Instead, the Department of Commerce and e-commerce firms are pushing for a different solution: in effect, a new system of private laws, which would avoid the requirement to abide by the laws of the countries where their customers live.

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This seems like this is one of those issues where every solution has an equal and opposite damaging effect.

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Under these circumstances, diversification among such sources is but a stop-gap solution that can, at best, have a temporary effect on oil supply and, hence, on national security.

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"Combined with control of entitlement spending and a long-term solution to the Alternative Minimum Tax, this can have a beneficial effect on long-run growth, " the report says.

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As a side effect, the Los Angeles financier may also contribute to the solution to the U.S. housing crisis.

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The focus after QE3 quickly shifted to the prospect of the Fiscal Cliff, where the Budget Control Act, which goes into effect on January 1, 2013 unless Congress and the President compromise on a solution to repeal the law.

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Instead of pumping carefully metered quantities of the solution into the tower, the operators were instructed to mix it by hand in what were, in effect, ten-litre stainless-steel buckets.

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