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• I have always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.

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  Country, Between You And Me

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• Contagion has become very much a phenomenon, and it's a phenomenon of globalization.

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  Globalization, Contagion, Phenomenon

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• Takeovers wouldn't cause the stock market to rise unless there is an upward reassessment of earnings (potential). People are more optimistic and confident about the future.

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  Optimistic, People, Earning

  "Raiding Can Be Seen As Wake-Up Call For Corporate America". The Seattle Times, August 16, 1987.

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• In politics, as in poetry, it is sometimes true that it is darkest before dawn.

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  Dawn, Politics, Sometimes

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• The major challenge for the United States is whether it can become the first outward-looking, continental, nonimperialist power in history.

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  Challenges, United States, Firsts

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• Where countries have been able to carry through on their reform commitments - as in Korea, Thailand and the Philippines - results are starting to come in the form of lower interest rates, new investment and increased growth.

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  Country, Commitment, Korea

  "Clinton's Capitulation on China". The Washington Post, April 12, 1999.

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• Start with the idea that you can't repeal the laws of economics. Even if they are inconvenient.

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  Law, Ideas, Economics

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• It certainly was difficult to sell NAFTA because it's always difficult to sell open markets.

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  Difficult, Nafta, Sells

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• As long as we keep our fundamentals strong...the dollar (and) U.S. borrowing costs will do just fine.

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  Strong, Long, Dollars

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• With uncertainty in oil markets, a buildup of speculative pressures and the large U.S. current account deficit, there is a real possibility that Paulson's crisis-management skills will be tested.

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  Real, Oil, Management Skills

  "Watching the Yellow Flags" by David Ignatius, www.washingtonpost.com. May 31, 2006.

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• The dramatic modernization of the Asian economies ranks alongside the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution as one of the most important developments in economic history.

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  Important, Economic History, Asian

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• Blaming speculators as a response to financial crisis goes back at least to the Greeks. It's almost always the wrong response.

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  Greek, Investing, Blame

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• You can't have a situation in which companies proceed on a permanent basis relying only on cash from the government.

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  Government, Cash, Situation

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• It says something about this new global economy that USA Today now reports every morning on the day's events in Asian markets.

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  Morning, Usa, New Day

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• It was wrong to allow Stalin to shape the European landscape of the 20th century. It would be even more wrong to let him shape the landscape of the 21st century

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  Europe, Would Be, Shapes

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• We must recognise that in an integrated world, trade cannot be divorced from other concerns. We need to promote free trade and serious global efforts with respect to common problems even as we support every nation's right to chart its own course.

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  Support, Effort, Needs

  "China trade vote a key test, says Summers". The Straits Times, February 01, 2000.

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• I promise you that there are a lot of people involved in various kinds of retail activities who think they have a crucial role in the economy, and they're right.

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  Thinking, People, Promise

  "Inside the Crisis" by Ryan Lizza, www.newyorker.com. October 12, 2009.

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• The United States basically accepted protection abroad as the price of post-war recovery. Now, that these countries have caught up to our level of prosperity, it is time for them to catch up to our level of openness.

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  Country, War, Recovery

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