What is made in Germany is often the work of only a few highly skilled people engaged in an inexorable pursuit of quality and precision.

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Then there's Iran, whose inexorable pursuit of nuclear weapons has not been appreciably slowed, let alone derailed, by President Obama's "engagement" with the mullahs in Tehran.

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However, past history clearly signals to investors that it is only a matter of time before economic conditions deteriorate to the point where governments return to their inexorable pursuit of inflation.

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