The poor and working class in America may indeed have hunger issues, but they are not starving the way that the poor of famine-swept Somalia are starving.
But he also points to cultural differences that might impede Europe's growth even if those regulatory barriers are swept away: workers in Europe's big economies are less likely to regard the opportunity for innovation, autonomy and interesting work as vital components of a job.
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But whatever they are called, the figures have become a rug under which all manner of corporate mistakes are swept.
Often, women are swept away romantically and fail to take a hard look at financial compatibility before marrying or moving in together.
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The B-1B has a "variable-geometry" or swing-wing design: The wings are swept forwards, almost at right angles to the body, for take-off and landing and cruising.
At the very least, even if the Devils are swept by the Kings (Game 2 is Saturday) and Brodeur retires, the collection is sure to grow by three more sticks.
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While the wood in the study was placed there by scientists, wood naturally finds its way into the ocean as dead trees fall into rivers and are swept out to sea, when storm debris is taken by surging waters and even from shipwrecks.
There are tiny increases in Cardiff and Monmouthshire - the sort that just about register a 0.1% uplift in percentage points - but those are swept aside by the losses in those areas where when you start speaking Welsh, you know that most people around you probably do too.
Between midnight and 06:00, the roads are first swept and jetwashed by a machine similar to a road dust sweeper.
But the spending cuts are never fully adopted, or if they are they are soon swept away in the next liberal budget.
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On the northeast coast, where whole towns were swept away, communities are struggling not just to rebuild but also to draw new businesses.
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"As foreign exposure to the Japanese market broadens, small-cap and less-liquid names are getting swept up, " says Lorne Steinberg, chief executive of Montreal-based Lorne Steinberg Wealth Management, a deep-value investor.
Viewers can recline inside a re-creation to watch a hypnotic collage of overlapping films and slide projections play on the dome's interior, as though their bodies are being swept away on a sea of images.
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While the Senate is selling this as a win-win for the American consumer, the unintended consequences for consumers are being swept under the rug, including a likely reduction in available credit cards at a time when many need credit to pay their bills.
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Many Philadelphia parishioners think the administrators who swept everything under the rug are just as guilty as the abusers.
The European portion is particularly interesting, given that many solid businesses in the region are probably getting swept up in the sovereign debt crisis.
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Young men swept up in the raid are sprung from jail by a councilman seeking their votes, crowds form in the street to pocket cash payments from competing candidates, and campaign rallies, which are joined with religious celebrations, are hardly more than stomping grounds for pickpockets.
Flyovers are congested with cars parked two or three abreast as residents try to ensure their precious vehicles are not damaged or swept away by the flooding that threatens central Bangkok.
Photographer Marc Wilson has been busily recording these structures before many of them are reduced to rubble or swept under the waves.
As rivers burst their banks, many were trapped in their homes while in other areas entire villages are reported to have been swept away.
When asked if his family back in Sri Lanka were OK, holding back his tears, he answered that two members of his family, including a nine-year-old boy, are missing, their home swept away.
Though I was not a sports fan when I got to Duke, I was swept up in the Cameron Craziness, as are the majority of Duke students.
Too often executives are blindsided by problems that were swept under the rug so much so that the rug begins to have topography full of bigger problems that need urgent attention.
While not a hard-and-fast rule, she says, women are more likely than men to get swept into a partnership by personal affinity for someone without looking at the business reasons for partnership.
His words are uncomfortably reminiscent of the paranoia that swept through Number 10 in the mid-1970s when Harold Wilson became convinced that MI5 was conspiring against him, after a series of burglaries and press leaks.
Health authorities are probably mindful of a cholera epidemic that swept through Penang in May last year.
Issues that last year were treated as trouble spots are, say diplomats, this year being swept aside.
Those who freeze, terrified by the rolling disasters, are the very people most likely to be swept away.
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