There were constant problems keeping the track in proper condition to race.

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Apart from anything else, if the Fed's and the Bank of England's policies of keeping money cheaper than it has ever been hasn't returned the US and UK to better-than-anaemic growth in the past three years, it is questionable whether it will be a sufficient condition for proper recovery in the next two years.

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The turn toward secular subjects of Dutch culture in the Golden Age was a lucky result of Calvinism, which banished most art from churches while tolerating it in daily life, on the condition that it illustrate proper morality.

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