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  • Mr. Shirakawa has recently stressed the need to raise Japan's growth potential—which he calls the nation's "longstanding challenge."

    BOJ Open to Further Stimulus Measures Megumi Fujikawa 2011

  • He said he made the comment in relation to what he described as the nation's poor treatment of animals. and in 2006 he refused to tour Canada in protest at seal hunting.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

  • Carl Siciliano is the founder and executive director of the Ali Forney Center, which he describes as the nation's largest organization dedicated to homeless LGBT youth.

    News 2011

  • He said he made the comment in relation to what he described as the nation's poor treatment of animals.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

  • MIAMI Reuters - State and federal agents cracked down on Tuesday on South Florida pill mills, dismantling what was described as the nation's largest criminal organization involved in illegally distributing painkillers.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • As the Archdiocese of New York embarks on a five-year, $175 million renovation of what has been described as the nation's largest Roman Catholic Gothic sanctuary, architects and historians have meticulously reviewed every detail of James Renwick Jr.'s original blueprints.

    NYT > Home Page By SAM ROBERTS 2011

  • Wales-born Gillard, who with her family migrated to the city of Adelaide after contracting bronchial pneumonia when she was four, faces what she herself calls the nation's "blokey" culture.

    BusinessWeek.com -- Top News 2011

  • Rick Perry is calling the nation's economic turmoil a national nightmare.

    StarTribune.com rss feed 2011

  • Wales-born Gillard, who with her family migrated to the city of Adelaide after contracting bronchial pneumonia when she was four, faces what she herself calls the nation's "blokey" culture.

    BusinessWeek.com -- Top News 2011

  • For example, in Los Angeles—a place some call the nation's "capital of veteran homelessness"—there is a 387-acre parcel of land, the West Los Angeles VA Campus.

    Why Wounded Warriors Sleep in Dumpsters Laurence Tribe 2011

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