Two decades after the end of the Cold War, we face a cruel irony of history -- the risk of a nuclear confrontation between nations has gone down, but the risk of nuclear attack has gone up.
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While commodity products like ETFs have natural price competition working in their favor and large institutions have internal staff and consultants to negotiate on their behalf, individual investors face a host of challenges in the war on fees.
Instead, a Maori warrior clutching a spear and with a face full of paint came running into the hall and began a ceremonial war dance.
Even in the face of a Great Depression, a World War, a Cold War, recessions, oil shocks, inflation and unemployment, Congress never sought to require the purchase of wheat or war bonds, force a higher savings rate or greater consumption of American goods, or require every American to purchase a more fuel efficient vehicle.
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But we now face a crisis that is the economic equivalent of war.
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MyTravel, based in Greater Manchester, is struggling in the face of a protracted travel sector downturn triggered by the war in Iraq and the Sars outbreak.
The irony of the labour market in Japan is that, despite unemployment being near a post-war record, Japanese companies will soon face a shortage of young workers.
Should we fail to do so, historians may well regard Ariel Sharon's legacy of weakening his country in the face of its enemies as the precursor to a devastating new phase in the War for the Free World.
On the face of it, he was as willing to wage war without a second resolution as with one.
"We face the prospect of NHS services being placed in the middle of a costly bidding war with private companies, discrete services cherry-picked for profit while the NHS is left to run the more complex and expensive services but with less money, " the Labour peer added.
Early in 2007, when David Petraeus became Commanding General of United States and international forces in Iraq, he had in mind a strategy to manage the political pressures he would face because of the unpopularity of the war, then four years old, and of its author, George W. Bush.
Because I think you've got to face up to the fact that if you are a conscientious objector in a time of war, of your country at war, then you are excluded from the assembly of your countrymen in a particular manner.
Shortly after, Mr. Welch's unit stormed the bridge, his face captured in a news photo that became one of the most widely viewed images of the war.
If he becomes defense secretary, Hagel will face the challenge of ending that U.S.-led war and overseeing a smaller training force in the country.
Some 22 months into the war -- and despite the world's sympathy -- they face a winter of freezing temperatures and uncertain food.
Garner and his team face a daunting task which ranges from restoring power and water to establishing the rule of law in the war-shattered country.
The debate underscores not only the complexities of Holocaust history but also the difficulty countries can face reconciling the heroic deeds of an individual during World War II with the record of a nation as a whole.
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