Polls now suggest that the result could go either way: almost all of Venezuela's shrinking middle class is hostile to the president, but some 60% of the poor support him.

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From a pilot's standpoint and from an imagination of what this kind of aircraft can do for us in an objective area, when you need to get in and out quickly in a hostile condition, this airplane has just got almost unbounded potential.

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Hostile bids are rare in India, and successful ones almost unheard of.

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Years of hostile headlines about the European Union have made sensible public debate of Britain's EU interests almost impossible: instead successive governments talk tough at home while pursuing pragmatism in Brussels.

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