This will push Mr Sarkozy into hard talk on immigration, and keep open the possibility of a first-round shock.

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But "if we don't push hard, people will fall into complacency, " says Karim Bangcola, executive director of the Philippines presidential commission on Y2K compliance.

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Obama, he claimed, will want to push hard to force Israel to come to an agreement with the Palestinians as soon as he comes into office.

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They knew enough to understand how hard they could push without breaking things (the rate of return they demanded would soon ossify into a ritualized expectation of stable growth rates, a big enabler of the rise of a middle class that could basically withdraw from the risk frontier).

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