If you add the Palestinian revolt of 1936-39 and the war between Palestinian villagers and Jewish settlers (1947-48) to Israel's War of Independence (1948-49), the Suez War (1956), the Six Day War (1967), the Yom Kippur-Ramadan War (1973), the Lebanon War (1982) and the Palestinian intifadah (1987-93, approximately), the world has seen one major Arab-Israeli war roughly every eight years.

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The vast majority of ethanol is produced in five states--Iowa, Nebraska, Illinois, Minnesota and South Dakota--all roughly 1, 500 miles away from the approximately 80% of the population who live on the coasts.

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The facility sprawls across approximately 600 square miles of south-central Washington, an area roughly half the size of Rhode Island.

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Historically, it has taken approximately 12 to 20 months for unemployment to fall in an expansion to roughly pre-recession levels.

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