But it is less powerful now, and it has lost a vital cog: the governorship is now in the hands of a Democrat.
Paulsen laughs about it now, but his sub lost contact with the surface for 90 minutes during the ascent.
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At the local authority-run Cardiff Dogs Home, manager Maria Bailie said she had not seen any parvovirus cases until towards the end of last year but had now lost seven dogs to it.
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But the way it is now structured may guarantee a lost opportunity instead.
But it lost a county council grant and now only runs one service a week.
"Nick Clegg won the trust and votes of young people and their parents by signing the pledge, but has now lost them once and for all by breaking it, " said Mr Burns.
Federal auditors suggested the project was illegal, but in any case it is now winding down and HHS is making up for lost time.
But while each of the previous cases seems almost lost to memory now, it is the national outpouring of outrage from people of all backgrounds in response to the Trayvon Martin case that could signal the difference between the last century and this one.
We were very confident of winning the case, but even if we had lost there would have been a certainty to it, now it just drags on.
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It is hard to know whether the media would have kept up their vigilant support for Operation Cast Lead if Kadima had won the elections, but now that Kadima has lost, and Likud leader Binyamin Netanyahu is forming the government, it is clear that the media no longer feel it is necessary to support the IDF.
The bank is otherwise well run, with a conservative approach to funding that has served it well, but it has lost more to date than the likes of Royal Bank of Scotland, now largely in the hands of the state, and JPMorgan Chase, which has far more exposure to both America and investment banking.
But he knows that because he lost the race, it's hard to tell the GOP to listen now to what he has to say about how to improve the party's message.
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