In some ways, the times cry out for more active government: for stronger regulation of banks and near-banks, for much more short-term government spending to counteract the contraction elsewhere in the economy, and for the establishment of a basic health-care system for everyone.

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His aides are in the community at the grass roots level providing basic social services, in a way that the mainstream Shiite establishment is not.

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Risk analysis is a basic requirement of the standard, as is the establishment of a security policy.

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He widely explained basic set of principles and recommendations for the establishment of policies and procedures of library and archive collections with the master plan that every document must be protected at all times from all sort of damage and with the recognition that these collections, as documentary heritage, must be transmitted to future generations.

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The next Archbishop of Canterbury will also have to answer a more basic question: is the institution he heads part of the establishment, with an accepted role as its moral guide, or is it called on to be a provocateur, speaking its own version of truth to power?

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