• Kennan was attracted to the discipline this demanded, but it was a cause of endless frustration.

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  • At times like this it was a cause of concern to me that Walter's friends made so much noise.

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  • But whatever, or whoever was the cause of this crash, it will take a long time to convince Nigerians that their notoriously unsafe aviation industry is being made safe.

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  • Well the underlying cause of this mess is the same as it was in the banking crash and Great Recession of 2007-9 - which is the recycling of the great surpluses of the exporting nations, China, Germany and Japan, into the unsustainable debts of the great consuming nations, the US, UK, and much of the eurozone.

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  • "Nothing in Iraq seemed to be going well, and there was this need to find somebody who could demonstrate that it was not a completely lost cause, " says Bacevich.

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  • Mr. BENOIT: Everybody's been talking about this is south Louisiana, and for it to be sprung up on everybody like it was a big surprise, it just kills me, you know, 'cause I know that this was not a surprise.

    NPR: Tab Benoit: 'Voice of the Wetlands'

  • So that was -- I think folks from either team who missed out on lunch will go a little hungry this afternoon, but it was for a greater cause.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • Tony Stammers, the Health and Safety Officer for the trust, also said they could not put up a fence, as this could cause problems of flooding, if debris was caught in it.

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  • Indeed, it can be argued that this was the cause of the weak corporate governance that contributed mightily to the spectacular business failures of recent years, both on Main Street and Wall Street.

    ECONOMIST: A glimmer of hope for corporate-governance reform

  • If it was invested inside the nation, this would cause distortions like massive inflation.

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  • The original amount was already low, so this should be cause for concern, but it should also incentivize providers to focus on productivity.

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  • The recession may have boosted this trend, he says, but it was not its primary cause.

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  • "We owe it to the public to find out what was the cause of this, " Mioduszewski said Friday.

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  • He pointed out that only interim relief was being sought at this stage, and that granting it would cause minimal disruption to Facebook.

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  • But it is certainly time to disengage from the lost cause this great country once was and start putting together a personal Plan B.

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  • And you mentioned -- there are just some terrific members of Congress who took really tough votes because they thought it was the right thing, even though they knew this could cause them political problems, and even though a lot of them came from really tough swing districts or majority-Republican districts.

    WHITEHOUSE: Presidential Press Conference

  • Although this was a widespread outage, neither the cause nor the recovery time should be used to compare it with a deliberate, well coordinated terrorist attack on the electrical transmission system.

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  • It is alleged that the Buffalo Grill chain continued serving beef from Britain after it was banned in the European Union and that this may have been the cause of cases of the human form of mad cow disease (BSE), known as variant CJD.

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  • But Mr Bush, and perhaps his pugnacious ambassador too, seem to have been persuaded that the anger this would cause among Democrats, with whom Mr Bush is now obliged to work, was just not worth it.

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  • Mr. MUKWAZHI: I haven't seen any form of aid, you know, in terms of--but, you know, it's interesting that you ask this question, you know, 'cause as I was taking pictures this afternoon, they were all crying for help.

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  • ' It was: 'How can we spin this in such a way that it doesn't cause problems for the White House by conveying the impression that we're acknowledging the seriousness of the global warming problem?

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