And as they seek to avoid a final reckoning, central planners are preventing the adjustments that everyone knows are necessary.

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It is not clear what, if anything, each of these companies might be ordered to contribute to a final reckoning.

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Vladimir Weiss came on for the final seconds of regulation time and, after the match moved into extra-time, the winger played a big part in the final reckoning.

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There is now much discussion in Berlin of what the final reckoning could be if the bailouts fail in a catastrophic collapse.

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As much as it may have evolved, in the human animal, as a motivation system for mate-finding, it was rarely given great consideration in the final reckoning of conjugal choice.

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