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While it is true, as Krugman says, that the Economic Strategy Institute received early financial support from Milliken, it is also the case, as Krugman should have known, that Milliken ceased making contributions over four years ago when ESI, over Milliken's objections, provided critical support to the passage of NAFTA and the ratification of the World Trade Organization and free-trade arrangements concluded in the Uruguay Round.
Over a millennium, Poland evolved from a huge and imposing, economically powerful kingdom to a partitioned nation that ceased to exist on world maps for over 120 years, and finally to a people and land at the center of the 20th century’s greatest wars and most horrific human tragedies.
To this day, long after Latin has ceased to be the principal medium of written legal documents and records, lawyers cling to and defend against all comers unnumbered words and phrases in that ancient tongue, under the persuasion, justified or not, that they enrich the legal vocabulary with precision, permanence, and dignity.
His first posting, dated Aug. 19, reads thus: "Since I've been living with this story for so long, it ceased to shock me long ago.
Many of the high packhorse routes had ceased to be used for the transportation of goods, but these old “rights of way” for foot and bridle traffic were now transformed into an extensive network of marked and mapped routes ideal for recreational walkers and hikers.