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Because glass is at once structural and transparent, it is relatively easy to consider the integration of structural and environmental building performance within a single integrated skin.
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Hard-core structural poverty has a counterpart at the apex: hard-core structural affluence.
The task for Germany today is - through its own policies and its own structural reforms, its own investments - to support the EU and the Commission... but every nation has to have the courage to broach such structural reforms and speak clearly about them without making people be afraid.
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Once we have conceived of time and space, once we have accepted their existence, then that implies that there is a structural order to bonding realities.
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