• People assessed as unfit to work and they are placed in what is called the Support Group.

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  • Colombia's current troubles have their roots in what is called The Violence, a senseless, murderous civil conflict that raged from 1948 to 1958, killing more than 200, 000 people.

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  • Its low interest rates, which drag down the currency, can entice arbitrageurs to borrow yen and buy higher-yielding notes elsewhere (see the crushing run-up in the Kiwi dollar) in what is called the carry trade, while favorably priced imports of Japanese manufacture, especially autos, are rubbing salt in wounded places like Detroit.

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  • Charged with insider trading in the fall of 2009, Rajaratnam appears to have been the mastermind in what is being called the largest-ever insider trading ring.

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  • The agency regulates pharmaceutical products but does not have a mandate to intervene in what is called "the practice of medicine"--that is, what doctors choose to do with approved products.

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  • Some of these reactions were expected but others raise serious concerns about the direction Latin America is taking in what is called "the battle of ideas".

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  • They are in the vanguard of what is called "hard" science fiction, in which most of the writing is based on actual scientific principles.

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  • On the other hand, the majors' strengthening of the hub-and-spoke networks (by which travelers go from A to B via a hub in airport C) imply that entry into new markets -- what in the industry is called "city-pairs" -- is relatively simple.

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  • The ice is what he called the risk of a serious slowdown in global economic growth, the fire is the fact that inflation may be back.

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  • But to be a successful government, you have to be a government which has a common purpose, and that common purpose is firstly to sort out the economy and, secondly - and this is certainly my great passion - is to make sure that at the same time we give greater opportunity for people to get ahead: what is called in the jargon "social mobility".

    BBC: Transcript of Nick Clegg interview

  • Normally this is when a pilot begins gently lifting the nose in what is called a flare.

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  • The regulators failed to regulate the economy that is why you had a crisis and when you had crisis then they had to keep the financial institutions alive in order to prevent the total big round and this creates what is called a moral hazard which allows the financial institutions to indulge in excessive lending and excessive profits and excessive stimulation.

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  • The alien is also given the right to partake of what is called the poor tithe, food resources distributed in the local towns at the city gate.

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  • Under church law they are obliged to visit Rome to report to the Pope on the state of their dioceses in what is called an "ad limina" (on the threshold of Saint Peter) visit.

    BBC: Who, What, Why: What does a pope do?

  • He had a huge appetite for life and I think what he gives to us in his music is what he terms, he called himself a foot solider in the service of music, and I think of him in that sense it would be the foot soldier reporting on the triumphs and tragedies of the world.

    NPR: Yo Yo Ma Reflects on Rostropovich

  • In addition, the law requires me to specify what is called "the punishment part" of that sentence.

    BBC: NEWS | UK | Scotland | Glasgow and West | Lord Menzies sentence statement

  • In December 2009 Copenhagen in Danemark is hosting what has been called the most important global summit since World War II, the United Nations Climate Conference, COP15.

    UNESCO: Communication and Information

  • Presumably, the Bush team is encouraging what might be called a coup in Baghdad in keeping with the President's oft-stated position that war is the last option.

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  • In his most recent speeches he cautioned that the Fed is limited in what it can do anyway, and called for Congress to step up to the plate.

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  • Carbo Ceramics is a leader in making what's called ceramic proppant, which is the synthetic material, sand-based often, with chemicals that are injected into the fractured rock to hold open the cavities so the natural gas goes up into the piping that captures it.

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  • The next day, November 20, the U.S. embassy in Abuja sent what is called a "Visas Viper cable" to the State Department detailing the father's concerns, according to an official account by State Department spokesman Ian Kelley.

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  • But exempting itself from losses in the event of what is euphemistically called "official-sector involvement, " or OSI, may not be that easy for the fund.

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  • The Internet is currently in what Gates called Phase 2, in which users view one site at a time, use the Web mostly to read information and remain chained to keyboards, while the economy's main stage remains offline.

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  • There is also the promise of major infrastructure investment in what Mr Osborne called "the great arteries of Britain".

    BBC: Budget 2013: Osborne swaps hair shirt for straitjacket

  • At different times throughout the year, government departments examine their own spending in what are called monitoring rounds when unspent money is returned to the Department of Finance and Personnel (DFP).

    BBC: Invest Northern Ireland set to return millions of pounds

  • Mr Hunt and his mother had previously taken their case to Cardiff County Court in 2012 but lost their applications to have the pier transferred to them, in what is called a "vesting order".

    BBC: Colwyn Bay Pier: Ownership battle ends up at High Court

  • What is believed to be causing this increase in the speed of expansion is called dark energy, making up more than 70% of the mass-energy - all of the "stuff" - of the Universe and the focus of the DECam's mission.

    BBC: Dark energy camera snaps first images ahead of survey

  • Co-researcher Professor Charles Poole warned that the possible benefits of consuming garlic might be somewhat overestimated in the study by what is called 'publication bias'.

    BBC: Garlic 'protects against cancer'

  • As it happens, how we became so indebted and what to do about it, is what I am examining in a two-part documentary, called The Party's Over, that will be broadcast on BBC Two at 1900 on 4 and 11 December.

    BBC: UK's debts 'biggest in the world'

  • For the moment, it is possible to form what's called a zeroed-out GRAT, in which the remainder is theoretically worth nothing so that there is no taxable gift.

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