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  • Rather, they have argued, the Clinton administration's low level of interest in energy policy has brought about current gasoline price spikes in some areas of the nation -- most notably in the Midwest.

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  • Again, I think the reason -- one of the reasons we still see outstanding issues -- and we talked about this in Toronto -- were some of the auto provisions in that.

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  • Having spent a lot of time in Cameroon and having represented the prime minister of Cameroon, you'll don't need a re-branding of the African continent as it relates to tourism and to try to bring dollars in, you need to re-brand some of the leadership in some of these African countries, particularly in Western African and sub-Saharan Africa.

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  • In some ways, the Khan Academy and other start-ups are packing in some elements of these machine-based tutoring systems as they evolve and grow, such that this revolution is really already under way.

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  • So when I was sworn in on that very cold day in January -- some of you may remember -- we lost 750, 000 jobs in that month alone.

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  • Gary Fitzpatrick from the charity Action on Elder Abuse claimed that in some areas in the UK 80% of care homes were non-compliant in some form.

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  • "Earlier today, certain realms were affected by an in-game exploit, resulting in the deaths of player characters and non-player characters in some of the major cities, " wrote a representative going by the name of Nethaera, on Sunday.

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  • Much of this comes down to the notion of the family, which in China - perhaps more than in some of Volvo's traditional markets - is considered hugely important.

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  • Cheaper, lower-quality wines have been available in bag-in-box packaging of some sort for 40 years.

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  • In a nutshell, Rose is responsible for relationships with the myriad developers that end up in News Feeds in some way -- regardless of whether the program is built for Facebook, or simply a program that shows interactions on Facebook.

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  • If you report a profit in three years out of five--or two out of seven in the case of some horse ventures--the presumption is that your business wasn't a hobby, and it's up to the IRS to prove otherwise.

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  • It reviews some of those reports in-house but also farms some of them out to third-party contractors.

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  • Fresh, green grass has begun growing again in some of the hardest-hit marshes of southern Louisiana, but oil continues to wash ashore in places.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • The challenges posed by the so-called fiscal cliff are well known, and the opportunity that Congress has had -- the House of Representatives in particular -- to mitigate some of those challenges has been available to Republicans in the House for many months now, ever since the Senate passed an extension of the tax cuts for 98 percent of the American people.

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  • Is Governor Romney here tomorrow in some kind of Cabinet-level position? (Laughter.) In some kind of audition for that position?

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jay Carney,

  • It turns out that most of the governments in the world have some sort of stable-value policy, in this way also giving up most, if not all, of any ambitions to manage their economies with money-jiggering.

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  • Simplistically stated, if the laws of physics as we know them are correct, the vast majority of the universe--some 96% of it, in fact--consists of this stuff.

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  • "I believe FLEX has positioned itself very well for this through its purchase of Solectron and the success it has had this year in co-designing some of Hewlett-Packard's recent hits in the notebook and netbook space, " he says, adding that Flextronics should trade in the "double digits" next year.

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  • In addition, Lenovo has made or is making plays for PC assets in other regions, notably for Medion in Germany and for some yet-to-be-specified piece of NEC in Japan or elsewhere.

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  • In May 1920, after evicting striking miners in Red Jacket, some of the Baldwin-Felts men tried to board a train in nearby Matewan but were confronted by the mayor and the chief of police, Sid Hatfield, a former miner, who had family ties to the Hatfields in the feud.

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  • In addition to general EXPO admission, GameStop is offering a limited number of VIP admissions that include up to four in-depth sessions with some of the biggest names in gaming, access to VIP-only lines and entrance to the VIP gaming lounge.

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  • But even with the GOP's new push to present itself as a party of inclusion, rather than an organization of political partisans intent on going on the offensive against the Democrats -- as they did in San Diego in 1996 -- some minority members of the party remained dissatisfied Monday night.

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  • Robert Guei still commanded the loyalty of some sections of the army, particularly those recruited during his period in power - some of whom were thought by journalists in Abidjan to be involved in Thursday's fighting.

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  • In this region, the United States sees a huge opportunity to increase our exports in some of the fastest-growing markets in the world.

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  • The shortage of places in primary schools reflects a growth in the birth rate - with some areas facing an increase of 25% or above in the primary school population.

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  • In an effort to meet the demand in the meantime, the authority has set up classes in Welsh within the grounds of some English-medium schools in the city, described by some as schools within schools.

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  • Aerial footage afterward showed that some metal framing -- some of it covered in a blue material -- crumpled on the stage, which was in front of a large grassy area.

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  • Either it slows, or in some cases--depending on economic situations in their countries of origin--immigrants in the U.S. may return to their home countries.

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  • The printer's shell is made of an unfinished wood with some rough corners -- in fact, one of our editors managed to get a splinter from one of the sides during the setup process -- and the sides are held together with a number of visible screws.

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