Toshiba and Mitusbishi Electric announced that they would pool resources from April to develop third-generation phones.

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In a banking union, eurozone states would pool their resources to act as the insurers or guarantors of last resort for the deposits in eurozone banks and for bailouts of banks that get into difficulties (this would be true, even if banks subscribe to a deposit protection fund, because there would never be enough in this fund to deal with all possible crises).

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The larger pool of resources that an AMF would provide on a permanent basis to deal with such crises is an important rationale for setting up such an institution.

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Investors under these circumstances could have joined a class action where they would band together with thousands of other investors to pool their resources to bring one big case to bring Schwab to justice.

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"If we tapped the entire pool of human resources and talent, our collective performance would improve, " she says.

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While formal authority on particular issues, such as immigration policy, would still lie with the home agency, this group could better coordinate activities and pool resources.

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Going back to the entrepreneurial concepts and existing businesses so often in need of credit, the irony of the Keynesian view that governments must spend us out of recession is that as governments have no resources, their spending naturally subtracts from the available pool of capital that would otherwise migrate toward businesses, and in reaching businesses, boost employee pay.

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