In the face of continuing warfare in Cambodia, many Americans have chosen to turn away from the conflict there, viewing that unfortunate nation as a distant place of permanent pain.
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Our collapse in that distant place will greatly add to our own future peril from enemies abroad and at home determined not only to defeat us over there, but here, as well.
The second, the unchangeability bias, is the idea that when we face large decisions that seem to be immutable (getting married, having kids, moving to a distant place), the permanence of these decisions makes them seem even larger and more frightening.
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At the nation's heart is a tentatively beating, market-based economy, and keeping it alive puts every other goal--even mass atheism--in distant second place.
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Sony and Nintendo pretty much have it locked up now, but Sega Enterprises could come out of a distant third place to give them a serious challenge.
For BlackBerry to stake a claim on even a distant third place spot, it doesn't just have to finally measure up to Android and iOS, it has to convince those growing more tired every day that the waiting is finally over.
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Since launching its first console in 2001, Microsoft has sold 22m units worldwide, putting it in distant second place behind Sony's PlayStation 2 (which has sold 92m units since its launch in 2000) and just ahead of Nintendo's GameCube (which has sold around 19m units), according to figures from Forrester.
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Just like the film, the game takes place on a distant Federation outpost, Fort Casey, which comes under attack by bugs.
Present polls put her in distant third or even fourth place, with 16%-18% of the first-round vote, compared with 28% or so each for Mr Sarkozy and Mr Hollande.
Fred Funk and Matt Kuchar finished a distant eight shots back tied for second place at 11-under, with Kevin Sutherland, Brent Geiberger and David Gossett at 10-under.
In other words: sorry Zune fanboys, this is going to be a war of attrition, and while launch week numbers might foretell the Zune's place in the not too distant future, they shouldn't be used as hard and fast figures for today's split up of the market.
SEC's then chairwoman (and distant relative of Mr Estrada) and took her place.
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Huntsman edges out Ron Paul for third place, with Gingrich coming in at a distant second.
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Italy is the third-largest economy in the EU. Italian and Spanish bond yields are starting to creep higher again, which is an early clue that the EU debt crisis could be back on the front burner of the market place at some point in the not too distant future.
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They will ensure their place on mobile computing wich until now was very distant from reality for MS. That means a whole highway for MS to go by after almost getting stuck on pc systems and having not much succes on other atempts like Zune, Live, Bing, MySpace except for Xbox.
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No one at Karakol was sure when the next Pakistan-bound bus was due, but in the stillness of this place I heard it long before it appeared: a distant whine among silent mountains.
The right place to start is with a common vision not of some distant future but of the world we seek for our children and our grandchildren.
The researchers said that's because of Honolulu's place in the air transportation network: in the Pacific Ocean, with many connections to distant, large, and well-connected hubs.
Some, for example, were built at such a distant remove from the centres of commerce that villagers exhausted their daily earnings travelling to and from their place of work.
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