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This country with nearly 1 billion people has long shed what was mockingly called "the Hindu growth rate"--1 to 2% a year--and now regularly turns in a 6 or 7% annual growth in GNP every year, and could reach, if it found itself with a government that accelerates the pace of liberalization, a comfortable cruising speed of 8 to 9%, without the instability that plagues its competitors in east Asia and without the lack of political and judicial transparency that is China's main handicap.

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For nearly two decades now, the news has been bad and the images have been haunting.

With an average depth of the oceans of 4,000 meters, in fact, the high seas covers and provides nearly 90 percent of the habitat for life on this Earth.

It's a scene that played out in nearly all of our families.

That is the magnitude of the sacrifice that had to have happened in nearly all of our families just for us to be here.

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