The American Senate passed legislation, in a 95-5 vote, that promises to reform the credit-card industry by, among other things, banning practices such as sharp rises in interest rates.
Against that, Unionist politicians pose two arguments: that oil revenues are volatile and that the broader tax base of the UK permits greater resilience against short-term shocks such as sharp increases in unemployment and, therefore, benefits.
Mr Sharif's own reforms, such as sharp cuts in tax rates, although generally welcomed, still fail to address bigger problems: not least increasing tax revenue in a country where less than 1% of the population pays any income tax at all.
The nano does not yet support Bluetooth 4.0 (or any version of the specification), but the standard has been seen as a key component in helping reduce power consumption for such a product, There are also lower power display technologies -- such as Sharp's Memory in Pixel LCD on the forthcoming Meta Watch -- from which Apple has abstained.
Four decades after its establishment, SERVOL continues to implement a number of community-based development and educational projects primarily because the socio-economic problems that led to its formation, such as poverty, sharp socio-economic inequalities, youth criminality or gang violence and drug abuse as well as the disintegration of family structures, high illiteracy rates among and lack of livelihood and educational opportunities for the poor majority, remain prevalent in the country today.
Still, there are a few companies Jehangir likes, such as NTTDoCoMo, Sharp, Fanuc, and Matsushita Communication Industrial, which makes mobile phones.
It has been quite successful in diversifying, attracting well-known names such as Kelloggs and Sharp, and new industrial estates have sprung up.
As he was also careful about detail, this makes some of his crowded Indian paintings doubly remarkable, and some of his family portraits, such as "The Sharp Family" (1779-81), astounding.
First, it has widened an important split between makers of many final consumer products (such as Sony, Sharp and Matsushita's Panasonic brand) and the scores of focused Japanese firms that feed materials, components and equipment into the process.
The company - like other major Japanese manufacturers such as Panasonic and Sharp - has not been helped by the yen, which continued to strengthen before, during and after the 2008 financial crisis, and has only recently begun to lose some of its value.
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Even newer entrants such as Tumblr have offered sharp new competition, in particular for handling personal observations and quick exchanges.
While many outsiders may view the Amish as monolithic, the study found sharp differences in such matters as civic engagement, farming practices and the use of modern technology.
The forms of self harm recorded by hospitals included drugs overdoses, attempted hanging and deliberate injury with a sharp object such as a knife.
The camera records what happens inside and outside the vehicle but saves the recording only when it senses a sudden movement such as hard braking or a sharp turn, Muth said.
Huge amounts of energy surge through the aircraft before exiting out of another sharp point, such as the tail.
It is most useful for seeing sharp contrasts, such as the painted white line of a crosswalk on a dark road.
" Mr. Curcio's prose is more dense, but his book is studded with sharp descriptions, such as when he notes that Ford's thought processes "jumped from one subject to another without prelude, " making his utterances "cryptic to the point of incoherence.
Other companies, such as Advanced Micro Devices, Fujitsu, Sharp and Mitsubishi, piled into the market.
Zega and Dams' watercolors are composed of hundreds of such discoveries, alive with exacting details as sharp as the facets of a gemstone.
Governments cannot use the exchange rate to help the economy adjust to outside shocks, such as a fall in export prices or sharp shifts in capital flows.
And, for all the charm and emollience, he could produce sharp shards himself, such as the remark that listening to Margaret Atwood was like being driven back and forth through Winnipeg on a Sunday.
Heavyweight Republican senators such as John McCain and Arlen Specter have raised sharp questions.
When lightning strikes a plane, the bolt typically hits a sharp part of it, such as a wing tip.
No one knows how many ethnic Chinese have left Indonesia, but the embassies of likely destinations, such as Australia and Canada, have reported a sharp increase in visa applications.
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As such, we were surprised to see the sharp sell-off in equities on Wednesday.
Other carmakers such as Mitsubishi Motors and Mazda have also reported a sharp drop in Chinese sales.
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Membership of parent-teacher associations, sports groups, political parties and organisations such as the Boy Scouts or Rotary are all in sharp decline.
In my career as a retailer, or as an analyst, I have never seen such a sharp drop in sales in just one year.
The key to making a quiet trust work, he says, is to see from the start that the trustee reports regularly to someone, such as a relative or close family friend, who is sharp, will ask questions and is aware of the beneficiary's situation.
The issue of the use of long-handled belly putters was drawn into sharp focus by the success of golfers such as American Keegan Bradley, the first to win a major using the technique, and veteran South African Ernie Els, who claimed the British Open last year after switching to the method.
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