The expansion of copper and gold mining in Chile and Peru has mainly occurred in arid areas and has led to competition for scarce water with both export agriculture and the needs of the indigenous population.
The debate over the constitutionality of the individual mandate has mainly focused on whether the federal government has the right to make every resident of the country to purchase a particular product.
Unlike most of its partners in the 17-nation eurozone, Germany has mainly escaped the worst effects of the crisis that has threatened to unravel the bloc.
He has been mainly adding since then, but has made a few small sales.
Blame has fallen mainly on Guido Westerwelle, the foreign minister, who has dominated the party for the past decade.
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Mainly, that has been because so far there have been no really big controversies.
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Mr Marianna says this is mainly because Germany has a very efficient manufacturing sector.
So far Microsoft has mainly treated content as something that its software managers can create from scratch.
Until now egg freezing has mainly been restricted to cancer patients whose eggs may be damaged by chemotherapy.
But Mr Brown has mainly used a more circuitous method of financing redistribution: taxes on pensions and business.
But that has mainly been achieved by cutting costs, not by growing revenues.
Historically, the Bolshoi's role in the cross-current has mainly been to export talent.
President Bush has mainly provided Europeans with an excuse for refusing the kind of cooperation they'd rather not provide anyway.
Ballesteros retired from competitive playing in 2007 because of back trouble and since then has mainly concentrated on designing courses.
The two clans' power, especially that of the Talabanis, from whose party the Change movement was mainly drawn, has been weakened.
September 13, 2012 Fujifilm has mainly provided negative films for shooting and positive films for projection in its motion picture film business operations.
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Set between two lakes, the town was chosen mainly because it has a reasonable mix of Protestants and Catholics, as well as two thriving integrated schools.
But until recently, it has mainly served as a financing vehicle for the central government to help fund the construction of airports, highways and other infrastructure projects.
What is not so usual is that the fall in earnings has mainly come through everyone in work being paid less - not from a relatively small fraction losing their jobs.
If Mr Campbell is not the obvious Republican front-runner, this is mainly because he has much less money than his two billionaire challengers from Silicon Valley, Meg Whitman and Stephen Poizner.
Since the 1950s large-scale immigration to Britain has mainly been from Africa, the Caribbean and South Asia, meaning that arguments about immigration have been racially charged (indeed, plenty of politicians have deliberately conflated the issues).
This conundrum got me to thinking a lot about Kaiser Permanente, mainly because compliance has become a mandate as the government puts pressure on hospitals to produce tangible, quantifiable results in their treatment of the elderly.
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"There has been a shift from your traditional old gun-club crowd, " says Patrick Gilligan, the 30-year-old president of San Francisco Pacific Rod and Gun Club, an 80-year-old organization that until recently has mainly attracted much older members.
President Obama, who has mainly limited his comments about New Orleans to feel-good boilerplate, did pledge to make good on President Bush's promise on that eerie, floodlit night in a deserted Jackson Square in 2005, to rebuild New Orleans better and stronger.
While Strefy Piwa has mainly Polish and Czech beers on tap -- including an India Pale Ale (IPA) made by Artezan, a small craft brewery near Warsaw -- the bar also offers a wide range of bottled brews from countries such as the US, Netherlands and Belgium.
Egalitarianism has mainly been a feature of high-tech firms, though not only of start-ups: the authors compiled figures on 100 big high-tech firms and found that on average employees owned 33% of those companies' equity, of which 14% was held by the top managers and 19% by other employees.
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For the last few years, Twitter has mainly been a tool for tech insiders and news junkies, just as CNN initially appealed primarily to a hard-core, but limited audience of news obsessives until the start of the Gulf War, when everyone tuned in for news on the war as it broke.
Conversely, BMI may underestimate body fat in a very small-framed person, someone who has very little muscle mass, or a person who carries his or her excess weight mainly around the midsection and has very thin arms and legs (the so called apple shaped body type).
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