He urged them to have faith. "Yes,we are passing through a harsh winter.

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puts a harsh spotlight on the financial industry. "The civil suit raises the level of awareness of deceit on Wall Street, the selfishness and self-serving behavior that needs to be regulated."

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Dalil says this contributes to a harsh statistic.

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It is a strong feeling, but the harsh realities of costs and benefits are likely to be around for future generations.

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He said the harsh interrogation techniques used on a few detainees were legal, essential and justified.

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Kohona told the Bangkok press club that despite harsh criticism of the sentencing from rights groups and the United States, the proceedings were not a sham.

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Donohue was particularly harsh over a proposal by the White House to tax bank transactions in order to recoup some of the money used to bail out troubled banks.

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A recent undercover investigation conducted by the Humane Society of the United States found chimpanzees in a Louisiana research center being subjected to harsh treatment and painful medical experiments.

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But Ritz, who has both undergone and conducted SERE training, says there is a great degree of difference between training and actual interrogations, where harsh techniques may be combined and carried out for longer periods.

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The runoff election between incumbent President Hamid Karzai and his main challenger, former foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah faces multiple challenges: Taliban intimidation, voter apathy and cynicism, increasingly harsh winter weather, and,most of all,a turnaround time of only two weeks.

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