The convergence in yields reflects mainly the removal of exchange-rate risk since the creation of the single currency, but that still leaves default risk.

ECONOMIST: World economy

And for women who were driving or sitting for more than 60 hours, the rate of gallbladder removal was 132% higher than for active women.

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Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg had earlier told the BBC that the government would "look at how you administer the removal of child benefit from upper-rate earners".

BBC: UK Politics

But Conservative Party chairman Grant Shapps told the same programme the top rate tax cut was a "red herring" and pointed to the removal of millions of people on lower pay from income tax.

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In January, Mr Cameron gave the first hint of a government rethink when he warned of the "cliff edge" some families might face with the removal of child benefit for all top-rate taxpayers.

BBC: UK Politics

Section 604 of the 1974 Act authorizes the President to embody in the HTS the substance of relevant provisions of chapter V of that Act, and of other Acts affecting import treatment, and of actions taken thereunder, including the removal, modification, continuance, or imposition of any rate of duty or other import restriction.

WHITEHOUSE: The White House

Section 604 of the 1974 Act (19 U.S.C. 2483) authorizes the President to embody in the HTS the substance of the relevant provisions of that Act, and of other acts affecting import treatment, and actions taken thereunder, including the removal, modification, continuance, or imposition of any rate of duty or other import restriction.

WHITEHOUSE: The White House

But the single biggest cut will come from the controversial removal of child benefit from families with a higher-rate taxpayer from 2013.

ECONOMIST: Cutting back the state

Many protesters are calling for the removal of the royal family, whom they blame for the country's high unemployment rate and for running a corrupt government that relies on torture and other harsh measures to clamp down on dissent.

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