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  • The dangers in the FBI proposal are thus three-fold: higher costs for communications, a decrease in US innovation (and loss of innovation to overseas), and a likely massive increase in wiretapping -- because cost would no longer be an issue for law enforcement.

    Susan Landau: The FBI Wiretap Plan: Upsetting the Security Equation Susan Landau 2010

  • Nearly four years ago, the Center for Hispanic Leadership began its journey to research and to help solve this problem, and our conclusions were three-fold:

    Glenn Llopis: Time Is Running Out -- Why Hispanic Leaders Must Step Up! Glenn Llopis 2011

  • The offer attracted a hefty total €17 billion in bids, implying a more than three-fold coverage ration, implying strong investor demand.

    Spanish Funding Costs Rise on Greek Woes Emese Bartha 2011

  • The dangers in the FBI proposal are thus three-fold: higher costs for communications, a decrease in US innovation (and loss of innovation to overseas), and a likely massive increase in wiretapping -- because cost would no longer be an issue for law enforcement.

    Susan Landau: The FBI Wiretap Plan: Upsetting the Security Equation Susan Landau 2010

  • The offer attracted a hefty total €17 billion in bids, implying a more than three-fold coverage ration, implying strong investor demand.

    Spanish Funding Costs Rise on Greek Woes Emese Bartha 2011

  • Thanks to the activity of the monastery, articulated in the three-fold daily commitments of prayer, study and work, entire populations of Europe have experienced a genuine redemption and a beneficial moral, spiritual and cultural development, learning in the spirit of continuity with the past, of concrete action for the common good, and of openness to God and the transcendent aspect of the world.

    More from Montecassino 2009

  • May your generosity of spirit and intellectual insight be returned to your three-fold.

    Inspirational Female Authors « Write Anything 2010

  • The stock has taken off this year, moving from its long-term trading range in the $50s and has gone up three-fold since then.

    Six Technology Best Buys Darcy Travlos 2010

  • Whatever one's personal stylistic preference (and one is certainly free to hold another preference), each of these examples strikes me as having fulfilled that three-fold principle of development that is marked by continuity, beauty and dignity.

    Continuity, Beauty and Dignity within the Liturgical Arts and their Development 2009

  • The dangers in the FBI proposal are thus three-fold: higher costs for communications, a decrease in US innovation (and loss of innovation to overseas), and a likely massive increase in wiretapping -- because cost would no longer be an issue for law enforcement.

    Susan Landau: The FBI Wiretap Plan: Upsetting the Security Equation Susan Landau 2010

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