• Because, like it or not - and Germans don't - competitiveness is inherently relative.

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  • The government could not-and did not-oppose this expert testimony with any contrary evidence.

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  • But, as office manager she had the power to make my job easy or not -- and she chose not.

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  • Although some are registered with the authorities, many are not - and even if they are, there is a way round it.

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  • But I reiterate that we have not -- did not -- and did not see those documents, nor were we contacted about seeing those documents beforehand.

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  • If they're not--and if the Treasury's rescue plan is needed--the House will likely need to abandon its strict spending rules at the expense of the federal budget.

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  • Because the 17 governments that decided to adopt the euro will not - and maybe cannot - promise that their taxpayers are willing to pay the consequences.

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  • Another issue, whether he likes it or not - and he's bound to dislike it intensely - will be the focus, in the years to come, on who will be his wife.

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  • While many of the big beasts of the union movement have built their reputation on confrontation, O'Grady has not - and according to The Daily Telegraph columnist Dan Hodges, some will want to continue to do it their way.

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  • "We have opened our training sessions before the match to the public and they were free to choose to come and support us or not - and they proved their loyalty by appearing at training and supporting us, " the coach said.

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  • Since 4 May 2006 a couple who live together as if married (or as if they were a registered same-sex partnership) have had rights and obligations between them, whether they like it or not - and even whether they know about it or not.

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  • But I think there's New Orleans fatigue, not - and it's become old news and I think that's sad and I think maybe we need to bring some of the issues about the rebuilding of New Orleans back into the news, and I think violence - senseless violence like this has become part and parcel of how it goes down in New Orleans, sadly.

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  • You also touch on what has become, in some people's minds, urban legend, in other people's minds that big question mark, as to whether or not - and we saw it historically - and you talk about the, quote, bombing of the levees, the opening up of the waters to save other areas in the city and pouring it in on the 9th Ward, the poor section of New Orleans.

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  • But it is also the case that it is not -- has not been and continues not to be an immediate threat to -- it's not the creation or the problem behind our deficits and debt at the time.

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  • "The only side effect that was higher among patients taking the pill was foot and hand problems -- soreness and redness -- which are not life-threatening and do not require hospitalization, " Hoff explained.

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  • Our national security framework, in short, is not -- and should not be -- designed primarily to handle the burdens of discovery accompanying ordinary civil litigation.

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  • "Ms. Rowe has not accepted -- and will not accept -- any additional financial consideration beyond the spousal support she and Michael Jackson personally agreed to several years ago, " George said.

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  • Although I was on the road with the family, I was able to check in with the markets on a regular basis and was a little disturbed to hear the talking heads jawing about things suddenly looking not-too-hot and not-too-cold.

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  • The problem is that there is a world of difference between what is deemed to be an appropriate reward at the top of big companies - and not just banks - and what many of you would see as appropriate.

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  • And what the executive order I'm going to be signing today does is to create a 90-day plan that allows optimal coordination as we move forward, in addition to the coordination that we're doing with private sector companies and not-for-profits and other organizations out there that are interested in this issue.

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  • When I decided to break away from my cubicle-bound life, I was 23 years old, the daughter of a protective family in India and had graduated from university in Singapore only two years earlier with a not-so-helpful Economics degree and a not-so-comforting amount of student debt.

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  • In-patient care is provided in public and private hospitals (not-for-profit and for-profit).

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  • Three judges ruled the original sentences should have been consecutive and not concurrent - and replaced them with "just and proportionate" sentences.

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  • The port layout seems reasonable, the LED-backlit screen bright and not-too-terribly-glossy, and the brushed metal finish on the back is surely a nice touch.

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  • We know it's an electrical - and not a structural - issue and that will be the focus for the inspectors.

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  • And as somebody who covered then-senator Obama on the campaign trail, who spoke with great eloquence about using U.S. force and the force of the international community -- not just words and not just sanctions -- but the force of the international community to stop slaughter.

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  • You transmit both the two-and-a-half minutes -- not the 43 -- the reaction that's based off the two-and-a-half minutes, not the 43, and decisions are made on personnel based on that.

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  • He did not suggest -- did not mean and did not suggest that the Court -- it would be unprecedented for the Court to rule that a law was unconstitutional.

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  • Williamson's work examines why large corporations tend to arise -- and why they do not -- based on the cost and complexity of transactions, according to the Nobel committee.

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  • Mixing for-profit and not-for-profit cultures is never easy, of course, and the partnerships are sometimes tricky to manage.

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