Conservatives usually argue two main types of imperfections in the system.

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Today the railway system has shrunk, the two main airlines have merged and a series of trade deals, culminating in the North American Free-Trade Agreement, have, since 1988, increased trade with the United States to some 87% of Canada's exports.

ECONOMIST: Canada

Two main initiatives are National Academic Research and Collaborations Information System ( NARCIS): the national portal for those who are in search of information about researchers and their work and Data Archiving and Networked Services ( DANS) to provide access to datasets by developing data infrastructures in organisations.

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The more respectable reasons include his party's opposition to the time-dishonoured system of Proporz, whereby the two hitherto main parties carved up just about all public-sector jobs, from ambassadors to health inspectors, between them.

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After months of haggling and protest, two of the four main doctors' unions agreed last week to accept the new system.

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Although German industrialists and economists now fret that too much harmony boosts wages and blunts competitiveness, the two main parties seem convinced that their electoral fortunes depend on staying with the familiar system.

ECONOMIST: Germany

He changed his mind two years ago when he saw a working system devised by a fledgling Israeli firm called Main.net Communications.

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