So then after that, I formed my own opinion based on, you know, both sides of the aisle, more or less in terms of what they were talking about with respect to the president's State of the Union speech.

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Supporting this view is the fact that new issuance in the junk-bond market has more or less ceased, regardless of the terms offered.

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So while Congress can't commandeer the states to do its bidding, it can offer them more or less any bargain it likes and states have the choice to voluntarily accept the terms or not.

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But with both remaining bits of Yugoslavia now more or less democratic, it will be much harder to negotiate new terms for their coexistence in a single state.

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Mr Ahtisaari's commission calls for carping European politicians to shut up, more or less, and stick to EU promises to judge Turkey's membership application purely in terms of compliance with EU rules and values.

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Then the recession hits, which means less money is coming in but more money is going out in terms of helping the unemployed or helping states and local governments not lay off teachers and firefighters and so on.

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