If you exchange the words Egyptian-cotton industry with European Aerospace-lobbying industry in Heller's passage above, you would have a good summation of how EADS has been trying to justify its activities and market itself to the American public.

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So too is the hope that the North-East Passage above Russia, also known as the Northern Sea Route (NSR), as well as the North-West Passage from the Atlantic over the top of North America, will become navigable for several months each summer.

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The passage quoted above is not the only time Barclays referred in the past to non-financial or values-based performance targets.

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To read the above passage in isolation is to perhaps glean from it uncertainty on the part of Fellowes about the good or bad of disruptive economic change, but to read the novel in full is to see that Fellowes sides with Schumpeter.

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An aide said Mr. Cuomo has been focused above all in recent months on the passage of a new state budget and tougher gun-control laws in the wake of the school shooting in Newtown, Conn.

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The storm boiled above the Indian ocean, a dark, bristling wall of cloud, blocking our passage west.

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