He not only preserved this once-artificial kingdom (arbitrarily created by the British after World War I) from often hostile, predatory Arab neighbors, but he also made Jordan into an increasingly self-confident, tolerant (at least by Middle East standards) state.

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SwiftKey capitalized on this principle by scouring countless sources and combining natural language processing and artificial intelligence to understand better the context of what a person is trying to write.

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Compare this supply-side approach to the Keynesian solution recommended by Reich that puts artificial job creation and demand-side government stimulus first.

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According to this theory it is the artificial lowering of interest rates and creation of excess credit by a central bank's monetary policy that causes investors to erroneously believe that economic conditions are better than they actually are, leading to an abundance of overconfidence.

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This same staph bug has rippled through the National Football League, infecting muscular limbs skinned by artificial turf.

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