Because of this, a bidding war among aggressive investors can leave individual homebuyers on the sidelines.

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Would he act like the cautious realist, who warned against sending U.S. Marines to Beirut in the early 1980s or the aggressive idealist who championed the Iraq war two decades later?

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China recently signalled it would be taking a more imaginative and aggressive approach to how it invests its war chest, including buying significant holdings in overseas companies.

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The rest of the world is equally anxious about the current stand-off over Iraq, the crisis caused by North Korea's newly aggressive stand on nuclear weapons, and the war on terrorism.

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His influences were varied and included the German artist Otto Dix, famed for his aggressive approach to colour, perspective and depicting characters affected by war.

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Indeed one might even be forgiven for thinking a truly radical thought: that Barack Obama, a president who, recall, fought a non-war-war in Libya without Congressional authorization, is vulnerable to criticism because his foreign policies have been too aggressive.

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