Most economists are forecasting similar modest growth for this year, though no less an authority than Alan Greenspan placed the odds of a recession in the next year at one-in-three.

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There will be no meetings at Hereford Racecourse next year, the British Horseracing Authority (BHA) has said.

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Last year, the local authority said it could no longer afford the pool at the new leisure centre being built on the Merland Rise recreation ground site.

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"We can learn lessons from this economic Crisis, " says Anan Itchayapruks, assistant governor in charge of human resource development at the state-owned Petroleum Authority of Thailand, No. 144 in this year's Asiaweek 1000 ranking of the region's largest companies.

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Ignoring the judge's written order and verbal reminder, the four reporters revealed his name anyway, arguing that since he had given one "on-the-record" interview last year (coincidentally with Ms. Shephard), the judge had no authority to protect his identity.

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And while a special bipartisan congressional committee representing both the House and Senate (to be called the Gang of 12, I suppose) will have the authority to recommend tax reform later this year, there is no reason to believe it will do so.

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"They were a public company until the first of the year, they had a separate board, separate compensation committee and we had no authority to tell them what to do, just urged them what to do, " Lewis said.

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Contrary to the NTIA's recommendation, the Librarian of Congress ruled that phones purchased after January of this year would no longer be exempted from the DMCA. The law gives the Librarian the authority to establish or eliminate exceptions -- and we respect that process.

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