The bank model focuses on the establishment of a local social currency pegged to the Brazilian Real, encouraging community members to spend within Conjunto Palmeira.

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Besides the transparency issue in the SA process (which can lead some to the manipulation conclusion) which the BLS could easily remedy simply by publishing the changed data on a monthly basis, the Establishment Survey suffers from a significant upward bias, known as the Birth-Death model.

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In Milwaukee, the model city for vouchers, where a group of mainly poor black mothers convinced the city's Democratic establishment to experiment, supporters of school choice took over the local school board.

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But the establishment clause in the constitution was intended to prevent the creation of an established church, on the model of the Church of England, not to prevent religious believers from expressing their beliefs in the public realm.

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Throughout the IYB steady progress was made towards the establishment of an Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) on the model of the IPCC, pivotal in assessing the science and raising global awareness of climate change.

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