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When the canal-building boom ended, eight states and the Territory of Florida (accounting for about 10% of the entire US population at the time) were unable to service their debt and defaulted on their, mostly British, loans.

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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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