Between them the proposals could lead to the equivalent of 1, 362 full-time jobs going.

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The World Resources Institute estimate that if all the credits were translated into genuine pollution cuts it would lead to the equivalent of perhaps 23% American reductions on 1990 levels, which is very much in line with Europe's 20% offer.

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But a loss of 1, 400 seats would imply a lead over the Tories in terms of a national equivalent vote share of only some 4%, which would be very disappointing compared with Labour's 31% national opinion-poll lead.

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First, a drop in the exchange rate does not necessarily lead to an equivalent rise in the price of imported goods.

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Yet regardless of what happens to Danica at the Daytona 500, to celebrate her victory as a triumph for diversity would be the equivalent of celebrating as though she one the entire race because she lead the first lap.

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