He said the government should not write a "blank cheque" on behalf of energy customers at a time when people are struggling to pay their bills.

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Companies like Google or General Electric should not be allowed to write-off losses to the extent that their federal taxes are next to zero, even as they are registering profits.

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That annoyed parliamentarians and others who say elected politicians, not activists, should write laws.

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If they really consider it, they should write for them, not at them.

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The question was, should we write them down or not?

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Dr. Ben Bobrow, who also helped write the new AHA guidelines, says the controversy should not be overblown.

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The fact that these authors chose to write these pronouncements as books should begin to tell you that things may not be so world-changing as they make out.

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The forthcoming UNESCO Education For All Global Monitoring Report estimates that some 61 million primary school - age children still have no access to school, while 250 million children who should have reached fourth grade cannot read or write whether they are in school or not.

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Michael Arrington over at Techcrunch has rather taken to his soapbox to demand that journalists should walk out of their jobs at even the merest hint of their bosses telling them what not to write.

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Just as software code is not patentable, because there are so many ways to write code that does the same thing, you should be patenting the application, the method for doing something, not a specific relationship between hardware and software.

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