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...greatest influence in Iraq will almost certainly be Iran, which has close ties with the full spectrum of the Shiite religious parties. The administration has taken important steps towards international and regional consensus over Iraq during the past week, in securing European agreement to write off a substantial portion of Iraq's debt, and in opening frank discussions on managing the situation in Iraq with all of the neighbors, including Iran, at a summit hosted by Egypt in Sharm el-Sheikh...
While these type of concerts do take up a large portion of the budget, Capp says that the termbill hike means that there is a larger pie from which the council can draw to fund everyone...
...wind farms currently provide electricity for villages in far west Xinjiang, also home to the country's largest solar-power station. When fully operational, the new wind farm will provide electricity for more than 10,000 local farmers. Although scientists say China has the potential to meet a significant portion of its electricity needs through wind power harnessed in the western deserts, making such an enterprise commercially and practically viable is a huge challenge...
...retirement and health-care dollars. They would be able to watch benefits accrue, knowing the funds could never be snatched away as the result of a policy shift. Bush's Social Security reforms would cement this ownership society, with personal savings accounts, which would allow taxpayers to invest some portion of their Social Security taxes in exchange for reduced payouts. But as a result, Americans would no longer be able to count on a promise they have grown up with--that the next generation will take care of them in their...
Another unimpressive display was just as arbitrary and unbefitting. This one involved a fragment of an old coaxial cable in a vitrine. The exhibition text argued that Evans believed the object to be a portion of the cable belonging to the phone used by Marcel Duchamp during his stay in the United States...