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And we also might see the scaling-back or elimination of controversial major developments planned in west Beverly Hills.
John Mirisch: Fault-y Towers: Don't Mention the Core! John Mirisch 2011
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And we also might see the scaling-back or elimination of controversial major developments planned in west Beverly Hills.
John Mirisch: Fault-y Towers: Don't Mention the Core! John Mirisch 2011
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The protests look like the prelude to a season of strikes in Europe, from Spain to the Czech Republic, as heavily indebted governments cut costs and chip away at some cherished but costly benefits that underpin the European good life – a scaling-back process that has gained urgency with Greece's euro110 billion ($140 billion) bailout.
Tourists And Commuters Bear The Brunt Of Strikes In France, London 2010
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That radical proposal, outlined in a paper published online Tuesday evening in the journal PLoS Biology, represents a scaling-back of ambition and what one of the paper's authors calls "ruthless priority setting."
Experts call for protecting sites in Asia to ensure the survival of the tiger 2010
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The protests look like the prelude to a season of strikes in Europe, from Spain to the Czech Republic, as heavily indebted governments cut costs and chip away at some cherished but costly benefits that underpin the European good life – a scaling-back process that has gained urgency with Greece's euro110 billion ($140 billion) bailout.
Tourists And Commuters Bear The Brunt Of Strikes In France, London 2010
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The protests look like the prelude to a season of strikes in Europe, from Spain to the Czech Republic, as heavily indebted governments cut costs and chip away at some cherished but costly benefits that underpin the European good life – a scaling-back process that has gained urgency with Greece's euro110 billion ($140 billion) bailout.
Tourists And Commuters Bear The Brunt Of Strikes In France, London 2010
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That radical proposal, outlined in a paper published online Tuesday evening in the journal PLoS Biology, represents a scaling-back of ambition and what one of the paper's authors calls "ruthless priority setting."
Experts call for protecting sites in Asia to ensure the survival of the tiger 2010
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That radical proposal, outlined in a paper published online Tuesday evening in the journal PLoS Biology, represents a scaling-back of ambition and what one of the paper's authors calls "ruthless priority setting."
Experts call for protecting sites in Asia to ensure the survival of the tiger 2010
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How is it that a financial crisis that failed to become a full-scale depression only because governments and therefore the taxpayers bailed out the failed financial institutions has become the launching-pad for savage cuts in public spending and a punitive scaling-back in the role of government?
The coalition is lacking a Lib Dem voice Bryan Gould 2010
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The protests look like the prelude to a season of strikes in Europe, from Spain to the Czech Republic, as heavily indebted governments cut costs and chip away at some cherished but costly benefits that underpin the European good life -- a scaling-back process that has gained urgency with Greece's euro110 billion ($140 billion) bailout.
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