Such considerations may have prompted Thailand's new foreign minister, Mr. Kasem Kasemsri, to suggest that the grouping set up a kind of regional parliament.

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In Bogor, Indonesia, in 1994, it set itself ambitious goals to free up trade and investment within the grouping.

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So our ability to distinguish "man bites dog" from "dog bites man" hinges on the attention that we pay to ordering and grouping, that allows us to get two different meanings out of the same set of words.

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