Many such enterprises are kept on life-support as long as government staves off deflation.

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Yet the odds of life-long disability such as cerebral palsy, blindness or being unable to walk, has not changed, at about one in five.

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Although touch-screen has long permeated the more mundane aspects of modern life such as ticket machines and tills, and provided interactive novelties in the guise of museum guides and quiz machines, applying this technology to the PC is a far more complex task.

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He barely mentions a New Yorker series written towards the end of his life: long profiles of vivid characters he admired, such as Mel Brooks, Johnny Carson, Ralph Richardson and Tom Stoppard.

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Wisconsin Right to Life, the justices said such a restriction was tantamount to censorship--as long as an ad isn't for or against a particular candidate, it shouldn't be subject to a pre-election blackout.

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Addressing the intersection of such disciplines will be the special focus of the Casey Institute, just as it was the life-long preoccupation of the distinguished Wall Street financier, lawyer and public servant for whom the Institute is named.

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That's because a lot of core functionality is still missing from the OS, such as the ability to play music files or import real-life contacts, and there's a long way to go if it's to be signed off as "code complete" in October.

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Democracy as such can take its time to materialise, in the view of many Iraqis, so long as the foundations of a normal life begin to reappear.

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