Middleton offers five possible solutions to the piracy plague, including organizing shipping into a safe lane, providing a coast guard for Somalia, having a large international naval presence and refusing to pay ransoms.

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Not just the goodwill that accrues during a crisis because you happen to employ 40, 000 or so natives (not counting dealerships), the company has, perforce, also learned how to bridge the cultural synapses that plague other companies, including Boeing, in their relationships with foreign suppliers.

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The Iraqi capital's plague of violence continued Tuesday with at least three killings, including that of a judge, authorities said.

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