China's offer of money to help sort out South-East Asia's financial problems was a first and one that people in the region have begun to contrast, however mistakenly, with what they see as America's aloofness from their problems.

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Both were McDonald's lifers known for their aloofness from the franchise set.

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True, the court's dignity has come at the price of its staggeringly anachronistic aloofness.

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