At the risk of hurting British egos, they simply don't see Britain - especially with a declining defence budget - as anything more than a medium-sized power in its own right.

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Neither Britain's small, professional forces nor Germany's large, conscript forces were designed to fight an offensive land war against a medium-sized European power.

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One measure is free grid connection for small-and-medium-scale solar power producers.

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Hard assets will benefit as a hedge from the medium and long-term reduction in purchasing power of various world currencies, he said.

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So he will do everything he can within his power -- small, medium and large -- to assist the American people in this economy, to help them with their student loans, to help underwater homeowners refinance their mortgages, to provide facilitated access through federal government programs for small and large businesses -- everything he can, step by step.

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The plant, as they conceived it, would produce something like one to three gigawatts of power, which is enough to serve a medium-sized city.

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"We will establish an energy mix with which people can feel safe in the long- and medium-term, based on our policy that we will not rely on nuclear power, " he said.

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But for the insistence of the Marine Corps that this aircraft was essential if it were to retain -- indeed, to increase dramatically -- its combat lift and power projection capabilities despite the approaching block obsolescence of it existing inventory of medium lift helicopters, and the indefatigable support of visionary congressional leaders, there would be no production aircraft on display at the Pentagon tomorrow.

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