When I was younger, I tended to look for external reasons when any situation did not work out in my favor.

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"I believe that what happens in Bulgaria has its internal but also external reasons and background, " he replied, when asked whether he believed Russia had a hand in stirring up discontent in Bulgaria, because of anger over the loss of such lucrative contracts.

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Tighter fiscal policy and continued external headwinds are the reasons we maintain our forecast that interest rates will be lowered to 9% during the present cycle.

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Why even contemplate the replacement of Steve Jobs if not for external (e.g. illness) reasons?

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This suggests that most of the trade in foreign exchange is directed to settle external trade balances, rather than for speculative reasons.

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But the problem with that is that it really misses what is currently very, very much critical and that is that one of the reasons that our regulatory system failed because there was a lack of both internal and external transparency.

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