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Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne's rebuttal is that to do nothing about the biggest peace-time budget deficit in the U.K.'s history would threaten to shut the country out of the bond market, much as Greece, Ireland and Portugal have been, causing an even-deeper financial crisis.
U.S. Debt Negotiators Should Look to Britain Alen Mattich 2011
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With the war over, Coughlin had formulated a plan by which the organization would continue to operate and begin phasing into a “peace-time covert intelligence agency.”
A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011
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THIS was the govt technocracy (essentially a peace-time Manhattan Project approach) that Eisenhower resisted and that Kennedy & Johnson embraced.
Remembering Apollo 11 and the Legacy of Apollo - NASA Watch 2009
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South Korea plans an unprecedented peace-time mobilization of soldiers and police to minimize any trouble when it plays host to the leaders of the world's top 20 economies next month.
Security for G-20 Summit in Seoul Will be Unprecedented 2010
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It was later, during peace-time, that Grey met the woman who passed on the curse.
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Today, for the first time in peace-time recorded history, women outnumber men on the nation's payroll, amounting 50.3 percent.
Birute Regine: From Amazon Woman to a Feminine Presence Birute Regine 2011
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The war fragments the soul and makes the peace-time fragile at best.
Michael Meade, D.H.L.: The Spiritual Backfire of War D.H.L. Michael Meade 2011
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Reagan (1981-1989) 's tax cuts and military spending generated the biggest peace-time increase in the national debt.
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“He was the perfect leader for a guerilla war and the worst leader imaginable for peace-time bureaucracy …”
Think Progress » New poll finds more Americans in favor of eliminating the filibuster. 2010
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South Korea plans an unprecedented peace-time mobilization of soldiers and police to minimize any trouble when it plays host to the leaders of the world's top 20 economies next month.
Security for G-20 Summit in Seoul Will be Unprecedented 2010
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