Deflation became the mortal enemy as people removed their cash from banks and hoarded it.

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We need to understand that class warfare is a mortal enemy of economic growth and jobs.

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America arguably has no more mortal enemy than the Muslim Brotherhood (MB or Ikhwan in Arabic).

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It was founded on a belief that Hindu India is Pakistan's mortal enemy, and on an ambition to drive India from Kashmir.

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Excess inventories are the mortal enemy of prices, and I count 1.9 million vacant houses over and above the normal working level.

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Although Israelis are prepared to endure hardships to remove this mortal enemy, they have spent more than two weeks under fire with little to show for it.

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They see their security interests threatened by an independent Afghanistan in part because they think it will ally itself to India, and Pakistan still considers India their mortal enemy.

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Incessant, morbid portrayals of an individual, movement, or nation as a mortal enemy might rally support for the American side, but they have a shelf-life that gets tired as the conflict stretches out.

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The popular unrest that has swept Iran since the country's fraudulent June 12 presidential election has showcased widespread chants of "Death to Russia, " making it clear that in the eyes of Iran's opposition, Moscow's steadfast partnership with the current clerical regime has made it a mortal enemy.

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