For example, much of the world will be able to see the space station Mir without a telescope through the end of August.

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He compared that kind of nationwide upping of security to what happened during World War II, though without any indication that this was a war that could ever end.

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He is acutely aware that the world has arrived at the end of the second era of globalisation without a plan and may fall back on the remedies of the first such era that produced even greater chaos than we are now witnessing.

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But no analyst in the world believes that banks can end their addiction to state-supported loans without there being a negative effect on credit provision for households and businesses.

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In July 2011, Albert gave an emotional televised address, appealing to political leaders to display "modern citizenship" to bring an end to a drawn-out crisis, which left the country without an elected government for a world-record one-and-a-half years.

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