| And it spends billions each year in social welfare programs that are endlessly duplicative and of dubious value. |
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| It was excessively long and duplicative, but it deals with an important subject. |
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| The current reality is an increasingly fragmented and duplicative picture of international financing opportunities for actors at all levels. |
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| Americans have cried for decades that our federal government is bloated, that there are too many duplicative and unnecessary laws. |
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| There is also a possibility that already limited resources will be directed towards duplicative TK studies. |
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| Although the results of new reviews may not be duplicative, the resources and effort that go into them most certainly are. |
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| Even allies like America and Britain are not beyond conducting duplicative probes, as Alstom can attest. |
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| For example, a party may decide to pre-screen e-mail to remove information that is personal, non-responsive, or duplicative. |
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| As such, it is imperative to coordinate this Action with the actions of the Infrastructure Project so as to avoid duplicative efforts. |
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| There were also several outcome statements that should be re-examined due to their duplicative nature. |
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| Greater integration and coordination of efforts into effects would help to address resource constraints and reduce duplicative research. |
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| These inscriptions and patterns included conical imprints whose duplicative quality insinuated the instant gratification and subsequent disposal that affects most cities. |
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| There is a lack of accountability in the system which can lead to multiple and duplicative assessments and fragmented treatment. |
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| I'd like the comments to be a good and readable source of answers for readers, so I've deleted some comments that were erroneous, duplicative, nonresponsive, and the like. |
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| Durban follow-up activities were duplicative of work done by the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, the Human Rights Committee and the ILO Conventions addressing workers' rights. |
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| Temporary loss-disallowance regulations limit a consolidated group's duplicative losses incurred on the sale of a subsidiary member's stock. |
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| This is to ensure that duplicative and possibly inconsistent information about a project or environmental assessment is not posted on the Internet site or added to the project file. |
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| Many of these proposals are often duplicative and tied to a news event. |
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| Whether because of national pride, incompatible priorities or the desire to prop up domestic industries, European defence spending is fragmented and duplicative. |
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| Doctors order duplicative or unnecessary tests. |
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| The CCAB would also have the power to draw a line under some of the worst things to come out of the UNFCCC talks, such as conceptual funds and market based mechanisms that are duplicative and redundant. |
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| The challenge, therefore, will be to align these various review and oversight bodies to ensure complimentary forms of meaningful protection rather than imposing unnecessary and duplicative hurdles. |
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| The evaluation will also determine the extent to which roles, work programmes and activities are complementary or duplicative, and propose ways to strengthen the interaction between them. |
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| I cannot imagine that anyone believes it would be useful to have two or three sets of overlapping and possibly duplicative rules managed by two or three sets of arbitrators. |
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| This will reduce costs directly related to duplicative testing and certification of a product in order to legally market it in the territory of the other Party. |
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| If individual countries can confidently rely on test data developed in other countries, duplicative testing can be avoided, thereby saving time and resources. |
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| These agreements create a simplified and harmonized conformity assessment regime which has the effect of eliminating costly and time-consuming duplicative conformity assessment. |
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| Unnecessary or duplicative reporting requirements should be dropped. |
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| Aboriginal groups have increasingly expressed a concern about having to prepare many reports for different programs, many of which are duplicative. |
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| Delays in implementation have extended the use of existing duplicative, stovepiped systems, and the need to fund them. |
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| Avoid unnecessary duplicative disclosure that can overwhelm readers. |
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| As a result of these shortcomings, federal agencies are still independently acquiring and maintaining potentially duplicative and costly data sets and systems. |
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