If anything, one may wonder why the FCPA has not generated more debate and inspired more legislative challenges since it was first passed in 1977.

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All of which may make one wonder why Berlin is not booming already.

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So why, you may wonder, is our first one-day event in a gritty, depressed, financially-troubled city that seems well past its glory?

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It may be over-stating the case, but I wonder if the analysis above is one way to look at a phenomenon described in an article in the July 23 Nihon Keizai Shimbun, from which the graph at top is taken.

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Business people planning their taxes may well wonder: whatever this government wants, what about the next government, and the one after that?

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