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NWFP's assembly and a member of the Awami National Party, would leave only four powers with the federal government: foreign affairs, defence, international communications and the currency.
ECONOMIST: Is Pakistan living at the edge of disaster?
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With Germany divided and the cold war still being waged, France, both as a nuclear-armed ally and as one of the four powers occupying Germany, had a special leverage over the government in Bonn.
ECONOMIST: The Franco-German axis creaks
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Since the four dominant powers of America, Canada, Europe and Japan (the so-called Quad) failed to show leadership at the trade summit in Seattle in late 1999, Mr Stern wants to see a new group of developing economies blaze a trail in multilateral issues.
ECONOMIST: The World Bank