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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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Then came the stupendous moment as the all clear was announced - Khrushchev had backed down at the very last moment!
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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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The sheer inertia and complacency of the Soviet system (not least among the intelligentsia) made it almost inevitable that things would be left to the very last moment, when it was almost too late.
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Tlas saved himself at the very last moment.
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Now, perhaps the one exception to this was in the very last moment of Chairman Hyde's closing, when he suggested, with what might to many seem almost an inverted logic, that a lie to spare embarrassment about misconduct on a private occasion was more deserving of removal than a lie about, as he described it, important matters of state.
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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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The case for putting anti-missile defenses into place was underscored by this sobering fact: A ship like the North Korean vessel that was covertly carrying Scud B missiles and forcibly intercepted in the Arabian Sea last week could be steaming off the coast of the United States at this very moment.
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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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