"Unless a revised amount is proposed and approved by Congress, it would appear extremely unwise for GSA to proceed with any lease that resembles what is being reported (in the press), " Istook wrote.

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Cyprus's existing "citizenship by investment" programme will also be revised to reduce the amount of investment required to be eligible from 10m euros to 3m.

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Gold production dropped to 42, 723 ounces on the quarter, a steep decline from 154, 936 ounces of gold in the comparative quarter in 2011 due to the revised mine plan and an unexpected amount of till waste during the restart of the mill process in October.

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The difference is, as Mark Twain once put it, like that between lightning and a lightning bug: Team Obama has unmistakably capitulated at the geo-strategic level and no amount of obfuscations about revised intelligence or "stronger, smarter and swifter" missile defense architectures will conceal that fact.

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Since the peak of optimism last November, the 2010 earnings-per-share forecast for Europe excluding the United Kingdom has been revised down by 17% and the 2011 estimated has been ratcheted down by a similar amount.

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