America was much more divided then, although some may find that difficult to believe.

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The drug certainly seems to work in at least some patients, although it is difficult to predict who will benefit.

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However, the transition was difficult, and although some countries like the Czech Republic and Slovenia were able to overcome the early years of transition, becoming the prosperous democracies that they are now, some others eventually adopted new types of autocracies.

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