A major point of difference between the two main parties is whether the government should offer a health insurance program to compete with private insurance companies in an effort to drive down health care costs.

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What we don't get here is a sense of whether there really is an alternate secret postal system that serves a sort of underground of private networks.

在这里我们所不明白的是，是否真的存在一个,提供地下的,私密的通信服务的，秘密邮政系统。

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But climate change skeptics have seized on the recent theft of thousands of private e-mail messages from computer servers at a British climate research center to cast doubt on whether global warming is as serious as it has been made out to be.

VOA: standard.2009.12.09

But war is bigger than any one man or woman, whether a private, a general, or a president.

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Effectively, the plan sponsor (whether a private company or a government) provides insurance against underperformance of plan assets.

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But Ford has acknowledged an "active" strategic review process during the company's quarterly earnings conference calls, and Wall Street analysts say some sort of deal--whether a private buyout or an acquisition by a rival like Verizon (nyse: VZ - news - people )--is very likely.

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