Indeed, experience has shown that if the U.S. has options enabling it to proceed unilaterally, it will have a much greater chance of bringing other states along with it.

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Iwata also detailed a number of enhancements designed to make the Wii U game experience more social, even if people are not playing in the same room.

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If past experience is any guide, such agreements will impose significant constraints on U.S. abilities to introduce new military technologies.

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"This is recession territory, at least if the experience of 2001 is a guide, " said Ian Shepherdson, chief U.S. economist at High Frequency Economics.

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If Congress borrows from international experience, and acts decisively to reform postal policy, the venerable U.S. Postal Service can also emerge as a viable company in the Internet age.

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