For nearly two weeks, hundreds of the city's dock workers have been on strike, crippling the world's third-busiest container port.

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The French strike was crippling.

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We recognize that no matter how responsibly we live our lives, hard times or bad luck, a crippling illness or a layoff may strike any one of us.

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Moreover, even when the free market works as it should, both our countries recognize that no matter how responsibly we live in our lives, hard times or bad luck, a crippling illness or a layoff may strike any one of us.

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