Then, at the very last moment, they insisted that SDI be effectively abandoned.

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Then officials changed their minds at the very last moment, so my family and our neighbors were not plunged into darkness.

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Yesterday I met with the bereaved family of Taylor Anderson, who unfortunately passed away, but who took care of children until the very last moment following the Great East Japan Earthquake.

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Tlas saved himself at the very last moment.

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Federal Reserve Treasury purchases started picking up pace in August of last year, at the very moment Ben Bernanke signaled in his annual Jackson Hole address that QE2 was on the way.

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So my question is: What is being done at the moment to prevent the kind of nail-biting that we saw last week with the very last-minute deal being brokered on the debt ceiling, given the magnitude, as you described it, of not raising it?

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