Not content with that extraordinary achievement -- and not willing to trust in its permanence, Robert Krieble embarked on a heroic personal effort to consolidate freedom's victory by helping democracy and free enterprise take root throughout the former Soviet bloc.

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But neither statistics nor judicial evidence substantiate the theory that free trade is the root cause of the violence against women.

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For example, only the Free Democrats are championing the root-and-branch tax reform that Germany needs, but they would be part of the (numerically pitiful) opposition, if they make it into parliament at all.

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