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A similar implausibility afflicts much of the story's detail.

The problem is fundamental because the speculative cycle afflicts much of the world.

A Country of Two Tales: By means of narrative nonfiction, Siddhartha Deb's "The Beautiful and the Damned" and Katherine Boo's "Behind the Beautiful Forevers" vivify India's social troubles, in particular, the abject poverty that still afflicts much of the citizenry.

Whatever the intellectual commitments of India's space scientists, there's no doubt that the language of national "heroism" and technological "might", which underpins a dangerous religiously inflected military and nuclear standoff in the region, afflicts much of the praise poured on the Mars mission's success.

The sense of respect we owe others, whether or not we believe as they do, illuminates this country, setting it apart from the discord that afflicts much of the rest of the world.

Yet it is not immune to the violence afflicting much of the Arab world.

Yet the political chaos and violence afflicting much of the rest of North Africa continues to creep across Tunisian borders.

In economic conditions such as those afflicting much of the industrialised world at present, taxes on savings should rise to encourage consumer spending and so stimulate demand.

Their leverage had never been better, and, for the most part, they'd been able to spare their group the cuts in pay and the layoffs that had afflicted much of the rest of the firm.

THE real estate markets of the Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn and Staten Island are suffering from the housing downturn that has afflicted much of the country, and yet they still have some pockets of strength.

It must be given the necessary resources to help rescue those who fall into difficulties either through over-optimistic borrowing (as in Eastern Europe), market panic, or collapse of export prices (now afflicting much of the developing world).