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"I don't think we have the answers yet, but we certainly encourage work to continue on this issue," said Charles Collyns , U.S. Treasury's assistant secretary of international finance.
IMF Plan Sees Role for Fund in Crises Ian Talley 2011
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Healthy & Organic Living magazine's editor Kate Collyns has written to subscribers to apologise.
Media Maxine 2009
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Healthy & Organic Living magazine's editor Kate Collyns has written to subscribers to apologise.
Waiter, there's poison in my soup Maxine 2008
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Healthy & Organic Living magazine's editor Kate Collyns has written to subscribers to apologise.
August 2008 Maxine 2008
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Healthy & Organic Living magazine's editor Kate Collyns has written to subscribers to apologise.
Waiter, there's poison in my soup Maxine 2008
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Napier Collyns, who insisted that this subject would properly bring together international affairs, oil and energy, and narrative history; and to James Schlesinger, who was extremely gracious with his insights, experience, and time.
The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008
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Napier Collyns, who insisted that this subject would properly bring together international affairs, oil and energy, and narrative history; and to James Schlesinger, who was extremely gracious with his insights, experience, and time.
The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008
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Collyns, the Warwick solicitor, who added the attestation clause.
Bacon is Shake-Speare Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence 1875
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Collyns to show you the way, and mend your bones as fast as you smash them.
The Water-Babies Charles Kingsley 1847
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China has allowed the yuan to appreciate about 3.8 percent against the U.S. dollar since June, or at a 10 percent annual rate in real terms, Treasury Assistant Secretary Charles Collyns said in a speech last night in San Francisco.
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