There is no long-run history of a commercial market.

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In the long run, if history is a guide, the institutional damage that General Musharraf is wreaking will make Pakistan even more unstable.

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In Sweden, parental co-operatives run many pre-schools, and they have a long history in the country.

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On the one hand, he noted that Microsoft has a long history of providing cross-platform applications. (You can run Office on the Mac, for instance.) And he also noted that you can run the limited function Web-based version of Office in a browser on basically any device at all, including iPads and iPhones, to read documents and do some light editing.

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That history can best be described as a diminished sensitivity to risk, caused by a long run of success.

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