It shows that Obama is not open to entitlement reform that involves any significant reduction in spending, and in a second term will just seek to increase taxes to finance the still further enormous runup in federal spending due to runaway entitlements.

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Officers from across England and Wales attended an open meeting in London to protest at a 20% reduction in the policing budget and a pay freeze.

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So the report calls on the Europeans, slow to open their purses (America spends more on co-operative threat-reduction in a year than Europeans have over the past ten, points out one impatient American official), to pay for the work at Russia's civilian nuclear sites, leaving America free to hurry up work at trickier military ones.

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If you're serious about deficit reduction, then there's no excuse to keep these loopholes open.

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With the P7700, features like a noise reduction filter, tone level information, COOLPIX Picture Control and versatile bracketing functions open the door for even more creative control and freedom when capturing still images.

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Another benefit would be the reduction of political costs that usually accompanies U.S. military deployments abroad in open-ended U.N. peacekeeping operations.

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And since open pits are still flooded and will take weeks to drain, shipping from stockpiles only postpones the inevitable: a reduction in met coal supply.

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U.S. stock futures point to a sharply lower open on Wall St Monday as the congressional supercommittee looks set to announce it was unable to reach a deficit-reduction.

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