India enjoyed a perfect start to the day, advancing a solid overnight position of 311-5 to a virtually impregnable one of 422-5 soon after lunch.

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Certainly, given how poorly Mitt Romney has been doing at a time when the state of the economy should have handed him an impregnable lead, it is clear that the Republican party is going through a historic life crisis.

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Its once impregnable popularity increasingly under pressure on other fronts, a long housing recession is the last thing it needs.

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In Europe, insiders have permanent jobs with nigh-impregnable security, high wages, guaranteed pensions and a still generous welfare state that they know how to exploit.

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It's not far-fetched to think that hundreds of millions of gallons of fuel a year and hundreds of lives could be saved by miniature, impregnable nuclear reactors that could be remote-detonated by satellite if they ever fell into enemy hands.

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They feel executive mayors, voted into office for an impregnable five year term with powers to enforce policies which bypass the traditional council, are a bad idea.

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