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  • Congress Should Not Approve more money for the IMF without at least attaching stringent conditions, principal among them being that troubled countries receiving monies set up Hong Kong-like currency boards or some other mechanism that can stabilize the affected currencies.

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  • "We have 40 people working here and it meant that if one set of people were receiving emails, another set couldn't, " he said.

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  • Add to it that someone receiving information in a set of ski goggles is probably seeing that information while bombing down a slope.

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  • Jurors will return to court Thursday to begin the next phase of the trial that could set the stage for Arias receiving a death sentence.

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  • He only needed the first, taking the set 7-5, despite receiving treatment for a wrist problem after going 6-5 up.

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  • Pebble's makers have paired with notification service If This Then That (IFTTT), a site which allows users to set up custom actions such as receiving a notification when weather changes, or when a news website is updated.

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  • Lucy Davis, 24, a radio soap actress, is set to make a full recovery after receiving a kidney from her mother, Hazel, at Birmingham's University Hospital.

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  • The receiving end of the demonstration, in contrast, was set in an auditorium at the University of Washington.

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  • The Frenchman criticized the chair umpire after being docked a point for receiving coaching when on the verge on clinching the second set.

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  • In recent years, two would-be U.S. attackers reported receiving bomb-making training from foreign groups but failed to set off the explosives.

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  • This is the worst possible example we can set for our students: People are so used to receiving poor service that they expect disappointment and invisibility.

    FORBES: Michelle Rhee

  • Right now only about 20% of Americans are capable of receiving a digital signal through a digital tuner built into the television set itself, according to the Consumer Electronics Association.

    FORBES: The $75 Billion TV Tab

  • After receiving his trophy and the golden jacket that goes with it he set his sights on a jacket of a different color -- the green one awarded to the winner of the Masters in Augusta.

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  • After receiving an initial offer from owners in mid-July, The NHLPA is set to provide its counteroffer today, and many NHL fans are curious about whether the proposal will help to avoid a lockout this fall.

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  • After not receiving a corporate firm job offer in the downtrodden industry, Scott Greenwood, set to graduate this spring from the University of Southern California's Gould School of Law, will instead work for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

    CNN: For jobless lawyers, plan B includes good works

  • He set fire to the vehicle with his unconscious wife inside it before later receiving an insurance payout.

    BBC: Malcolm Webster murder: Crime legislation criticised

  • The maximum cost of making a call has been set at 33 pence per minute plus VAT, while the maximum cost of receiving a call will be 16p plus VAT.

    BBC: Chatting abroad will now become much cheaper

  • There was ABSCAM in 1980, when the FBI set up a sting operation that caught on videotape a senator and five representatives receiving cash payments from a fictitious Middle Eastern businessman in return for political influence.

    NPR: Abramoff Latest in String of Congressional Scandals

  • Traditionally, service providers used devices like set-top boxes with cable cards that allowed them to ensure only paying subscribers were receiving the content and that it was protected.

    FORBES: Why Isn't TV Everywhere?

  • For example, an ACO could bundle a certain episode of care (EOC), such as the services required to manage a patient receiving a heart transplant, and then create a financial instrument based on profits associated with providing that particular set of care.

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  • And that is that in most states you now have a mechanism where you set up a public school -- so this is not private schools, these are public schools receiving public dollars -- but they have a charter that allows them to experiment and try new things.

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  • Unlike ivi, which distributed grabbed local TV signals in New York, Seattle and other markets and routed them through its servers to subscribers, Aereo at least makes the technological pretense that its subscribers are receiving the signal from a tiny individual antenna equivalent to the rabbit ears that used to sit atop every TV set.

    FORBES: Court Calls Streaming-Video Service IVI A Deadly Threat To TV

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