• But that is not what is on offer, chiefly thanks to differences in the legal systems on the two sides of the Atlantic.

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  • Successful economic development depends chiefly on striking the right balance between government support and private sector investment.

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  • Most dollars going to Central America are spent on consumer goods chiefly made in Japan, Korea and China.

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  • Some analysts mutter that Phelps Dodge embarked on the merger chiefly to save itself from being taken over.

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  • Virtually everything needed to help countries grow and reduce poverty depends chiefly on domestic policies ask South Korea, China and even India.

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  • Communities that depend chiefly on open water sources like ponds in rural and isolated areas are especially affected, according to the World Health Organization.

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  • Furthermore, despite having sidelines in cobalt and molybdenum, the new firm's fortunes will depend chiefly on the price of copper and nickel two of most volatile metals of late.

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  • In San Francisco, TalentBin has been focusing chiefly on software coders, pulling user data both from heavily trafficked sites and also from niche sources such as BitBucket and RubyGems.

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  • Yet the Socialist electoral campaign has been pretty tepid, harping chiefly on the inequalities of wealth resulting from the boom and on the windfalls accruing to fatcats like Mr Villalonga.

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  • Testifying to Congress recently, Tara O'Toole of the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health said that anti-terrorism programmes have concentrated chiefly on the threat posed by conventional explosives or chemical weapons.

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  • Technological progress, and (it should follow) increasing global integration, are in some ways natural and self-fuelling processes, depending chiefly on human ingenuity and ambition: it would be hard (though, as history shows, not impossible) to call a halt to innovation.

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  • North Korean state TV broadcast a two-hour tribute to Kim Jong Il on Wednesday morning, chiefly showing images of him as a young man.

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  • Along with the fiction and the biographies on which his reputation chiefly rests, he produced a seemingly effortless stream of plays, translations, poems, travelogues, and essays.

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  • Because Mr Harper runs a minority government that could fall at any time, he has chiefly focused on short-term, voter-pleasing issues like cracking down on illegal immigration.

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  • Mindful of the House GOP undercurrent that Obama is chiefly focused on scoring political points, one source inside the meeting said the president addressed those concerns directly at the end of the meeting.

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  • Imagined futures that are really thinly disguised commentaries on current affairs are not chiefly concerned with reliable prediction.

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  • The October sales figures show that consumers remain focused on "need" due chiefly to lingering concerns over the U.S. economy.

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  • Those on the market now are chiefly for comfort and stimulation: for instance, the Snuggling Ifbot, which lives in an astronaut suit, chats about the weather, sings and plays quiz games.

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  • That, by all reckonings but Mr Cain's, would provide the rich with a whopping tax break (chiefly because tax on capital gains and dividends would be eliminated), paid for by higher taxes on everyone else.

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  • The legislature is sitting on nearly 300 bills, all chiefly designed to push through reforms.

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  • Whereas workers' pay depends on the labour market (and has been kept down by the huge numbers of people joining the global economy), managers' bonuses are chiefly tied to returns on capital.

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  • Before that, the colonising of America and the gradual takeover of India by the East India Company were chiefly commercial projects that were dependent on private capital and private risk.

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  • Thirty years on, this remains an elusive goal, chiefly because of the most crucial ingredient in the success of the new standards: an understanding of whom the truth is supposed to benefit.

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  • Certainly, such progress as has been made on the all-important structural issues chiefly the reorganisation of the corrupt and incompetent commercial banking system gives little reason for confidence.

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  • Western Australia earlier declared on 404-9, with Hussey receiving solid support chiefly from Marcus North (79).

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  • He goes on to mark the 250, 000-odd Soviet citizens, chiefly Poles, shot because of their ethnicity in the purges of 1937-38.

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  • This is chiefly linked to rigid labour-market rules and payroll charges on employers, which between them keep labour costs high and deter job creation.

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  • That still chiefly means television, but more and more people also follow sport on computers, BlackBerrys and mobile phones.

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  • Foreigners are attracted chiefly by Malta's tax system, which allows income tax on dividends to be offset against corporate tax, reducing the effective tax rate on dividends from 35% to 5%.

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  • But, chiefly, the Admiral extolled the might of naval gunfire, whose concentration on the landing area, he said, gesturing heavenward with his meerschaum, would be the heaviest ever to support American troops.

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