During 2012, we also started to see signs of reversing the most short-sighted decision in the world: international out-sourcing.

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For Labour, shadow chancellor Ed Balls said the report "underlines the short-sighted decision to abolish the regional development agencies in 2010".

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When the franchise was renewed in 2008, more than a few observers cringed at the short-sighted decision to deed the land to the state.

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