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Public support for American foreign policy has become most tepid in the former Austro-Hungarian parts of Europe, including Slovenia, Croatia, Slovakia and the Czech Republic, where German influence is increasing.
ECONOMIST: Feelings about the United States are warm but changing
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And there are serious financial problems still to be resolved including on-going sovereign debt issues in Europe, the budgetary mess in Washington, continued weakness in American residential housing, and a seriously overextended U.S. commercial real estate sector.
FORBES: The outlook for 2011
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But once the FAA in the early 1990s granted airline operators permission to use it on over-water routes, carriers including American, Northwest, US Airways and Continental found the 757 a fuel-effective way to serve cities in Western Europe that had previously been reached with larger, more costly wide-body planes that consume more fuel but have greater range.
WSJ: Nonstop Flights Stop for Fuel