrant, a television personality, appealing for vinyl records (rapidly becoming collectors' items), to lure in customers.

ECONOMIST: Charity shops

By failing at the onset of the crisis to indicate that certain limited exceptions would be made, the United States forfeited to the United Nations the task of defining the scope of this loophole, and weakened the weight of a long-standing U.S. policy to oppose the use of food as a weapon in settling disputes.

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Casting further doubt on the scope for compromise, each bank is insisting that it will merge only so long as its existing strategy remains intact.

ECONOMIST: German banks