• Or Mr Barghouti could be elected in Mr Abbas's place but remain in prison as a diplomatic pawn, waiting for Israel to extract some public promises from him before his release.

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  • Consumers have borrowed more money against the rising value of their homes, allowing them to extract some of their capital gains and so spend more than their income: the saving rate has fallen from 9% in 1990 to minus 2% last year.

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  • And not in some heroic fight to defend sovereign territory, not on some suicide mission to extract a prisoner or save a family in distress.

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  • The researchers were able to extract cells from some of their blastocysts, and grow tissues containing all three cell types.

    ECONOMIST: An embryonic development

  • That may well be in part because the government wants a bit of wriggle room to get its legislation through the House of Lords without setting itself a tight deadline, which could give opponents of its various big bills some extra leverage with which to extract concessions.

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  • But there was also a very striking moment when I was traveling with them in which we went into a classroom full of schoolchildren, and the Iraqi colonel I was with was eager to extract from these children some information about two suspects that he and his men were searching for.

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  • It plans to tap some of the thousands of asteroids that pass relatively close to Earth and extract their raw materials.

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  • Koch should be able to extract synergies by reintegrating Georgia-Pacific's business with some of the operations it had bought from the Atlanta firm in 2004.

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  • The chairman of the Treasury select committee has taken centre stage at Westminster, managing to extract apology after apology from the four men held responsible, by some, for the entire UK banking crisis.

    BBC: Banking bosses head for a McFall

  • We're getting pushback, obviously, from some of the bigger carriers who would like to be able to charge more fees and extract more money from wealthier customers.

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  • " Indeed, some of our favorite scents cannot be found in nature: several musks (traditionally an extract from a gland of the Himalayan musk deer), ambers (a blend of resins) and lemons, as well as "at least two crucial lily-of-the-valley components.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Here are some ideas: Mining companies could help combat poverty by giving away a percentage of what they extract to local indigenous people.

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  • As a result, the lawyer said, guilty pleas are most likely and companies that choose to litigate are far more likely to win some concessions, like fewer individuals convicted or a lower fine than the DoJ had been hoping to extract.

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  • At the moment, it is not clear whether the rhetoric is really a negotiating ploy, in which the administration blusters in order to build credibility and extract maximum concessions when the time comes to negotiate, or whether it wants to change international relations in some fundamental way.

    ECONOMIST: Working out the world

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