Nevertheless, in the long run China hopes that economic interdependency and goodwill will eventually encourage the island to return to the fold.

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So the next wanna-be Jeter free agent may want to be a Philyanksox so he can cash in on his current goodwill for a post-player economic life.

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Only his own imposing stature, he reckons, can keep Germany ensconced within a growing Europe and harness what is still the continent's economic powerhouse to the promotion of peace and goodwill.

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Please, I would like to ask all those who have positions of responsibility in economic, political and social life, and all men and women of goodwill: let us be "protectors" of creation, protectors of God's plan inscribed in nature, protectors of one another and of the environment.

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With goodwill on both sides unification could make this work much better than division, to the economic benefit of both sides.

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Whether that spirit of goodwill can be kept alive when the afterglow has faded and Britons wake up to headlines about their worsening economic problems and a coalition government in deepening disarray remains to be seen.

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