Germany also rattled the markets and its partners by introducing a unilateral ten-month ban on naked short-selling (when securities are sold that are not owned or borrowed, which is the practice in conventional short-selling).

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McLaren surprised everyone by running with a conventional rear wing in first practice as opposed to a shallower, lower model more suited to Monza's low-downforce track.

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The only way to discover whether they will arise in real life, or whether they will be any more damaging than similar risks posed by conventional crops and farming practice, is to do more research in the field.

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Given the power of Japan's entrenched construction industry, and the difficulty of pressing even the mildest of conventional reforms, such a shift of resources would be nearly impossible to pull off in practice.

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