Normally a country would respond to a weakening of its currency by increasing exports, but in an economy ravaged by Dutch Disease there is little immediate ability to increase exports because the manufacturing sector has become so weak and withered and the country so dependent on imports.

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If the duck candidate has shown sufficient signs of being untrustworthy, so weak and vacillating that in post-election he might easily become a hawk, the electorate would choose the more trustworthy parrot.

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"Life was too short for Roger to be defeated by illness, so when Roger's body became weak, we saw how his mind become sharper, " Emanuel said.

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So management fees have become an important source of profits for VC firms, especially those that have posted weak and negative returns to their investors in the post-2000 years.

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