• Political gaffes, however, are not unique to Mr. Brown, although most are not so directly insulting to a member of the public.

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  • Not so with cars ordered directly from Avtovaz or from independent dealers, which often arrive with windshields smashed, wiring pulled out or tires slashed.

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  • Back in the 1960s and 1970s, Milton Friedman challenged the Keynesians over how monetary policy works. (John Maynard Keynes was dead, so did not directly argue the point.) Keynesians viewed stimulative monetary policy as helping the economy through lower interest rates, which increased spending by consumers and businesses.

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  • Mark Harris, chief executive of mortgage broker SPF Private Clients, explained that most mortgages track a lender's standard variable rate, or the base rate, so most are not directly affected by Libor.

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  • Most Palestinians and other Arabs maintain that the proposal made by Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah, a proposal approved at the Arab summit in 2002 (Appendix 6), is a public acknowledgment of Israel's right to exist within its legal borders and shows willingness to work out disputes that have so far not been addressed directly.

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  • So far, no such planets have been observed directly, so it has not been possible to measure their spectra.

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  • So far it has not directly supplied more sophisticated arms.

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  • As a group they had virtually no capital in the market, so stock market losses did not directly affect them.

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  • But not much of the debate so far has directly tackled why, in a society famous for its ability to integrate, some shuck off their American identity with such vigour, and to such a violent end.

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  • Inside tip: they do not take reservations, so bypass the crowds and head directly to the upstairs bar for better ambience and eat dinner there.

    BBC: H Street heats up

  • Any Russian government is going to want to influence the near abroad and will want to do so in a way that Washington does not directly control.

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  • One day in the not so distant future, GM will eventually want to sell directly to these consumers.

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  • For instance, carcinoid lung tumors that secrete chemicals into the blood do so farther upstream from the liver not directly into the liver, where the chemicals are processed and eliminated.

    CNN: Carcinoid syndrome

  • The government could also wait and let other media outlets, like Forbes, provide the names of the presumed guilty so that they can claim the information did not come directly from Wikileaks.

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  • Despite these high-profile incidents, there are reports that Afweyne has not been directly involved in piracy since 2009, and so his retirement will have little effect on the current trajectory of piracy.

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  • For starters, there is a law that says foreign retailers are not allowed to sell goods directly to the public, so Wal-Mart built a wholesale distribution center instead of their typical retail outlet.

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  • The bell had just rung for lunch, so she went directly to the cafeteria not waiting in line but into the cafeteria without a tray and still in her jacket, and, in a roaring sort of haze, she was aware of her girlfriends at a nearby table.

    NEWYORKER: I.D.

  • In extreme circumstances the verified source code can be compiled directly by the user so that downloading binaries is not necessary.

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  • They have ample freedom in choosing their lenders, and so far the alleged scandal has not shown that borrowers have been directly harmed by the conflicts of interest.

    FORBES: Loan Justice?

  • Most notably, the 3D effect only works in a limited viewing range, so if you hold the device at an angle or not directly in front of you, the image goes blurry.

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  • The black sand beach here is slim and runs directly next to the main road so it is not a great place to bring young kids - the beach can disappear entirely at certain points during high tide.

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  • "It's a tragedy when you see a natural disaster like that take place, so many innocent people that are certainly affected, if not directly by injury or possibly loss of life, " Boston manager John Farrell said.

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  • But if that account is owned by both spouses jointly with right of survivorship, then at the husband's death his half goes directly to his wife, not to his estate, and so isn't available to fund the trust.

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  • "Yet it's the fact it is not directly associated with any one religion or belief system that makes it so universal, " he says.

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  • First, high-skilled immigrants do not compete directly with low-skilled Americans, they complement each other, so that an increase in the former group is likely to raise the productivity and wages of the latter.

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  • When we are working with the Syrians themselves, so that this is not externally imposed, but rather something that is linked directly with the aspirations and hopes of the people inside of Syria, it will work better.

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  • Many companies do not have this kind of information about their customers so RNKD could provide a way to directly connect with them, he says.

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  • There is little value in asking directly because people tend not to tell the truth, he said, so tracking sharing shows what people are actually reading, not what they want you to think they are reading.

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  • His experience as a junior officer thirty-five years ago would be more of a credential for the role of Commander-in-Chief had he not spent virtually every moment subsequently disqualifying himself - and doing so in ways that are directly relevant to today's struggle.

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  • "On the diplomatic and political fronts, in the time I have been prime minister, I cannot recall a situation that has commanded so quickly such a powerful coalition of support -- not just from those countries directly involved in military action but from many others in all parts of the world, " he said.

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