The World Cup will also leave a legacy of new infrastructure to buoy economic expansion in the future.

VOA: standard.2010.06.07

"I think we are recognizing that the Washington consensus on economic policy is over - that the old world has gone, that we have got to build a new consensus on economic development for the future,".

VOA: standard.2009.03.25

Most importantly, it means that DBAs who have spent so much of their time, energy, and money in developing their skills in the traditional RDBMS world will have a new future in the Big Data world.

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This gave the bulls new confidence that any future world economic or geopolitical jitters would likely prompt more safe-haven investment demand for the precious yellow metal.

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One simply cannot pretend to make a case for American exceptionalism as we see ourselves looking more like developing nations in the world rather than the nations who are leading the world into a new future.

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