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Everything changed in 1971, when US President Richard Nixon, unable to contain the fiscal deficit resulting from spending on the Vietnam War and expanded social-welfare programs, abolished the dollar’s direct convertibility to gold.

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However, when a dedicated project manager is unable to shield the team from requirements changing, respondents rated this approach as poor.

The housing office is unable to build new structures, and existing structures are falling apart.

For those who can't walk, who are unable to get there right now, people started to organize walks in cities, in their own communities.

It's one that I predicted in the last page or two of my 1991 book, "Consciousness Explained," where I said if you did experiments of this sort, you'd find that people were unable to pick up really large changes.

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