Earlier this year, Putin accused the United States of increasing tension and violence around the world.
As economic tension around the world is showing few signs of abating, the Gold Trust Shares SPDR ( GLD) looks like a strong choice entering 2011.
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He is fascinated by what he believes to be a continuous tension between the world's need and appetite for collective governance on the one hand and, on the other, the desire of tribes and nations to think of themselves as independent and sovereign.
"We believe that such a step be not only in the interests of India but in the interests of reducing tension in the region and contributing to the world regime on non-proliferation, " Mr Cook said.
As Microsoft slowly leaves the legacy world behind in order to keep up with its rivals, a tension will be introduced into the market along a fault line I highlighted in a previous column: the x86-ARM divide, which falls at the bottom of the stack shown in the graphic at the top of the page.
And just as Matisse's paeans to the tension between the three-dimensional world and the flat canvas have been dismissed as "decorative" because of their glorious color and patterning, Veronese's lush figure groups have been similarly labeled, for similar reasons.
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This tension, between the force of the material world and the will of the imagination, lies at the centre of this book.
The tension between what's good for the online world (and the world at large) and what products can make money is at the heart of a lot of the festival's official programming.
Tension with Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, and the broader Muslim world makes investment in Israel by major energy companies a difficult decision.
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On the other hand, look at how after World War II the U.S. forced Germany and France to work together, alleviating tension by creating companies like Airbus where national interests would be so intertwined that a new war would be unthinkable.
This tension is far from resolved, and points to the need for greater efforts to balance the world community's important concern for subjects with a tendency toward exporting moral judgment along with research projects.
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