The starting-point should be that rising food prices bear more heavily on some places than others.
In dealing with the problems of regulation, a new set of proposed banking rules is a useful starting-point.
Most economists still expect inflation to fall in the coming months, but the starting-point is now higher than forecast.
The Stroppiana brothers' intuition that prefabrication would produce better tracks was the starting-point.
From this low starting-point, however, Mr Bush is spearheading what could be a big rethink in American aid policy.
The declared starting-point of a recession is then based on a compromise between the different times at which all these indicators start turning down.
To Mr Singh's credit, it is the plight of the poorest, not India's GDP growth-figures, that is usually the starting-point for his policy speeches.
Perhaps the biggest problem for Japan is that its starting-point was so much worse than America's or Europe's, says Alexander Kinmont of Morgan Stanley.
And indeed the Foreign Office has been keen to play down expectations of real outcomes from the conference, stressing that this is just a starting-point.
Excellent that Mr Prodi should take as his starting-point the apathy and wariness Europe's citizens show towards the institutions their leaders are busy constructing for them.
Despite a low starting-point for public debt, deficit overshoots have revealed insufficient central control over the 17 regions that are responsible for a big chunk of spending.
His starting-point must be that any action should provide consumers with choices they do not have today, and also stimulate innovation that would have otherwise been chilled.
In New Hampshire (still, despite the manoeuvres of bigger states, the starting-point for any presidential campaign) he has a large group of loyalists simply waiting for his word to start mobilising.
Although business folk now cry out for more investment in education, and although this is the essential starting-point for improving the prospects of blacks, Mr James adamantly refuses to raise taxes.
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As you know, we have taken significant steps to refocus our business on our starting point--must-buy strategies.
Overall, this report, along with the Rivlin-Domenici reform proposals, is a starting point for a much-needed debate over tax reform.
New York's Tenement House Museum now refers to its historic building, tellingly, not as slum housing but as an "urban log cabin"--a starting point for upward mobility.
During his departmental question session on 10 November, he told MPs that he had carried out a review following "considerable concern" about the 15-year starting point for judges considering the minimum tariff in knife murders.
At a downtown Chicago McDonald's that doesn't yet have the screens to display order numbers, but is starting to implement dual-point ordering by calling out the number on the receipts, service was fast and friendly on a recent day.
The budget-friendly Essential Series is the perfect starting point for any journey with accurate turn-by-turn directions, spoken street names and lane assist with junction views.
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Our starting point on super-delegate distribution is the delegate tally from Real Clear Politics.
Backup center Baye Moussa Keita (47) and starting point guard Michael Carter-Williams (45) lead the way.
The Olympic Park will be the starting point for a two-day cycling festival, it has been announced.
Davis, of course, was once thought to be the no-brainer choice at starting point guard once he was healthy.
After starting the season with a 10-point deduction, Saints battled back to miss out on a place in the League One play-offs by just seven points.
It's a useful starting point in the garden-party dress discussion, because it signifies the dramatic turnaround that has occurred in the past 10 years in terms of demure summer dressing.
It makes for unhappy but realistic reading for the US economy and it provides a starting point for a fantasy-free policy response to American decline as well as for the British.
Our starting point was the eye-catching assertion last year by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg that a single great software engineer can be more valuable than 100 others who are merely competent.
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Some of these, like the Ohio Tech Angels, have industries where they focus their support (and their funding) while others are general networks and a great starting point for any angel-friendly company.
And that was on the table in the final meeting -- or rather some of the final meetings last week -- as a general starting point upon which we should and could build if everyone were willing to compromise.
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