So, the question is not what would cause Europe to break up, but rather what would cause it to hold together.

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But it takes hundreds of thousands of pounds of the stuff to hold together even a small city--most of it laboriously buried beneath the streets.

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Sadly, we forgot our rubber mallet at home so we couldn't try to beat it to pieces but we did appreciate the housing on the CAT phone it's surprisingly nice to hold and well put together.

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The Japanese government has been able to hold things together, but only by over-doing it itself.

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The Nomura-Lehman hybrid may be able to hold together for a year or two, but ultimately it's doomed, says Edwin Merner, manager of Atlantis Japan Growth Fund, who has spent more than two decades in Japan.

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But the things that divide the party are minuscule compared to the things that hold it together.

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