Speaking recently in Brussels, the IMF's Nemat Shafik compared such a process of internal devaluation to painting a house.

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S. in toxicology from the University of California, Davis, where he began managing a house-painting company.

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Raphael died his sudden Easter death in a house in this square, whilst painting Margherita's face into his Transfiguration.

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Then they gave a price for painting the outside walls of the house and the crippled man said it was too much.

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Inside the golden domed State House on Beacon Hill is an oil painting of Romney with a copy of a bill decorated in a medical symbol beside a portrait of his wife Ann.

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"When I got my letter last Thursday, it was infuriating to find out that surreptitiously the painting had been removed and the parties involved had the gall to state this was a moral decision to help the Seward House, " she told the Citizen of Auburn.

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