After earlier securing the go-ahead from the European Union, on condition the combined group sells its Dewar's and Ainslie scotch brands, this week the group won approval from the US authorities, though it too demanded concessions - the sale of Dewar's and of Bombay gin.
Israel's steady economic growth and its recently discovered natural gas fields should make it possible for Israel to decrease the military aid it receives from the US. This is true even though the revolutions in Egypt and throughout the Arab world will require Israel to massively increase its defense budget.
Berlin and Paris want to deny American peacekeeping troops (to say nothing of US troops on military missions) protections from frivolous or politically motivated prosecutions by third governments, though the EU as a whole has supported exempting US forces from extradition to the ICC.
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Although detox has no scientific meaning, cutting the garbage from our diets left us feeling fantastic by the time we left, though some joked that we felt great because we were leaving.
The turkey is the centrepiece of the US Thanksgiving tradition, though the specimens we eat today are a far cry from their hunted wild relatives, reminiscent of the birds early settlers would have found and Native Americans hunted.
The US still has its AAA from Fitch and Moody's (though in the case of Moody's, there's a negative outlook).
It's a little better than the design method used on the Droid DNA, where the power button is completely flush and quite difficult to press, though the buttons here still gave us trouble from time to time.
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And wherever he landed in California that day, it was as though the country hadn't known the stock market crash and the miseries of the Depression (or the triumphs of FDR, for that matter), as though even the war he was there to prevent us from entering hadn't so much as crossed anyone's mind.
Even though we sat in offices mere feet from the boss, she wanted us to send frequent e-mail updates on our progress.
Our inability leads us to reject the logical and historical conclusions to be drawn from the facts, though we could, and should know better.
"This won't prevent us from going abroad to study, " he said, though he noted the U.S. hadn't been in his plans.
Though I did know the basics of this from my college days as a US history major (before I turned to biochemistry), I found the similarity of the rhetoric quite surprising.
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Though such events seem to spring from nowhere, as if the cortex is surprising us with a breakthrough, scientists have begun studying how they occur.
As long as more devices and carriers come onboard, though, the technology might be the long-term key to pulling us away from fenced-off conversations in Google Talk or Skype.
For now it seems as if the status quo will continue, though, any internet treaty coming out of the UN would likely face stiff opposition from the US, even without the content-related language.
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Now even though the analogy is bogus, it is symptomatic of the problem that is keeping us from addressing the real problems causing the economic woes of today.
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Don't count on taking the eStark onto the freeway anytime soon, though -- the high cost of US safety certifications will likely keep this one away from city streets.
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The longer term solution would be to develop an appropriate social contract: conducting ourselves online under the same civilized behavioral norms that keep us from, say, stealing stuff from one another's homes even though we could probably get away with it.
The free-market economist and then Federal Reserve Chairman, Alan Greenspan, supported that massive US-IMF rescue package for Mexico, even though he had previously warned that protecting investors from the consequences of their mistakes would build up problems for the future, by encouraging institutions and investors to take excessive risks.
Even though my father left us when I was two years old, and I only knew him from the letters he wrote and the stories that my family told, I was luckier than most.
We discovered elected leaders and policymakers were eager to hear from us and get our feedback, even though eBay was still a small start-up as opposed to the big corporation it is today, and our suggested language was inserted in the bill that passed.
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