The fact is, even in this depressed world situation, economies that are export oriented, high-tech and can expand domestic services - including mixed-economy health services - are growing.

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It ignores the change in many poor countries, and the extraordinary transformation in the ex-communist ones, where the state's control of the economy, total hitherto, has been rolled back to something resembling the western mixed-economy model.

ECONOMIST: The visible hand

However, when banks wean themselves off the life-support of loans from the state and the central bank, it is a mixed blessing for the economy - in that banks always do this, in part, by shrinking the loans and investments they make.

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HMOs to choose from, a mixed economy of for-profit and non-profit hospitals, and citizens less inclined than ever to accept whatever the medical profession condescends to offer.

ECONOMIST: For-profit medicine

BERR's message is that the government favours a mixed economy, not a post-industrial jungle, and will take steps to promote one.

ECONOMIST: The government has hopes of prompting a revival

Which is why the European Central Bank's trillion euros of emergency three-year loans to banks is a mixed blessing for the eurozone economy.

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Middle-market executives have a mixed opinion on the performance of the US economy, which can affect their attitude towards innovation within their company.

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This program identifies, assesses, trains, and places community members, including military veterans, into careers in transportation and mixed-use development projects, which, in turn, grows the local workforce and strengthens the economy.

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