The United States says North Korea's missile test Monday has not altered its determination to bring Pyongyang back to talks on its nuclear weapons.
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This is true on active Vegas weekends, especially at higher-stakes tables where fools, just in from California, are having fun making wild bets, often in states of altered awareness.
And we really have fundamentally altered the landscape of the United States by virtue of putting so much emphasis and so much power behind the national security establishment that is located in the Washington area.
It has been altered a lot to better match the realities of our newer economy where little is manufactured in the United States and finance in its various forms has become a huge employer.