The effect of this new provision, which was strongly pushed by the NFL in its negotiations with the NFLPA, is to create a couple of advantages for NFL teams: (1) the Tag numbers will be lower, pulling from a more dated pool of numbers, and (2) teams can now use the Tag designation as a greater leverage point in negotiations that is stronger than it was previously.

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The BLS draws its teen unemployment numbers from the same data pool that supplies the adult unemployment number, the so-called household survey.

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According to scouts, the declining numbers are beginning to alter the talent pool in ways that could have a noticeable impact on player quality.

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Despite the understanding that specific diseases may afflict relatively small numbers of individuals, this overall growing pool of patients is now becoming an attractive opportunity for the pharmaceutical industry.

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So we need as big a pool of candidates as possible to compare the numbers and float our final Web Celeb 25 to the top.

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So the new government will face colossal challenges: the huge numbers of frustrated, unemployed Iraqi youths are a willing pool of recruits, not just for insurgent groups but also for the armed gangs and criminal underworld that hold sway in many parts of the country.

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Moreover, the large numbers of people passing through the scheme and gaining experience of work would enlarge the pool of employable labour.

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The net result would be increased revenue, either from high earners who simply desired to keep their tax breaks in their coffers or, hopefully from a real increase in job creation that will lead to a wider pool of tax payers who will increase revenue by the weight of their numbers.

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