The high-tech industries of Costa Rica, the tigerish dynamism of Panama and the social democracy of Brazil all offer things that Cuba could emulate.

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As a tigerish negotiator, India was bound to seek solidarity with China just as some developed countries were bound to seek more and comparable anti-warming measures from them both.

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With her skin pallor verging on translucence, and a long, tigerish mane, she could be a Victorian dream of the untouchable, and you can picture Millais and Rossetti dropping their brushes at the sight of her.

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