Head down to Brazil, and the scale of pre-salt finds have been enormous for Petrobras (700 million barrels in the Campos Basin alone).

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Obama asserted that al-Qaida is "on the path to defeat, " reducing the scale of terrorism to pre-Sept. 11 levels.

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Their common interest lies in a shared desire to bail out those among the G-7 governments and banks that engaged imprudently in large-scale financial flows to Moscow in the pre-coup period.

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While the technology is pre-commercial right now, Atlantis has built full-scale, functional unit, he said.

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The main exemptions from the mandatory labelling system will be for small-scale traditional producers and for fresh produce that is not pre-packed.

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"If we had a whiff of a return to pre-Keynesian finance we could end up with a crisis that mirrors the scale of the great depression, " he says.

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The goal is to establish a pre-qualified pool of private sector partners positioned to finance development of large scale renewable energy projects and re-coup their capital investment through the sale of energy to the Army, and excess energy back to the grid.

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Ms Lagarde also said that central banks in Asia should begin to think about the timing and scale of reductions in monetary support for their economies and about returning fiscal balances to pre-2008 levels.

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