The larger increase in the nominal size of both economies is explained by domestic inflation.

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Banking on Secretary of Defense Robert Gates' Republican credentials and relatively robust reputation, the Obama Pentagon has now formally abandoned the nominal planning guidance to size and equip the force to fight and win major conventional wars (originally two simultaneous ones, subsequently two nearly simultaneous ones, then one-and-a half of them).

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All of a sudden your properties would look relatively cheap for their size, that is until customer walkthroughs reveal that what is 16, 000 square feet in nominal terms is really only 4, 000.

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