Yet the drift to the dollar standard was somehow judged as a sign of progress.
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Yet the drift to the cities from the backward countryside is unlikely to slow.
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The only concern I have now, is that the game might drift to far into the interactive film territory.
"Tinkering here and there and hoping we'll drift to a solution simply won't cut it any more, " he said.
Had Mr McCain won, America would have continued the long drift to the left that set in with Franklin Roosevelt.
While such debates grind on, impoverished victims of the tsunami are likely to drift to cities or abroad seeking employment.
The drift to the suburbs has slowed and the capital's population is predicted to swell by a further 10% by 2031.
Would he drift to the left, where he has tended to find succour and supporters in his feuds with his neighbour?
Some of Hearst's drift to the right can be attributed to age.
Their shrieks of laughter drift to the shore on the sea air.
So Estrada addressed just about every issue - from Concord to policy drift to corruption to crime - that had been eroding his popularity and his administration's effectiveness.
As long as the country is in danger of leaving the euro, growth will continue to shrink, bail-out targets will be missed and politics will drift to extremes.
Up-market independents may be siphoned off by Ralph Nader, the consumer advocate and likely Green Party candidate, while down-market ones could drift to Pat Buchanan, the likely Reform Party candidate.
He was lucky to win that match at all, and he almost lost, letting a 5-0 lead drift to 5-4 before he nailed it, on the third throw, with a double 10.
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He had a habit of ripping pages out once he had read them and stuffing them into his pocket or of letting them drift to the ground so as to lessen the freight.
The country has been split between politicians who have strong EU ambitions, and those who lean more towards Russia - with ECR group leader Michal Kaminsky saying that the EU should not let Ukraine "drift to the east".
But what these gentlemen are going to be able to do is when the news media starts seeing its attention drift to other things but there's still enormous needs on the ground, these two gentlemen of extraordinary stature I think are going to be able to help ensure that these efforts are sustained.
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Phillipos says he replied, "Do what you have to do, " then managed to drift off to sleep.
'We don't intend to drift back to anything which seeks to manipulate our exchange rate, ' he said.
Mr Rumsfeld is notorious for his "snowflake" memos which are meant to drift down to Pentagon staff, carrying the defence secretary's thoughts and concerns.
"The indiscriminate selling has stopped and the market is trying to drift up to a neutral setting rather than an oversold setting, " said Art Hogan, chief market analyst at Jefferies.
His out-of-the-(pizza)-box thinking caused the conversation to drift from tax to politics, and things seemed to quiet down a bit.
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Instead, they are all too likely to let the system drift closer to the point at which the money runs out, then enact a series of emergency proposals -- and trust to luck.
It is always easier to let an investigation languish or drift than to shut it down, and making the hard decision to cut one short frequently does not come with any immediate or obvious professional advantage.
Indeed, it is a slower speed that enables such an aircraft to be so quiet: it would drift in to land rather than powering in, all engines blazing, as today's jets do.
Pretending to doze off, I let the car drift gently to the left.
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Or curl up with a hot water bottle as the temperature drops and listen to the whoop calls of hyena as you drift off to sleep.
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