Non-governmental commerce has so far seen nationalistic skirmishes, but nothing close to all-out war.
Via the Market Vectors Gold Miners ETF ( GDX), miners are close to all-time highs.
And last April, Sudan and South Sudan slipped close to all-out war in series of air and ground exchanges.
With operating margins close to all-time highs unless revenue growth can be generated I believe the second half earnings numbers will come down.
The two countries came close to all-out war over border disputes last year, and have since agreed to set up a buffer zone along the border.
It may not sound much on the face of things, but in Kashmir it is a landmark breakthrough between two nuclear armed countries that only a few years ago came close to all-out war.
The fact that interest rates are close to all-time lows and investors have piled into low yielding fixed income instruments the last several years, suggests to me that deflation is not a likely outcome.
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In April, Sudan and South Sudan slipped close to all-out war with a series of tit-for-tat air raids and ground attacks that prompted the African Union and Security Council to push the two sides to act.
Intervention has restrained the unit thus far, although the yen remains close to an all-time high.
The standout was the Dow Jones Transportation Average as it moved above the 2012 highs and is close to its all-time highs.
Soon after the split, tensions between the old foes escalated over outstanding issues, coming close to an all-out war in April.
Continental Europe is cheap, with a sector-adjusted price-to-earnings market valuation that is at a 30% discount to the U.S. That, Credit Suisse says, is very close to an all-time low.
The Dow Jones industrial average popped to a record level Tuesday morning, and kept the bulk of its gains even after some late selling, to climb back above its previous peak and close at an all-time high.
Earlier this month, the United States' Department of Agriculture seemed close to giving the all-clear.
However, it is unequivocally true that markedly improved Federal tax revenues, significant improvement in GDP growth, and close-to-record low unemployment (all of which we desperately want to see happen again) occurred despite an environment where tax rates were recently reduced.
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More than eight months after opening statements began, this real-life "who-done-it", lurches toward a close with short- tempers on all sides.
So you've got this idea of a very close-knit, cultural set of artists and architects, and musicians, photographers, writers, all forming quite a close-knit group of friends.
Tareq Ayoub was someone who was very hard-working, an extremely helpful colleague, and we have all had very close ties to Al-Jazeera, to our colleagues there.
The front facing camera now features 720p video for all your extreme close-ups.
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In May 2005, the body of a 44-year-old Florida man was found in Wyoming, close to a cabin, where his all-terrain vehicle had become mired.
Newcastle continued to have chances - Shola Ameobi, Alan Smith and Duff all coming close before the latter sealed his hat-trick in the closing stages with a delightfully curled shot past Lee-Barrett.
The open-source machine-maker has made Ubuntu PCs before, like the Gazelle and Serval laptops and the recent Sable Complete all-in-one, but none come close to the Bonobo Extreme in terms of speed and performance.
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That is the top 3% of taxpayers, including close to two-thirds of all small business income.
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United, American and US Airways all had lower availability close-in than they did in the regular advance-purchase test.
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By playing its hand close Boeing just might launch an all-new plane five years or so before that.
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By all means, close the so-called Enron loophole, which exempts from U.S. regulation energy speculators who make trades electronically.
The potato is as close as we get to an all-purpose food, one that on its own could feed you quite healthfully.
Aside from the euro, bosses' biggest beef is the government's decision, in May, to close all of Germany's nuclear-power stations by 2022.
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