Missing an important event was not only an opportunity lost forever, but it also sent the wrong message about priorities to an impressionable young person.
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That has the power to unleash a wave of entrepreneurship that can not only increase the GDP but also change the economic face of a nation forever.
Other fiscal pain has also been put off, but cannot be avoided forever.
Mr Westerwelle said Germany was in Afghanistan to defend its own security - "that is why this mission is right, but it is also right that it cannot go on forever", the Associated Press news agency reported him as saying.
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Calculations by scientists, who are forever totting up times but are often bad at mental arithmetic, will also be much easier if they can just move decimal points instead of multiplying and dividing.
The most articulate and powerful of the finger-pointers was author John Steinbeck, whose book The Grapes of Wrath had not only leapt onto the best-seller list after its publication in April but was also well on its way to becoming seared into the public's imagination forever.
But this year the only other kid-friendly movie on the horizon is Shrek Forever After (also from DreamWorks Animation) which hits theaters this weekend.
The day was a somber reminder of the lives lost in the shipwreck, but it was also important for the 900 residents of Giglio to commemorate an event that changed their island forever.
Unions have served a vital role in improving the lot of educators in America, but that does not mean that they will always and forever fulfill that role in a way that is also in the best interests of society at large.
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