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Players were then able to live through the most important battles of the wars in the Middle East.
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Even in 2005, government spending on these means tested welfare programs was 25% more than was spent on national defense, and that was at the height of the wars in the Middle East.
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The arrival of President George W. Bush heralded both a reversal of the hollowing out of the military, along with wars in the Middle East, resulting in a temporary decline in the ratio of health to defense spending during most of his term.
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Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on the assumption that he would be the president who got the United States out of the wars in the greater Middle East that had cause so much dissent during the Bush presidency.
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There are predictions that countries such as India, China, and parts of the Middle East will run out of water and that wars will break out over supplies.
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We seek true peace, not just a pause between more wars and intifadas, but a permanent reconciliation among the peoples of the Middle East.
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Since the 1970s, through oil shocks, Middle East wars, terrorist attacks and disease outbreaks, the number of passenger-miles flown seems always to have snapped back to its long-term growth trend (see chart 1).
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It is a venue which has welcomed countless political leaders and business executives, during internet booms and banking busts, in the midst of a Middle East crisis and even during the lead up to two Gulf Wars.
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