There is a good chance the Obama campaign is about to disintegrate, if only briefly.

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When Belarus's leader, Alyaksandr Lukashenka, irked the Kremlin in 2004 Russia turned off the taps, if only briefly.

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If only briefly, we were part of the history of this extremely rare book very early in our careers.

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France's continuing nuclear tests in the South Pacific have turned the international spotlight, if only briefly, on Tahiti and the other islands in French Polynesia.

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However, for many the definitive Nine Inch Nails experience remains bellowing the chorus of Head Like a Hole, surrounded by a crowd doing exactly the same thing, and realizing that nerds could be jocks, too, if only briefly.

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Their performance seemed to remind everyone, if only too briefly, that Dr. Seuss's ultimate message is to seek out the fun in life.

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This amounts to a tax on capital inflows, and the effective tax rate becomes very high if the money remains in the country only briefly.

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