The first would be to inject capital into Spanish banks at risk -- directly from the European Stability Mechanism, which comes into operation in July.

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The House has introduced legislation and held a hearing in the new congressional session to find a solution that would continue the federal operation of the reserve beyond this point, ensuring stability and predictability in the helium market for a short, finite time until known plants in development start operation.

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"No one wants to do a 10-year stability and reconstruction operation again, " he said in an interview.

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Finally, the notion of deliberately sequenced conflicts was entirely eliminated in favor of the requirement that U.S. forces be capable of responding to a second regional aggression while already engaged in a major theater conflict or substantial stability operation.

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The Israeli experience in 2006 was due primarily to a loss of traditional war-waging skills as a consequence of the protracted stability operation that the Israeli military had conducted in the Palestinian territory and the failure to recognize the need for a more traditional joint combined arms fire and maneuver approach.

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Increased trade and political co-operation between Mercosur's members have bolstered stability, democracy and economic reform in the region over the past ten years.

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