Not quite as bracing as the prediction above, but equally meritorious, have been the criticisms of Abenomics from world-class economists of which that of Martin Feldstein writing for Project Syndicate on January 17 is representative.

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He first tried painting in 1980, when the company now known as Anheuser-Busch InBev NV sponsored an art project and asked him to create something representative of his sport.

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Cinnamon Stillwell is the West Coast Representative for Campus Watch, a project of the Middle East Forum.

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The Office of the Quartet Representative has given its blessing to the project.

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"We were hostile because we didn't believe in his project, " said Michael Wamen, CGT's representative for the plant.

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More than 1, 500 residents of Benedict Canyon signed a petition expressing their opposition to the project as it was originally proposed, according to a representative of the coalition.

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When I visited last December as the chief representative of the Ford Foundation to review a biodiversity project, the men complained about the lack of access to credits, markets and knowledge to improve their farming.

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