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  • That establishes six films in the Batman series, and leads into a third trilogy to up the ante and complete the creation of a fully realized Batman world with most of the main elements from the comics in place.

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  • At its Global Tax Forum in Bermuda, which ends later today, the bureaucrats unveiled a new scheme that effectively would result in the creation of something akin to a World Tax Organization.

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  • He said he thought Dr. Seuss, whose work served as a sort of blueprint in rhyme for the creation of a just post-World War II civil society, would have countenanced the occasion.

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  • The art market is a second derivative of wealth creation in the world.

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  • In the midst of the longest economic expansion in the history of the world--and the greatest episode of individual wealth creation--a record number of people are going bankrupt.

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  • The implicit goal has always seemed to be the creation of a translucent plastic other-world so appealing and incompatible that PC users would be compelled to switch platforms entirely.

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  • And, so often forgotten when we come together to mourn the end of a video game, let us also spare a thought for the hard-working employees of BioWare, who waved their beautiful creation out into the world a mere month ago, only to see it hit repeatedly with Internet hammers.

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  • Holman talked about the technology and projects underway in Africa to reduce malaria through the creation of a Photonic Fence as well as ways to tackle the world energy crisis by addressing nuclear energy via TerraPower. (See a full list of the projects at Intellectual Ventures here).

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  • There was something to that argument: credit is a learned thing, both a legal concept and a social one that emerged in the developed world over centuries, whose core component is the creation of a sense of obligation between two perfect strangers.

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  • So is its corollary that the creation of a liberal, democratic order in the Arab world is in America's own long-term interest.

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  • America has also tried to mollify countries' concerns by allowing the creation of a fund, administered by the UN and World Bank, that will disburse countries' donations separately from the American-led coalition.

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  • The 311 individual panels from the window reveal a Christian history of the world, as told in the Bible, from Creation to the Last Judgement.

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  • He saved the British newspaper industry from being destroyed by thuggish print unions, endured years of losses to make satellite television a success, cracked the American television triopoly with the creation of Fox and gave the world Homer Simpson.

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  • Second, even to the extent that trade liberalization would raise the efficiency of the world economy, it is not, repeat not, a route to overall job creation.

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  • The European Union and the rest of the world cannot allow a cartel to be formed amongst leading national gas producers, as the creation of such a group would do nothing to prohibit the use of natural gas as a political weapon in the future.

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  • Mr Hirst, the dean of foreign correspondents in Beirut after five decades in residence, begins his tale with Lebanon's creation in the wake of the first world war, as a French gift to the Maronite Christians of the coastal Levant who had long seen Paris and the Vatican as their saviours.

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  • This introduction is meant to offer a glimpse into the rich world of audio creation and to hopefully inspire the reader to invest more time in Csound.

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  • But ABN has continually rebuffed its advances as it would prefer a merger with Barclays, which would lead to the creation of the world's biggest bank.

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  • Yet if a human destroys the wonders of creation, the beauty of the natural world, then anthropocentric society calls such people loggers, miners, developers, engineers, and businessmen.

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  • Plans to develop a new canal link within the Helix would include the creation of the world's largest equine sculptures in the form of two 30-metre-high Kelpie horse heads by sculptor Andy Scott.

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  • Unless a cure is found (and none is in sight) what is actually happening is the creation of a huge population of people who are dependent on the taxpayers of the rich world.

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  • New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced a CGI commitment that a group of the world's cities would be taking: The creation of an assessment framework for evaluating risks from climate change.

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  • And yet when he died in 1906, having set the world on a path to modernism, it was his paintings that led to the creation of a twentieth century icon.

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  • In 2005 it hosted the first World Cities Leadership Climate Change Summit, a meeting which paved the way for the creation of the C40 -- a group of large cities committed to tackling climate change that includes members as diverse as New York, Buenos Aires, Istanbul, Johannesburg and Jakarta.

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  • Lispector was born in Ukraine to a family still reeling from the pogroms and plagues that followed the first world war and the creation of the Soviet Union.

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  • My AmeriCorps experience gave me the renewed clarity I needed to pursue this new vision, a vision for a world where the concepts of technology-enabled education, life-long learning, and creation are front and center.

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