Possible alternatives include ending the requirement to have nuclear weapons on submarines at sea round-the-clock, or using different submarines and cruise missiles.

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Leaving them unresolved may be the most hopeful ending possible.

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Both parties agree on the need to change the constitution as a possible means of ending the war, and both accept that Sri Lanka must continue to be a liberalised economy.

BBC: Sri Lanka's parties offer little choice

No grand bargains or conflict-ending agreements are possible now with the mullahs or between Israelis and Palestinians.

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So that the next person who was given the same chilling diagnosis could hopefully find my story and rest assured that a happy ending was indeed possible.

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You need full control of your core technology, so I suggest you supplement your own expertise as soon as possible, to tackle the never-ending technical questions of architecture, competition, scalability, and customer support.

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Furthermore, if HBO broke away from cable they would have to do so by ending lucrative contracts with the cable industry that make their business model possible.

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The Dow dropped 300 points and believing the rally was finally ending investors rushed to the exits hoping to hang onto as much profit as possible.

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Ending a national currency and an exchange rate means that an exchange-rate crisis is not possible.

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"Those common principles allow us to effectively work together, " he said, responding to the never-ending speculation about which one of the duo is more important and whether a rift between them is possible.

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