• Some board members are keen on a European investment-banking tie-up, perhaps with Banque Nationale de Paris, which recently took control of a rival French bank, Paribas, and which has a longstanding alliance (and small cross-shareholding) with Dresdner.

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  • And most important of all, in terms of the health of British public life, a global audience witnessed a small cross-party group of Britain's elected representatives doing what they should have been doing for the last 30 years: holding the press, and Murdoch in particular, accountable for their actions rather than scurrying away like a bunch of frightened rabbits in the glare of News Corp.

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  • Nadia Eweida, a British Airways check-in clerk who had been suspended by the company for insisting on wearing a small silver cross, had been vindicated.

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  • "We are very aware that while the risk of infection from insulin pen re-use is extremely small, cross-contamination from an insulin pen is possible, " Finan said.

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  • Dr. Deisher is Catholic and wears a small gold cross, while Dr. Sherley is Baptist, but both say their views on the matter are driven by ethics, not religion.

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  • Driven by a key-wound spring, the monk walks in a square, striking his chest with his right arm, raising and lowering a small wooden cross and rosary in his left hand, turning and nodding his head, rolling his eyes, and mouthing silent obsequies.

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  • The road will cross a small stream and continue parallel to the stream for some time before the first blue cross appears on the side barrier of a small cement bridge.

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  • At last month's auto show in Detroit, Mercedes-Benz showed a vehicle called "Vision-B, " a small but tall five-door cross between a small station wagon, a small minivan and a small SUV.

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  • She says the numbers involved are small but they cross all social classes and age groups.

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  • In additive manufacturing, material is added in small layers, cross section by cross section, to build a part.

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  • Some Labour members have joined the small but growing cross-party ginger-group that advocates unilateral Israeli withdrawal from most of the territories, and the construction of a strongly defended border fence.

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  • Among the conference's other significant insights: the tax base of an independent Scotland, or other small countries open to cross-border migration of income and assets, may have to focus ever more on items that can't be moved, such as buildings and land.

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  • Now Apple is training its employees to look for opportunities to sell more products and services to small and medium business, Cross writes.

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  • It also includes small touches, such as cross-ventilation and computer carrels in the kitchens to allow parents to help children with homework while they are cooking dinner.

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  • Moreover, despite the obvious role of contraception as a proximate determinant of fertility, the additional effect of contraceptive availability or family planning on fertility is quantitatively small and explains very little cross country variation.

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  • The report calls on a specific budgetary allocation for the Black Sea strategy, with a priority on funding small-scale development projects and cross-border co-operation.

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  • The summit also produced several other pledges, such as one to allow the cross-listing of small firms' shares, that will remain just talk for now.

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  • Every year thousands of young Senegalese, mostly young men, get into small fishing boats and attempt to cross the ocean to get to Spain.

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  • The Department of Health and Human Services has identified a small-group policy offered by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Georgia as the model for Georgia.

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  • To cross the chasm from the small group of experts to the much larger group of business-focused users, one must find specific business problems to solve and create purpose-built solutions.

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  • Legal status would open the door for these immigrants and their children to further increase their contributions to the U.S. economy and to start small businesses that would capitalize on their cross-border networks.

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  • Starting exponential companies requires relatively small amounts of money, and entrepreneurs with cross-disciplinary knowledge and skills have the advantage.

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  • The committee has suggested that it should only be optional for a two year transitional period, becoming compulsory thereafter for large cross-border companies, with small businesses being forced to join a common system after a further five years.

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  • In a famous episode, Christ on the Cross came to life three times in the small Church of St.

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  • Because it was too expensive to deploy all the computers needed to serve small local markets, fiber-optic backbones now serve mainly as cross-country thruways, but the shift to optics could let fiber networks extend farther into neighborhoods than ever before.

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  • Some of Mr de la Rua's advisers urge him to form a new cross-party coalition, based on Mr Cavallo's small party and the Peronist governors, who are more appreciative of economic orthodoxy than many of Mr de la Rua's nominal supporters.

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  • Fiserv Inc. a leading financial technology services provider, pools the information assets from a base of more than 2, 000 banks to enable its small and medium sized bank clients to build more effective retention, growth and cross-sell strategies.

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  • The device is small enough to be worn under clothing, and is disposable, so risk of cross-infection from other patients is eliminated.

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  • In January 2014, private insurance companies like UnitedHealth Group (UNH), Aetna (AET), Humana (HUM), Cigna (CI) and a host of Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans will be providing subsidized coverage to individuals and small businesses via state or federally-regulated exchanges established under the health law.

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