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Serbs may find solidarity in the memory of defeats past and present, but when it comes to rallying America, nothing succeeds like success.
After defeats by Greeks in the south, Latins in the center, and Gallic invaders in the north, the Etruscan empire faded in the fourth century b.c.
Straws in the wind: It's been a bad month for Communists , with election defeats in Bulgaria, Lithuania, and Romania, on top of prior losses in Russia and the Czech Republic.
Just as index-fund investing defeats this purpose, so too does trading based on anything other than an evaluation of a company's underlying prospects for the future.
The common missile warning system detects missiles in flight, and the advanced threat infrared countermeasure defeats the missile