Peter, I believe we share a pretty big page since I do in fact believe the middle class will survive only if greed is tempered with accountability and only if we fund the programs necessary to build men and women who have a strong sense of their value because their education, training and experience has made them valuable.

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The company this morning said that the Public Prosecutor of Brindisi, Italy has brought charges against certain officers of Global Solar Fund subsidiaries alleging that they have failed to comply with the necessary permitting process and building regulations for 12.7MW of PV plants in Italy.

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On this plan, the EFSF could then be a proper European Monetary Fund, with one side managing adjustment programmes and (where necessary) orderly debt restructuring, and the other side using ECB liquidity to support confidence in solvent but troubled governments, by buying their bonds on the secondary market.

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He demonstrated his willingness to accept spending cuts that were not ideal from his perspective, but were necessary in order to achieve the agreement that he reached with Republicans to fully fund fiscal year 2011.

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So far, more than 16, 000 people have registered with the fund, but a much smaller fraction of those have actually completed the necessary paperwork, officials said.

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