Interestingly, few recall how reviled Churchill was for most of the two decades preceding that terrible conflict.

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The history of this period, and of the decades preceding and following Israel's re-birth, is layered with controversy, yet one dominant motif of this history stands out.

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In the two preceding decades, the productivity of American workers had grown more slowly than that of Japanese and European competitors.

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Both have seen dramatic cost increases in preceding decades.

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