Nobody can credibly blame Bush for the failure to reach that goal, the conflict in the Mideast is far too complex to claim that one man is solely responsible for the stalemate of the last few years.

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One New York City woman says she's planning to move her entire family to a smaller town in Arizona this spring, with a goal of reducing tensions and conflict in her environment.

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Nor will it rise much again, since any new property bubble would conflict with another government goal: to turn Hong Kong into Asia's undisputed regional business centre.

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The goal has to be an end to conflict.

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Intel's goal is to demonstrate that its microprocessors are validated as conflict-free for tantalum by the end of 2012, and to manufacture the world's first microprocessor fully validated as conflict-free across all four minerals (gold, tantalum, tin and tungsten) by the end of 2013.

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In addition, it will prevent the election of unions where monopoly power (and the management conflict that comes with it) is not the goal, but rather worker voice is.

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This shift to the CIA in Iraq also is in line with the Obama administration's goal of limiting the U.S. role in the Syrian conflict.

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Officials say the goal of the U.S. policy is still for refugees to return home when the conflict in Yugoslavia ends.

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