The agency will have to write the new rules within a year, possibly sooner.

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At the rate things are going, the yuan will reach parity against the dollar, measured by unit labor costs, about two years from now, possibly sooner.

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Their latest minutes suggest sentiment by some members for slowing or ending the announced open market purchases by the end of 2013, or possibly even sooner.

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Improving economic indicators and Barisan's morale-boosting victory in Sabah's state election in March also point to polls sooner rather than later, possibly before Parliament convenes its budget session in October.

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Two years ago another Harvard researcher, Tanya Smith, found that by the time we first faced our beetle-browed cousins, their childhoods were not only briefer than ours, they were shrinking possibly an evolutionary "effort" to continue the species by getting to childbearing age sooner.

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