Chemical weapons appeal to potential aggressors because small quantities that could be stored in a single warehouse of moderate size-could hamstring an enemy in its efforts to mobilize, receive reinforcements, maintain air-sortie rates, and the like.

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Prior to that, in the early 1900s, many moderate-size cities had their own stock exchanges.

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Moreover, he weakened its supporters both in the US capital and throughout the world by effectively accepting the lie that Israel itself is responsible for the radicalization of the Arab and Islamic worlds and that only by cutting it down to size will the West be able to moderate the behavior of jihadists from Teheran to Karachi to Baghdad to London.

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Ben Nelson of Nebraska, a moderate Democrat whom the Republicans have been actively courting, would mean the White House would have to start negotiating the size and scope of the tax cut, something the Bush team did not want to do this early in the budget process.

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