King recently told the Los Angeles Times that while he had come to terms with his broader legacy, dealing with the past had not been easy.

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Indeed, even faced with declining congregations in terms of legacy, the Church does remain a power here.

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Indeed, the bipartisan deregulation movement of the 1970s and early 1980s that liberated trucking, airlines and telecommunications from choking regulation was a moment of reckoning, an attempt to come to terms, at last, with the legacy of progressive regulation.

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Far from preparing for the twenty-first century, much of the Arab and Muslim world appears to have difficulty in coming to terms with the nineteenth century, with its composite legacy of secularization, democracy, laissez faire economics, transnational industrial and commercial linkages, social change, and intellectual questioning.

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