Nonetheless, a lesson of the 1930s is that the existence of two semi-dominant currencies (in that case, the pound and the dollar) can be destabilising.
Indeed a lesson of recent economic history is that countries and regions that ride out a crisis well are all the more vulnerable to the next one.
But a lesson of the past century is that government can influence the behavior of big corporations, by requiring transparency about their performance and costs, and by enacting rules and limitations to protect the ordinary citizen.
But it does underline a lesson of past recessions that the ONS were reluctant to accept at the time of that 2009 debate: that they get it most wrong when the economy is 'on the turn'.
Swansea's stunning win was also in front of a record Liberty Stadium crowd of 19, 309 that were treated to a footballing lesson of how to dominate your opponent - and Swansea had star midfielders Leon Britton and Darren Pratley on the bench.
While this fundamentally conservative approach avoids risky investment, it arguably comes with a significant opportunity cost ( a key lesson of the 2012 Presidential campaign): a missed chance to take advantage of technologies already available and to gain expertise in navigating this important, emerging space.
Prof Yanis Varoufakis, head of the Department of Economic Policy at the University of Athens, says that Turkey's experience of 15 years ago provides a stark lesson of what might happen if the country were to leave the euro.
And as a little bit of a history lesson, the custom of selecting an official holiday theme began in the 1960s when First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy created a nutcracker-themed Christmas for her daughter Caroline.
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It was while reading a charming news item about the company that I began to think about the Apple brand and how it might take a lesson out of the LEGO playbook as it looks to the future, hopefully a future as a brand that keeps its remarkable edge.
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Check out the source link for a full walkthrough of the device and a brief history lesson of webOS' last days.
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The Celebrity Beach Bowl is a good lesson of rarely, right out of the gate, do you do something perfect.
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Was not a primary lesson of the past, from Prussia to Weimar and the Third Reich, that the army must never show force inside Germany?
With the ravages of football's financial implosion encompassing everyone from Premier League champions Manchester United to lowly Chester City, Newport's story is also a salutary lesson of what could yet be to come.
So as far as the Middle East and Central Asia are concerned, a primary lesson of the Cold War relates to the relative weight the US can securely place in its alliance with Israel on the one hand, and its alliance with the Saudis on the other.
He's a living symbol of a lesson that many top-tier athletes seem unable to learn once they get to the pros: That as good as you already are, you can always get better.
The Irish are some of the hardest working and caring people on the face of the Earth, they have had a short sharp lesson of the power of modern world economics whilst making huge strides in their quality of life and they will be better for it.
There's a bit of a chemistry lesson in Perfumes (Turin is a biophysicist--Sanchez, a perfume critic, but no slouch in the science department either).
And finally, all of you taught us a lesson about the character of our country.
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She stared back at him with the neutral innocence of a child waiting obediently for the start of a piano lesson.
With the benefit of a perfect memory of student's past responses, a computer lesson should also be able to identify some of these patterns and offer up novel challenges at the right time.
It's a lesson for some of the younger players for the standards they have to reach.
This is a lesson all 30 of the Bushwick kids witnessed on their trip.
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The children also get a lesson in two of the three Rs (reduce, reuse, recycle).
Each should serve as a lesson to all of us and serve as a not-so-gentle reminder that ignorance is still rampant in our world and common sense is a truly lost art for for many.
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The music industry provides a salutary lesson in the dangers of building a business around charging too much for too-large bundles of content (in its case, CD albums).
So on our next trip to my husband's homeland of Scotland, we booked a lesson at the British School of Falconry at the Gleneagles Hotel, whose 850 acres of Scottish highland is quite the setting for pretending to be a clan chief hunting for dinner.
For the first few seconds he can only stare at the impossibility blooming before him, and it is at this moment that he recalls one of his earliest lessons, a lesson learned in the prehistory of his youth, when he was still called David Henry, when he still bore his given names so ordered to honor the paternal uncle he would never meet.
Inside one of the classrooms of the grey 19th Century stone school building, there is a different kind of lesson going on.
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