But as in all neglected love affairs, the two have been growing apart.
We have a structural deficit that is real and growing, apart from the financial crisis.
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Eyjafjallajokull, in Iceland, which erupted in April, stopping commercial flights over the Atlantic and Europe for a week, is at a junction where the plates are growing and moving apart, as magma wells up from deep in the Earth.
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When I was a kid growing up I took apart radios and locks to figure out how they worked.
Recall that Kraft Foods executed a spin-off last year to allow its slow-growing North American grocery business to live apart (keeping the Kraft name) form its faster-growing international snack unit (later called Mondelez International).
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The result is one of the most addicting debuts about the savage love of all our families, and the necessary ways its members are torn apart in the painstaking process of growing up.
Foreign food companies apart from coffee brands are also noticing a growing propensity among India's middle class to eat out and spend on beverages and processed foods.
Apart from higher interest rates, anecdotal evidence that Chinese banks are tightening credit is growing.
Apart from the BASF potato, there is only one other GM crop approved for commercial growing in the EU - a strain of maize developed by Monsanto called MON810.
Mr Bennett's growing number of supporters however see him as a plain-talking realist - a dichotomy which shows how far apart the left and right in Israel still are.
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