• This is sometimes known as the Laffer Curve, and this common-sense theory is explained in the following video.

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  • Sometimes known as supply-side economics, this is the simple notion that lower tax rates will boost work, saving, investment, and entrepreneurship.

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  • In their home town of Luton, Mr Brown was a member of the "Lewsey Farm" gang sometimes known as "The Trap Gang".

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  • The cars, sometimes known as autonomous vehicles, use technologies such as radar, global positioning and computer vision to operate independently of human input.

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  • Diuretics, sometimes known as "water pills, " have been around for decades.

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  • This new data deluge, sometimes known as Big Data, promises to provide us the opportunity to turn information overload into an asset for better decision making by applying analytics.

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  • According to the Web site Ecouterre.com, the dress is made from what's sometimes known as ahimsa, or "peace silk" a material spun from cocoons without killing the worms inside.

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  • There is no cure and not a single proven treatment for SMA. Sometimes known as floppy baby syndrome, it's a leading genetic killer, hitting one in 8, 000 infants and toddlers.

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  • Speaking to the BBC, Mr Jardine explained that the zander, sometimes known as the "pike-perch" because of its similarities to the two other species of fish, was an unusual choice of target for a pike.

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  • The answer is that the lion's share of any tax saving is often taken by the agency and any company to which it subcontracts to manage its payroll - sometimes known as an "umbrella" company.

    BBC: 'Abusive tax avoidance' affects temporary workers

  • It is the only place on earth where, under the anti-ballistic missile treaty, the United States was allowed to test its strategic interceptor missiles, a key component of President Bush's missile-defence programme, sometimes known as Star Wars II.

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  • But President George W. Bush's administration has pushed nuclear power as a fuel of choice for the future through various financial incentives, including the "Nuclear Power 2010" initiative launched five years ago, which provides matching funds for the early stages of new plant development, as well as loan guarantees and tax credits offered to new nuclear developers in 2005's Energy Policy Act, sometimes known as EPACT.

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  • Named after its inventor, Emma Rylander Lane, the Lane cake (sometimes also known as prize cake) is an all-purpose event cake.

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  • Known sometimes as the "birthdate effect" or "relative age effect", this generally diminishes as children get older but does not vanish.

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  • This Sarkozy trade, as it is sometimes known in the markets, was an indirect (if inefficient) means for the ECB to support sovereigns.

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  • Team captain Fernando Maria Neves, known as Nando, sometimes has to pinch himself to realize the Sharks will be performing on Africa's biggest stage.

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  • Khoo came into the banking limelight in 1986 when he helped rescue Stanchart, as it is sometimes known, from Lloyds TSB Group by increasing his 5% share.

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  • The city's lavish spending on the expo is all the more striking given how lacklustre a brand World Expos (or World's Fairs as they are sometimes known) have become in the developed world.

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  • Khoo came into the banking limelight in 1986 when he helped rescue Stanchart, as it is sometimes known, from Lloyds TSB Group (nyse: LYG - news - people ) by increasing his 5% share.

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  • And when they are done right, read fun and captivating, they get shared and spread, sometimes quite quickly achieving that holy grail known as Viral.

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  • Yet many areologists, as students of Mars are sometimes known, could not let go of the idea that the object of their affections was once an active world like the earth.

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  • From downtown Cape Town, cable cars ascend the hulking mass of Table Mountain, which looms above the city and sometimes disappears into the cloud covering, known locally as the tablecloth.

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  • It's whale vomit - known as ambergris, which is still sometimes used to make perfume.

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  • He was known as a great wit, though sometimes at the expense of unfortunate strippers or lounge pianists.

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  • The range of electric car batteries is known to shrink sometimes in cold weather, as industry experts have discovered.

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  • Also known as service agreements, extended warranties will pay out for repairs, replacements and sometimes damage to electrical appliances such as cookers, washing machines or television sets.

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  • Sometimes bigger is not necessarily better: removing imperfections, known as inclusions, may reduce the size and caratage of a stone, but could also elevate it to a more valuable grade.

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  • She's also been known to dress up boutique and department store windows -- sometimes appearing as part of the display -- and just submitted the first draft of a book.

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  • Street art, meanwhile, has been controversial around the world, though in some cities it is cautiously permitted with some street artists rising to prominence in recent years, notably the British artist known as "Banksy, " whose stencils and drawings, sometimes considered illegal, have flourished from London to Jerusalem.

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  • Measuring just 116mm (approximately four-and-a-half inches) and weighing 390g (13.7oz), it is commonly known as a "pocket" or "waistcoat" pistol and is sometimes referred to as a "ladies'" gun because of its size.

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