The expanded coverage of commission-free ETFs gives self-directed investors a much wider range of choices that covers the bulk of what most individual investors would consider buying anyway.

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Meanwhile, some excessively self-absorbed copyright holders have been lobbying on multiple fronts for expanded power to control everything from the Internet to the electronic devices people use to access music or movies.

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The results have been terrific: a world-class integrated data platform, expanded consumer and customer databases, online, self-service systems, strengthened product fulfillment, new ways of onboarding customers more quickly, and cultural acceptance of a shared services model leading to 13 consecutive quarters of double-digit million dollar annual operating margins.

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In this context, she recalled that Iraq made voluntary contributions to UNESCO amounting to over USD 4 million in the first six months of 2012 alone, notably through self-benefiting projects in the field of cultural heritage preservation, and emphasized that such cooperation would be expanded to the fields of education and sciences.

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