Making matters worse, they had started, before the shutdown, to turn on one another.

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Clinton admitted that the deepening impact of the financial meltdown, which is dominating the agenda at this year's meeting in Davos, had left many people frightened -- but said the global scale of the crisis proved that the world's nations could no longer afford to turn their backs on one another.

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The terms under which Fred Wilpon and his company, Sterling Equities are negotiating a settlement with Irving Picard, the man seeking compensation for the Madoff victims, will likely turn one way or another based on the degree to which Picard can show that Wilpon or his people sensed any trouble with the fund before getting out.

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Still, toward the end of his mayoralty, one community after another seemed to turn on him.

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So how could a government agency then turn around and say: spending on one thing displaces spending on another?

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Long ago, the first traveller who stumbled into the cavern deceived the next one, who in turn deceived another traveller, and so on.

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Ariel Castro lost his job as a school-bus driver last fall for what Cleveland's school district called several demonstrations "of lack of judgment, " including one of leaving a child on a bus and another of making an illegal U-turn, according to records.

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