Any significant shift in that balance could profoundly alter the course of Japan's foreign policy.

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Allowing both workers and retirees to have health savings accounts would profoundly and fundamentally alter the dynamics of health care economics.

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The economic and political aftershocks extending around the globe will profoundly shake and alter broad aspects of U.S. and international policy far into the future, and particularly those related to energy strategies.

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