Increasingly, U.S. policymakers are looking at a more diverse diplomacy that no longer seeks to pick a single winner (and acknowledges silently that the U.S. may no longer be powerful enough to do so), but that attempts to encourage multiple players to prevent the Game being lost.

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Though profitable as ever, Microsoft has warned it will slip to single-digit growth, and it no longer crackles with the same manic energy.

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Post-colonial sensitivities mean that single states are no longer appointed as carers, and that a permanent transitional system cannot be developed.

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There is no evidence that they have any benefits after a single dose, and the longer term benefits of treatment over periods of six-months or longer are minimal.

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If the EU can replace all such deals, and Europe achieves a single continent-wide air-travel market, such considerations would no longer be an obstacle to mergers of this kind.

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