The one thing that's quite clear there is that while whatever differences remain and there are many, there is very little disposition to return to the full scale conflict of the troubles and except for a small minority on both sides and most people have seen the benefits of peace and relative, I emphasise, relative calm.

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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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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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If venture is going to return to the cottage industry it once was, the LPs will have to scale back their investments.

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Both Republicans and Democrats have admitted that any economic stimulus plan of this scale will mean a return to deficit spending.

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Although the proposals did not have the imprimatur of the full commission, they provided a reasonable compendium of program cuts and revenue increases that highlighted the scale of changes required to return Washington to fiscal sanity.

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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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"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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