In no relationship at the top of any walk of life is it always easy, least of all in politics which matters so much and which is conducted in such a piercing spotlight.

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And the choice that the United States faces in all of these matters is whether to increase its capacity, to accept such energy from the most secure, most stable and friendliest location it can possibly get that energy, which is Canada, or from other places that are not as secure, stable or friendly to the interests and values of the United States.

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He agreed instead that all state institutions would observe religious dietary laws and that rabbinical law would prevail in matters such as marriage and divorce.

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Mr Miller, whose title has been modified to chief operating officer, will handle all practical matters such as building new schools and providing the necessary supplies (the lack of lavatory paper in some schools had become a symbol of the district's mismanagement).

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