No one expects a return to full-scale violence, but a dangerous political vacuum would be created.

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The appetite in Washington for a full-scale return to Middle East peace-making may be limited.

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There are monarchists who are arguing for a full-scale return to the old regime and the party-less Panchayat system, in which the king exercised absolute power through village, district and national councils.

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BAAM's seeding fund, which invests in start-up hedge-fund managers in return for a share of their profits, is likely to benefit as banks scale back, for example.

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Religious yearning was practically separated from political possibility, and it was not until the 19th century that a large-scale Jewish return to the land and to Jerusalem was realized.

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Some Kashmiris darkly hint of picking up guns again, but the local leaders have no appetite for large-scale violence, fearful of a return to the carnage of the 1990s when thousands died each year.

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"If we had a whiff of a return to pre-Keynesian finance we could end up with a crisis that mirrors the scale of the great depression, " he says.

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