• Pursue reform, he argues, and Japan should be able to grow at a respectable 2% a year.

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  • What I find concerning about this is that the protagonists here are a respectable journalist and a mega-corporation.

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  • This seems like a great way to approach the challenge and is a respectable innovation for a company that makes most of its revenue from enterprise software and services.

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  • Before being plucked from obscurity, he had enjoyed a respectable career as a chemistry teacher (sulphur dioxide was his speciality) at a technical university in the grim industrial south.

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  • In fact, it won 14.7% of the vote: a respectable score, but a little down on its 1997 figure, and far below some of its opinion-poll scores in the years between.

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  • In the newer and more area-specific Regional Snowfall Index, this recent storm came in behind the No. 1 storm in 1969 and ranked a more respectable 16th with a 9.04 total score.

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  • But Goodwin clawed her way back toward a semblance of a respectable life and had a job waiting for her upon her release in April, thanks to a company called Televerde, which operates four call centers at Perryville.

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  • The libertarian core point, a deeply respectable one in a republic, is that the power belongs in the hands of the people, not the elites, and that society, not government, is far more likely to use the power to create jobs.

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  • Though Marrone brought Syracuse football back to a respectable place and laid a solid foundation he was 25-25 in four seasons at his alma mater with bowl victories over Kansas State and West Virginia Shafer has his work cut out as the school prepares to leave the Big East Conference for the Atlantic Coast Conference July 1.

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  • The Lumia 822 is a free phone with a 2-year contract at Verizon and its specs are certainly respectable for a freebie smartphone.

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  • Real disposable income is rising by a respectable 1.7% a year a big improvement on a year ago, when it was shrinking.

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  • Born in Tuzla in northern Bosnia in 1930, Plavsic had led a quiet, respectable life as a biology professor at Sarajevo University.

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  • "Abdoul is a respectable opponent and can give me a sterner test than Cruzat, " said Swansea's Maccarinelli.

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  • You won't want to stick a regular antenna into this TV though, as it comes with a respectable 1366 x 768 resolution at a 1600:1 contrast ratio.

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  • Ticket sales have averaged about 2, 800 per game over the past couple of years, respectable in a down economy but not where a league touting several 4, 000-plus seat arenas wants to be.

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  • As ever, tee-to-green efficiency had to be rounded off with a sure touch on the greens and Scott came up with the goods, taking a more-than-respectable 29 putts a time.

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  • Overall, the Series 7 Gamer is a respectable, well-designed rig with only a hint of the stereotypically hardcore.

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  • Meanwhile Samsung has already blessed the market with its flagship ATIV S, a respectable rehash of the Galaxy S III with a Microsoft soul.

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  • Jerusalem (CNN) -- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's party got the most votes in Israel's national election Tuesday, but a respectable showing by centrists could slow or halt a rightward swing in the government.

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  • Not surprisingly the sound of the Twenty, which outputs a respectable 20 watts per channel, is transparent and probably a lot cleaner than the stack of gear you had in your dorm room.

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  • Much the same could be said of the rest of the book, which does a respectable enough job of Hong Kong's history in a small space but offers little that will be new to anyone who has read a book on the territory before.

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  • And despite the disappointment of seeing victory snatched from them late on, the Seasiders can reflect on a respectable start of four points from their opening three games and a strong recovery from the potentially damaging 6-0 loss at Arsenal.

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  • McMillan finished with a respectable Test batting average of 38.46 but became regarded as a limited-overs player in the latter stages of his career.

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  • Stephen's bell--the Pummerin--rang at midnight, Empress Sisi (a schoolteacher in real life) and a darn respectable Franz Joseph wished us all a fabulous new year.

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  • Valentine maintains he did a respectable job in Boston under lousy circumstances, but it never felt like a fit.

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