And yet America's economy and political system is more resilient, and flexible, than Japan's and this should help it to avoid Japan's fate.
And it's all about fate and fortune and how that impacts our lives, and also the hushed quality after this enormous opening.
It is Rover's fate that will determine how Mr Pischetsrieder is judged.
It's a sad fate for a promising fuel, one that Washington, in a fit of political expedience, pronounced the savior of the roadways and smothered in subsidies.
It's a sad fate for an intelligent work which has won 14 international awards and has been screened around the world over the past two years without trouble.
It's not my fate or luckiness, but my boldness.
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On General Pulaski Memorial Day, we honor a hero who helped secure our country's fate when it was most fragile.
With 82 million visitors and 2.3 billion searches in a month, Google can try a new user interface or some other wrinkle on just 0.1% of its users and get massive feedback, letting it decide a project's fate in weeks.
He argues that it's tough inventing characters whose fate readers care about.
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Wherever it leads, the initiative is at least a change from a summer of threats and doom-and-gloom predictions of Quebec's fate if ever it goes its own way.
There's no way to know, and it's certainly premature to panic about Pixar's fate.
It's only a small flat, and by a cruel twist of fate is completely wheelchair friendly once you're in, it's just getting to the front door that's the problem.
The bank's fate now depends on how it survives April 30th which, coming between holidays, is usually the year's busiest day.
The Football Association has made it clear Capello alone will decide Terry's fate, and the duo are expected to meet on Friday.
Galileo's most remarkable discoveries, however, and the ones that dictated that it would eventually follow the probe's fiery fate, were made not about Jupiter itself, but (appropriately) about the four large Jovian moons discovered by Galileo Galilei, the 17th-century astronomer after whom the craft was named.
It's much more about that than about the fate of the soldiers, however important that is.
And now it turns out that, while the program's fate was being sealed in Congress, the administration deliberately sat on a study its own Department of Education completed weeks earlier.
Nor is it inconceivable that a similar fate awaits America's other stockmarket stars, such as Sandy Weill and Bernie Ebbers, whose failure could even shake investors' faith in the stockmarket.
The euro zone has faced many "moments of truth" but the Greek bondholder dispute is a a genuine watershed: The euro's fate lies in the balance and it could go either way.
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Whether that is true, and whether it drives people into Struhl's stores will determine the fate of the Fotobar.
The programme's fate thus hangs in the balance: it expired on September 30th, but Congress has authorised additional funding for the next six weeks.
In the end, though, the euro's fate rests with the American economy, and whether it really is slowing.
Allawi noted that the death penalty has been restored in Iraq, but said it was up to the Iraqi judicial system to decide Saddam's fate.
It's an ethical quandary and an economic one, about fairness and fate, about vanity and values.
It can only be a short journey (if that's not tempting fate) to his own TV series.
Any attorney worth his salt knows a client's fate frequently depends on the location of the courthouse deciding it.
The fortunes of Wall Street in particular have influenced the city's fate as a whole, not least through the taxes it pays.
Beyond the short-term speculative trading, market participants agree that it is the fate of the economy that will determine the market's long-term direction.
But it does not want to write off more than that until Iraq's economic fate becomes clearer.
Workers at Renault's car plant in Belgium have demonstrated at the European Commission against the closure of their factory, when it was their government's tax and social-security regime that sealed their fate.
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