Travel back in time with me some thirty five years ago to a far, distant country.
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EU. It must prove itself a strong and far-sighted country, not merely a big or a stubborn one.
But a sports team is not a cult, and Penn State is not some extreme religious order tucked away in a far-off country, protected by a powerful Pope.
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The last four months of negotiations between politicians have been a reminder of how far Bosnia is from functioning as a normal country.
Grubert and Altshuler figure the rate on investment in a low-tax country would rise to a negative 4.4 percent under the per-country version, far higher than the negative 24 percent under current law.
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And before the advent of mass media, military heroism lent instant fame in a far-flung country, says Chernow.
It has had a good crisis, being the only EU country to avoid a recession, at least so far.
All of these plans in my view are a rip-off and far more expensive than local alternatives when you arrive in a foreign country.
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The Japanese media have drawn attention to a quake of magnitude 6.6 on the far side of the country, between Nagano and Niigata prefectures, and to a quake of magnitude 6.1 in Shizuoka prefecture, both within days of the main quake.
It has a rating of 62 out of 100 so far on Metacritic, a site that aggregates reviews from around the country.
As a result, the country's banks as a group are by far the healthiest in Eastern Europe.
But it will amount to little if Mr Berger fails to defeat the epidemic of violent crime that has seen almost 2, 000 murders so far this year in a country of only 11.5m people.
These days there is a gold-standard tick-list: a house behind a gate (Belgravia for Italians, Chelsea for Russians), a Gerhard Richter for the wall, the kids in one of a handful of schools, the right portfolio of charities, a place in the country not too far from London.
Mr Major, who preaches the equal opportunities for which his own life is a conspicuous advertisement, has far to go if ever he is to impose that vision on a deeply conservative country.
In 2005, Americans will celebrate a far different country, if they celebrate Earth Day at all.
Honduras is far from the only country in the region with a murder problem.
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For its people however, a far greater danger is their country's dependence on this gas.
China's own high-speed railway network has been lauded as a symbol of this country's far-sighted infrastructure investment policy.
The kingdom is now a complex, diverse country far removed from the Al Sauds' Bedouin origins.
Mr Aristide did not offer a solution, but he was far from the country's only problem.
Absent a common currency in the form of the dollar, the U.S. would still be a rich country, but far less vibrant for all the wasted effort necessary to facilitate interstate trade given 50 different floating money concepts.
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States and local governments have always had a far larger role in this country, and have footed the bill as well.
They have also raised the spectre of credit problems in a country that has so far been spared the worst of the global squeeze.
To many Mexicans, Chiapas, its poverty and its Zapatist rebels are like Czechoslovakia to pre-1939 Britons, a far-off country of which they know little and would gladly hear less.
After a few years of such imbalances, the country unsurprisingly ended up with far too many houses.
But youthful enthusiasm can only take you so far in any sport, particularly from a war-ravaged country with little competitive structure.
Thanks partly to the Irish diaspora, created by a century and a half of emigration, the country has far more clout than its small population might suggest.
New Jersey, with 5.8m registered drivers, has the highest car-insurance rates in the country, and the governor has so far failed to make a dent in them.
As a result, the country's aviation industry has grown far slower than many other developing nations.
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