In the case of the current mid-latitude chill, it is the high latitudes that are seeing the warming.

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To its credit, Japan has committed to the purchase of two more Aegis destroyers in the current Mid-Term Defense Plan with one each to be procured in 2002 and 2003.

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This is the Section 7520 rate (named after the section of the Internal Revenue Code that applies), which is 120% of the current mid-term AFR compounded annually, rounded to the nearest 0.2%.

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