This is not some legal nicety that the House of Representatives can ignore, as it has many other elements of due process.

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That might sound like an accounting nicety, but the level of tangible versus intangible assets can impact important things like the satisfying of loan covenants.

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However, Izumi Kawanishi has made it no secret that he wants email on the PSP, and a keyboard would be quite a nicety if that's in the cards.

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To most people in the main western democracies, the reports from Kosovo of torture, rape, looting and summary killing are so horrific that defeating Belgrade has seemed more important than any nicety of international law or diplomatic precedent.

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But that is a mere nicety.

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