Given this record, it is hardly surprising that other emerging economies are keen on similar arrangements.

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Given this record the home secretary, Jack Straw, might have been expected to press ahead with privatisation.

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Given this record, it is stupefying that the United States Senate is expected this week to consider legislation that would greatly compound the problem of performing national security-minded due diligence with respect to export controls.

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