Word: similares
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Suppose you won the lottery. What would you do with the money? Countries have faced similar questions. The most common example is a price commodity boom. A country exports a great deal of petroleum or copper or similar commodities. The price of this commodity zooms; the country’s revenues do as well. From Caracas to Lagos to Moscow and Tehran, governments whose countries have benefited from commodity price booms have rarely spent such a bonanza well. Chile witnessed a commodity price boom during this past decade, and it has set an admirable example for others...
...meeting, English Professor Elaine Scarry voiced concerns that the degree titles might be too similar to degrees offered by the College and Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Science...
...Obama will meet behind closed doors for three hours with his Afghan-war advisers on Wednesday. They held a similar session last Friday, and have scheduled a third one for Friday. "My assessment, having been a participant in this, has been that we've had ample opportunity to provide our best professional military advice," Army general David Petraeus, chief of the U.S. Central Command overseeing the Afghan war, told an Army audience Tuesday. "General McChrystal has been participating in these by video teleconference." Afghanistan, he added, "requires a sustained substantial commitment." But, perhaps more politically astute than McChrystal - who called...
...President Bush faced a similar conundrum in Iraq two years ago. In the face of strong doubts from Congress and the U.S. military, he ordered a "surge" of nearly 30,000 more troops in and around Baghdad, and their deployment helped calm the country. But there were a couple of differences: first of all, Iraq was Bush's war and he was in danger of losing it. Perhaps more importantly, Bush was nearing the end of his second term, meaning - electorally, at least - he had nothing to lose by upping the ante...
...would not have exchanges negotiate with insurers, but an amendment added to the bill does call for a "rating system for plans entering the state exchange based on relative quality and price." These ratings would be posted on exchange websites to allow consumers to compare prices and quality for similar plans...