If the museum does decide to repatriate the object, it will be as a sign of good will, according to Tim Schadla-Hall, a Reader in Public Archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology at University College London.

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In this world where every object was thrown away at the slightest sign of breakage or aging, at the first dent or stain, and replaced with a new and perfect substitute, there was just one false note, one shadow: the moon.

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Markets took her comments as a sign that the US will not publicly object to the new Japanese government's aggressive push for easier monetary policy, during which some officials have made explicit references to the yen.

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Newspapers are full of unnamed GOP sources talking about how the leadership might sign on to (or at least not object to) such ideas as ending some ethanol subsidies or changing the way business inventories are taxed.

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Others object, more reasonably, that America's economy is in sound shape: with no sign of inflation, there are no grounds for the Fed to act.

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