That is as true of the U.S., the U.K. and particularly Japan, as it is of most of the euro zone.
But no one thought that the number of contractors operating as part of a broader U.S. force would be as high as it is now.
President Obama, I'm not an environmentalist and I'm not a scientist, but it doesn't take a genius to figure out that something is wrong in the environment if it's October, and the weather is as it is. (Laughter.) I recently -- I'm a Louisiana native, and I recently moved back home from California, where there, it was a big push for going green and environmental policies.
It is worth it as costly and as difficult and sometimes as controversial as it is.
However, it is as fragile as it is beautiful.
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Arguably, then, gold's rise to date is not as much a reflection on U.S. monetary management as it is an echo of the commodity boom.
What all this shows is that despite Paulson's efforts to shoot a silver bullet into the heart of the financial market turmoil, it's difficult if not impossible to succeed when the target is zigzagging as much as it is.
Jones Group is less likely to expand in the U.S. market as it is already consolidating its underperforming stores.
But the FORM 1 isn't just razzle-dazzle, underneath that outer shell is that self-developed technique for bringing stereolithography to the masses, and seeing it in action is as hypnotic as it is innovative.
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Should the drug make it to market, it might help many of the 14, 400 patients who develop multiple myeloma each year in the U.S. As it is, most die within five years.
The NX1000 is highly portable and its eye-catching compact design makes it as useable as it is attractive.
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As the participants at the AMA conference agreed, as all smart business people agree, creativity is as necessary as it is elusive.
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Misbah's calmness extends to his batting, and the accumulative style he characterizes has come to dominate the current line-up, giving it a solidity quite at odds with the stereotype of Pakistani batsmen as risk-taking run-plunderers whose strokeplay is as impetuous as it is thrilling.
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Since just about everyone - and most especially President Bush - is keen to combat the spread of diseases like AIDS, packaging a global tax as a way greatly to increase the funds available for this purpose is as seductive as it is cynical.
Every year, I promise myself to write a column about this in the middle of the summer because it is as relevant then as it is now.
When Jackie Earle Haley, known of late for playing deviants and psychopaths, shows up in "Lincoln" as a representative of the Confederacy, you can be sure his cause is as wrong as it is lost.
With plenty of singing and dancing, some graveside chicken mole (or another favourite dish of the deceased) and a shot or two of tequila, it is an experience that's as moving as it is magical.
The hip TV take on the Afghan war is as entrancing as it is numbing.
Raimond Gaita's insights are original and his prose is as eloquent as it is affecting.
There is also a cringe-inducing optical surgery sequence which is as amusing as it is unpleasant.
But, for the most part, the development is as cynical as it is greedy.
The sound of a baby struggling for breath with whooping cough is as distressing as it is distinctive.
There are challenges, among them, American Magazine's cozy alliance with Wal-Mart is as problematic as it is helpful.
His hold on Indonesia is such that talk of his successor is as unsettling as it is commonplace.
The increased call for gun control after the Newtown, Connecticut atrocity is as mistaken as it is predictable.
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The continual tinkering at the edges is as obscene as it is ludicrous.
The impact of the federal statute is as appalling as it is ironic.
But the criticism leveled at him is as opportunistic as it is hypocritical.
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Tonight, we celebrate a story that is as beautiful as it is simple.
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Envelop yourself in this city's passion and 19th-century charm for an escape that is as genteel as it is surreal.
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