Israel is like a coiled spring of enterprise waiting for its corrupting political system to stop suppressing it.

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The Japanese economy is a coiled spring, wrapped forever tighter over a generation.

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In a sense, the market often acts like a coiled spring.

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With the right investment-side rather than handout policy, the economy will act like a coiled spring or a super ball the rebound will be a huge bounce.

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"We had to find some new outlet for our energy, for our dynamic nature, for this coiled spring that was the United States, " he explains about America in the 1890s.

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The driving force is a simple coiled spring.

UNESCO: Culture