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Perhaps the world economy is at a turning point, just ahead of the American bubble bursting at last, so that it is even now possible to put the US success in perspective as something that "obviously could not last", not with America's big external deficits, scant household savings, and prosperity driven by paper wealth.

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And it lay precisely in that insatiable curiosity, that irrepressible desire to know, no matter what the subject, no matter what the cost, even at a time when the keepers of the Doomsday Clock are willing to bet even money that the human race won't be around to imagine anything in the year 2100, a scant 93 years from now.

James meant this as a challenge, not an indictment of scant brain usage.

A parade of government subsidies is going to propose big-box and stadium developments in the South Bronx, but there is scant coordination between city agencies on how to deal with the cumulative effects of increased traffic, pollution, solid waste and the impacts on open space.

What safety they had was very scant.

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