And while the South Americans may well agree to meet regularly, it is unlikely that they will make democracy a condition of membership of any new club they set up as it has been for Mercosur since 1996.

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You place in front of them a billion pound carrot of borrowing powers - a golden carrot, if you like, but on condition that Silk or a broad swathe of it is implemented - and you make that explicit deal very public in advance.

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"It makes common sense that respiratory insults may make a child more prone to developing an inflammatory condition of the lungs, " said Dr. Kenneth Kim, an allergist.

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But it was the right thing to do, to make sure that if you've got a preexisting condition, you can still get health insurance. (Applause.) It was the right thing to do.

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The patent body allowed Natco to legally make and sell the low-cost version of Bayer's drug on the condition that it pay a royalty of about 6% of the net sales from the drug to the German company.

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