Viewers come away with a sense of Afghanistan's long history as a battleground for foreign interests and rival powers.

离场时，观众对阿富汗悠久的历史有一种认知：阿富汗成为国外利益集团竞相追逐，竞争对手之间相互争斗的战场。

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Unlike the two rival foreign standards, TD-SCDMA has yet to be commercially deployed.

TD - SCDMA与这两个国外标准不同，它还未进入商业运营阶段。

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In Korea, they say, businesses bought the foreign-exchange contracts from multiple sources, without disclosing positions to rival Banks.

他们说，韩国企业从多种渠道买进外汇合约，而没有向对手银行透露这些头寸。

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Campaigning officially began Saturday in the runoff election between incumbent President Hamid Karzai and top rival, former Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah.

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Clinton,in a talk with reporters here, said she has been involved in intensive telephone diplomacy with President Karzai and his main election rival, former Afghan foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah, and is encouraged by what she has heard from the parties.

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In fact, his agency developed very clever means to gain access to facilities, especially embassies and foreign offices that would rival anything we have today.

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Mr Fazio rang Mr Fiorani shortly after midnight, one night in July, to tell him he had just signed a document approving BPI's plan to take a majority stake in Antonveneta, thereby (it seemed at the time) scuppering the rival, foreign bid.

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But when, on Tuesday, Mr Sharon publicly re-offered his rival the foreign ministry for the coming three months, Mr Netanyahu surprised him by accepting the job, while insisting that he would not change his plans to fight Mr Sharon for the Likud leadership.

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