All this suggests that health care itself may not prove decisive at November's elections, even as that vote itself may end up determining the fate of health reform.

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Even further back, we remember that the only reason the Kingdom of Judea did not suffer the same fate as the Kingdom of Israel in the end of the 8th century BCE is because as the ten tribes of Israel were expelled into oblivion, King Hezkiyahu saved Jerusalem from the Assyrians.

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The attack happened one day before consultations in New York on the fate of the mission, whose mandate expires by the end of the week.

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For example, on March 9, 2009 the market was very worried about the fate of the global banking system and stock prices were discounting the end of the world.

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With just hours to go before the end of a bitterly fought presidential race, the candidates turn it over to voters to decide their fate.

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But the Moulinex story is also a cautionary tale about European business, because its fate was ultimately decided by the control structure that resulted from its merger at the end of last year with Brandt, the Italian offshoot of El.

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She spoke for many hours about her life and fate in the small Caucasus republic that has shaped much of what has happened in Russia since the end of the Soviet Union.

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