For that matter, the whole American project has more than a touch of the apocalypse about it.
That is not how the whole American dream thing is suppose to work.
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So when reporters and business people talk, their interviews can end up giving the whole American enterprise a little nudge one way or another.
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His decision-making may have prematurely ended the mission, but it saved his life, co-pilot David Scott's life, and possibly the whole American space program.
The dolls have been around for over 25 years (originally sold by mail order) but now, as a subsidiary of Mattel, you can have the whole American Girl experience by walking into any number of mall stores in the country.
It was as though the contest between Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich were the whole of American politics.
Mr Santelli's televised rant against bail-outs has gone down in history as the birth harangue of the tea-party movement, which went on in double-quick time to capture the Republican Party and yank the whole of American politics sharply to the right.
And through the whole course of American history, there always have been scandals.
Throughout a whole century the American people stood liberty's ground not just in one world war but in two.
Dan Plesch of the Royal United Services Institute believes the whole British and American approach to military intervention is blunt and far too crisis-driven.
What happened was outer space became this frontier that was really just an extension of the west and this whole idea of American expansion.
On the contrary, he blames the whole thrust of American exceptionalism.
They argue that it is good for the whole of the American economy because when we increase the pay of some 28 million Americans, we put more money into the pockets of these workers who will spend that money in the U.S. economy.
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And policies are by no means the whole story of an American election: character and leadership matter greatly, too.
The whole spectacle is uniquely American (bleachers for viewing, limos, open bars), a vehicle for dreaming and seeking cues about how to dress and carry ourselves.
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Low-earning groups tend to spend more proportionally on shelter than top earners, but on the whole, the average American household spends about one third of their yearly budget on the roof over their heads.
When viewed as a whole they explain why Latin American states are lining up to support the Palestinians.
The biggest threat to such areas, and to the state's economy as a whole, comes from the American consumer.
What teetered in the balance that week was not only the whole fabric of Russian-American relations since the cold war, but the principle of democratic control over Russia's army.
We just weren't the people being interviewed, and that whole ideal that African-American women and women of color have a healthier body image was pushed for so long with no one coming back to ask us.
He says only General Electric would be large enough to swallow American Water Works whole, but companies like GE, ITT Industries and 3M have not shown previous interest in water utility assets, preferring to stick to water industrial assets--e.g. filtration, desalination and instrumentation markets.
We have a whole chapter on strengthening the American labor force, because that's where we certainly talk about, certainly in terms of this recession, the degree to which different demographic groups -- young people, blacks and African Americans -- all that have seen higher unemployment rates relative to the average.
And the fee would be in place until the American taxpayer is made whole.
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As more and more Americans became de facto criminals, the American population as a whole became increasingly paranoid.
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American industry as a whole operated at 82.4% of full capacity, 1.4 percentage points above its long-run average.
Is the boom in entrepreneurship good for the American economy as a whole?
For the American economy as a whole, that is probably a good thing.
Given this environment, the American army as a whole has responded extremely well.
Conversely, the downside for shares in Citigroup, indeed in American banks as a whole, looks far greater than the upside.
How can we reframe the debate and really highlight the respectful and sportsmanlike nature of policies directed at benefiting the American people as a whole?
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