The risk is that failure to agree on a new wave of openness during a period (the past two years) in which the world economy has been growing at its fastest for three decades, with more countries sharing in that growth than ever before, will set a sour political note for what may well be tougher times ahead.

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The sharp polarization, combined with fear, between left and right that was a legacy of the fascist period of Mussolini from 1917 to 1943, returned first in the form of a huge wave of strikes in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and then in a deadly form of political violence.

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Surely somebody there must be aware that shutting down offshore drilling a space-age, technologically demanding exercise for an extended period of time cannot be restarted by just a wave of hand.

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James, 61, and Owen Roe McDermott, 52, were two of four brothers involved in what a judge described as a "tidal wave of abuse" stretching back over a 30-year period.

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