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Citing its own troubled balance sheet, a rundown physical plant and a desire to retool its mission, last week Washington's Corcoran Gallery of Art announced plans to explore the sale of its 19th-century building and move to a purpose-built facility elsewhere in Washington, or even in Maryland or Virginia.
WSJ: Corcoran Gallery of Art | Another Museum Mulls Pulling Up Stakes | By Eric Gibson
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But the popular desire to preserve the physical remains of the wall has run up against the economic realities of the cash-strapped city's need to develop long-barren areas of the capital, including the so-called death strip where many people trying to flee East Germany lost their livesdied.
WSJ: In Berlin, Wall Divides Developers, Protesters
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One is that the relationships people are forming online can be real and powerful, and their desire to bridge the gap between the physical and digital worlds becomes stronger as more of these online relationships proliferate.
FORBES: Running App Blurs the Digital Line with In-Person Meetups
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The public also has shown the desire for the tradition to cease, both because of the physical harm to the bridge and because many view the locks as an eyesore.
BBC: Paris to tourists: Stop locking down love
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While consumers do desire to buy, the companies to offer, the sort of physical goods deals that cannot be long term offerings for they cannot support that discounts demanded.
FORBES: Beware Groupon
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At a time when more top athletes across sports have the desire and the means to stay in prime physical condition, baseball players have joined NFL linemen (and a few notable golfers) as the last bastions of unapologetic girth.
WSJ: Will Cholesterol Kill Baseball? What Happens If CC Sabathia, Albert Pujols and Prince Fielder Don't Stop Eating?
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Whether due to his alleged corruption, his physical enfeeblement, his fear of the State Department, or his long-held and ardent desire to be accepted by the Left, Sharon betrayed his voters and his party and he undermined Israel's ability to move beyond failure.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: A low and dishonest decade