Unocal studied the problem extensively and concluded that, with the exception of Colombia, rebels in war-torn countries rarely destroy key elements of the economic infrastructure.
Unocal studied the problem extensively and concluded that, with the exception of Colombia, rebels in war-torn countries don't destroy key elements of the economic infrastructure.
These key post-Cold War allies also saw it as a tangible expression of the U.S. commitment to their security in the face of assiduous Russian efforts to reassert a sphere of influence that would turn the clock back, reestablishing in some form their unhappy status under the Kremlin's thumb.
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The Arab League and the UN should play a key role in post-war Iraq.
"France acclaims the diplomatic efforts of Britain and the United States, which allowed this result to be achieved, " said Villepin, whose country spearheaded Western opposition to the U.S.-led war in Iraq in which Britain was a key ally.
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The arrest of the two Serbs -- General Djordje Djukic and Colonel Aleksa Krsmanovic -- raised a key issue: how to pursue war criminals while at the same time maintaining an environment in which all Bosnians can move around freely.
His swaggering style sets him apart from more low-key businesspeople who have emerged since the 1990s rebuilding of war-shattered Cambodia.
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The US gave huge financial backing to Mr Musharraf during his nine years as president as Pakistan became a key ally in Washington's so-called "war on terror".
Would the border region of Alsace-Lorraine, with its rich seams of coal, again be fought over as European nations struggled to control a key commodity, coal to produce electricity, needed for a war-making machine?
They say it is especially dangerous to do at a time when the Russians and other nuclear-capable allies are key coalition members in the U.S. war against terrorism.
Where after the war Attlee established the case for the NHS, state education and a welfare state, Thatcher, after the industrial wars of the 70s and the Cold War, won the arguments for a market-based economy, the private ownership of key industries and services, limits on trade union power and a strong defence policy based on the Atlantic Alliance.
Alexander Hamilton, the subject of this penetrating portrait, was in the thick of it all-from the agitation preceding the American Revolution, through the war itself (as a key staffer for George Washington and then as a courageous officer in the field), to the writing and adopting of the Constitution, to the rise of partisan politics.
Analysts point to President Robert Mugabe's decision to offer huge unbudgeted pay-outs to Zimbabwe's war veterans in 1997 - after they had protested at being "ignored" - as a key factor in the start of that country's economic collapse.
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