For my Gen X brethren, even if we feel safely distant from such bad corporate behavior, our parents can certainly validate it.

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The transfer of power in 2010 from the army to civilian authorities has been one of the main advances of Myanmar's political transition, so any step back, even if only in a distant corner, has worried reformers.

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One can argue that it is not America's job to fix the world's problems, to stop the killings in distant lands even if, as we now know, those killings involve horrific weapons banned by international agreements that set a limit to our inhumanity even in times of war.

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But the broadcasters accuse EchoStar of selling distant signals to customers even if they can receive local stations.

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Even if the complete repair of a broken nervous system is a distant dream, researchers think that engineering better neural prosthetics will help treat different nervous system diseases.

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No doubt the Westminster Parliament would have talked about these issues even if there'd been no devolution - but it would have been a more distant discussion, more easily ignored and needing less of a local contribution.

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Even if a significant portion of the Bosnia Serb artillery deployed around the city is relocated to more distant firing positions -- which is by no means clear at this writing -- such weapons will hardly have been rendered unusable or turned over to the UN's safekeeping, as envisioned in the NATO ultimatum.

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