No matter what one thinks of punk music and its "no future" ideology, the movement was adept and imaginative when it came to clothes.
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Whatever one thinks of Romney the candidate, what his political opponents said about his business career brought new meaning to dirty politics.
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Inevitably, one looks in the mirror afterward and thinks, What have I lost?
One wonders what the former capital of Asia, Tokyo, thinks about all this.
Nevertheless, if you like looking in the rearview mirror and care what the clients of one of the biggest investment banks in the world thinks about the market, then it might be interesting to note that 17% of their investors said they were running greater than normal exposure to risk compared to 10% in December.
No one thinks China is going to make drastic changes to what is a signature national programme. (And one from which it hopes to spin off lucrative contracts building railways in Algeria, Iran, Russia, Kazakhstan and elsewhere.) But it might postpone some of the dizzier schemes, such as one to build a freight line across mountainous northern Colombia to rival the Panama canal.
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Yet beyond these soundbites, little is still known about what the man who might be the next Pentagon chief really thinks about one of the most pressing strategic challenges confronting the United States.
It's this embracing of what is one of the biggest growth industries in the developed world that Nicola Wilson thinks will give Craigavon's economy a much-needed boost.
One thing to watch for: possible new numbers on what the Congressional Budget Office thinks of Sen.
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Similarly, one camp maintains that temperatures are rising dramatically with unspeakable portents, while the other thinks what has happened is entirely a result of undefined internal oscillations in the earth-sun climate system, and that there is virtually no human component to climate change.
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Mr Powell is the only one of the three whose job routinely requires him to take notice of what the rest of the world thinks about America's emerging policies.
There you have it: What seemed absurd to the point of parody a decade ago is now so plausible that no one but me even thinks to question it.
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