He said it will not be possible to protect the Afghan population -- the key to any counterinsurgency strategy -- without a substantial input of additional resources.

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Without reeling off any more facts and acquisition figures, the key point to register is that wherever you look, China is linking physical assets to virtual trades, not just to feed gas market liquidity, but to rebalance WTI and Brent for oil.

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Education and training are the key to any country's future, and without them free trade may prove more of a threat to Latin America than an opportunity.

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By these numbers, any company without at least one woman on their board is missing a key strategic advantage.

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After intercepting the key, she can make it record just the right pattern of bits without any of the telltale errors her eavesdropping was supposed to introduce.

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If he does so, without any compensating benefits for the victims (who, in the end, are pensioners, normally a key Labour constituency), it will be seen as an opportunistic, short-termist raid that undermines Labour's claims to want more investment and saving.

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