By the same token, Russia's evident interest in maintaining multiple-warhead land-based missiles threatens to make a mockery of the START II agreement -- whose principal selling point was that it would de-MIRV the former Soviet ICBM force -- while creating new, and strategically significant, cheating opportunities for future agreements ostensibly promising still lower levels of nuclear weaponry.

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According to one of the ejected students, the school's associate principal made a point of approaching the stands before the game to warn students against making any racial comments at opposing fans.

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At some point the principal amortization is greater than the depreciation.

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One of them, Fatih Kandil, was formerly the principal of the Chesapeake Science Point (CSP) Public Charter School in Anne Arundel County, Maryland.

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After a while, we get the point: because children are the principal audience, the picture needs a PG-13 rating.

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Investors can get yield now in Italy, but at this point who can be sure that Italy is going to pay back the principal in full?

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What I am making a point about is that the Decisionl failed to explain why it awarded nearly half the principal sought.

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With the debt-ceiling crisis, however, the willingness to wait until the last moment removed any chance of learning and, more to the point, there was never much of a commitment to learning on the part of many of the principal actors: over and over again we were informed that such thoughtful exploration was out of the question because of prior campaign pledges made to constituents.

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