My basic point is that the past few decades, what is often called globalisation (often by the English, neoliberalism) has led to the largest reduction in poverty in the history of our species.
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In the office market in particular, things have gone awry at this stage of the property cycle so often in the past that it is hard to avoid cynicism.
To plan for the future, it is often helpful to understand the past.
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"It is not often understood that what happened in Asia in the past year is a reflection of what has happened to the yen, " says Richard Koo of Nomura Research Institute in Tokyo.
And the fact is, when standards like these have been proposed in the past, opponents have often warned that they would be an assault on business and free enterprise.
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One of the many things we noticed in our investigation is that in the past, assurances that certain chemicals are completely safe have often turned out to be false.
The ability to enumerate business losses is often difficult in privacy cases, which has made it difficult in the past for people to demonstrate they should receive monetary compensation.
Right or wrong, the reality for athletes is that winning often does take care of things and help people forget about the past.
Certainly, it resembles the fiscal policies that have so often got Venezuela into trouble in the past: spend like crazy when the oil price is high, and slam on the brakes when it plummets.
"African art is often treated as coming from before the colonial past, " said senior curator Julia Charlton.
But there is a reason for this: often in the past aid has failed, or at least has been understood to fail.
Though this is just one economic indicator, in the past these charts have often given us some good insight.
Unless you play on the highest difficulty setting, button-mashing is often enough to get past normal enemies.
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However, Valley entrepreneurs often look past this opportunity since the potential revenue per user is lower, even though the high unit volumes compensate, or it's hard to know the context and needs of large, remote populations.
Still, the number of Google Web searches by mainland-Chinese Internet users has risen over the past two years, said Mr. Alegre, who is based in Tokyo and often visits Beijing and Shanghai.
In dozens of studies over the past 20 years, Dr. Dainton has found people often say sharing too much is a source of relationship dissatisfaction.
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As for the British ambassador, the soft-spoken Sir Stephen Wall, he is close to John Major--but for the past two years this has often seemed something of a disadvantage.
One of the biggest problems, Schnierer and Berchem agree, is that former hiring managers are often unwilling to disclose the reason for a past employee's termination, creating holes in a background check.
Off the beaten track, this authentic pub hosts nightly sessions that often result in a closed door, that is, they go on long past the official closing time.
And Iscar is just the kind of firm that the homespun Mr Buffett understands and has often bought in the past: one built from scratch by the application of simple principles and honest hard work.
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In doing so it is on the wrong side of the economic cycle again, as it so often has been in the past, beginning to ease too late to prevent recessions, and then continuing to ease too long after recoveries are underway, creating bubbles.
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