As if to confirm this, few of this week's mergers envisage big cost-savings as their main objective (the link-up of two American insurers, Unum and Provident, may be an exception).

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Indeed, Khor's two-pronged approach is simply a means to one objective: the advancement of Third World interests.

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The air lock installation is the primary objective of the Atlantis mission, with the two-room chamber allowing space station crews to venture from the station in NASA spacesuits without the assistance of visiting shuttles.

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Now, that is a fair and objective critique of a rigorous study that was peer-reviewed and approved for publication by two respected journals: Middle East Quarterly (already published) and Perspectives on Terrorism (soon to be published).

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Objective Analysis has been forecasting for the past two years that a DRAM shortage would commence in mid-2013 causing prices to remain stable through the middle of 2015.

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