Assuming that is right, expect to see a big increase in appeals to the one bit of the European machine where unanimity will remain the rule: the European Council, which gathers together the 27 national leaders of the EU. Under Lisbon the European Council is to gain a semi-permanent president, to replace the system of rotating presidencies.

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Most of these Android backdoors contain exploits designed to gain super-user privileges or obtain maximum privileges on the system.

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David Bernd, chief executive of Sentara Health System in Virginia, believes the health law will offer a long-term financial gain by vastly expanding health coverage.

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The blue-chip Dow is building on a 788-point surge last week, its biggest weekly percentage gain since mid-July 2009, after central banks infused the global financial system with cheap dollar loans.

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He also goes into how the have-nots could gain superior voting power in he BCS under a return to this system, but that includes a lot of what-ifs and is beyond the scope of what I want to cover here.

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For the year, that marked a gain in share for Google's operating system, but a decline for Apple's - although in terms of units sold, both firms made gains.

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Schools gain and maintain accreditation via a peer review system, and though some deans find the required self-reflection to be useful, others say the time and resources spent on paperwork and preparing for campus visits aren't worth it.

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As Nassim Nicholas Taleb describes it in his new book Anti-Fragile: Things that Gain from Disorder (Random House, 2012), it creates a fragile system that does not scale, and suffers from adverse market changes.

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