This idea is elegant as well as frugal: by reconfiguring existing technology it can potentially connect millions of people to the internet.

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This applies to my very favorite idea as well: equitable school financing.

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However, CBI director general John Cridland is frustrated by the lack of action on initiatives such has this, as well as the idea of getting pension funds to invest in infrastructure, and wants to see more progress.

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There is a spiritual as well as practical dimension to this - with ubuntu reflecting the idea that we're part of a long chain of human experience, connecting us to previous and future generations.

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Colbert, as well as much of the tech blogosphere, had previously mocked Schmidt for this idea of teenagers changing their names and scrubbing their e-history clean at turning 18.

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Keeping an eye on both the economic conditions as well as consumer conditions should help give investors and potential investors in this sector an idea of what to expect from credit card companies.

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This is the idea that lies behind most post-war demand management as well as today's fiscal stimulus packages.

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And we're meeting this week to discuss Yemen and Somalia as well as other things, so the idea that there is no effective war cabinet - it meets about every week.

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But you wouldn't want to make this story up if it weren't rooted in reality, because Tony's plan is, before anything else, utterly preposterous as well as inventive and wildly daring: "This is the best bad idea we have, sir, " his superior, Jack O'Donnell (Bryan Cranston), tells the CIA's director in a meeting at Langley headquarters.

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And this concept was raised in a number of the other sessions as well, so it's an idea that we think is worthy of further consideration.

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So this would support the idea that Baghdad, and by extension the rest of the Mesopotamian region, experienced the MWP as well.

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