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Even companies that are not as close to the edge as Renaissance are imperiled by a nation of newly parsimonious consumers.

On Sunday, he found himself surrounded by a nation of relative newcomers who could scarcely imagine what he had gone through to get to this point.

"You have spoke to a nation of six million Catholics, but you have been heard by a nation of more than 60 million citizens and by many millions all around the world," he said.

Of course, Americans have been circulating their own kinds of legends, starting with the fantasies a few months ago that the occupying troops would be peacefully welcomed by a nation of grateful flower-waving citizens.

Comparing herself to the impoverished women she finds, women shunned and abandoned by a nation of men who condone the prevailing, systematic brutalities, Ms. Jackson tells us that when she was married, her husband referred to her as "damaged goods".

"It smells too strongly of the [negro] to assume a dignified rank of the National Song" declared one malcontent, while another argued it was "absurd to imagine that Dixie, a dancing; capering, rowdyish, bacchanalian negro air" could be sung by "a nation of free men … with any respect for themselves".

By carrying one into hate crimes, racists try to elevate their evil by suggesting a nation of racists stands behind them.

"We are not by nature a nation of beggars.

JAKARTA — Locals here quip that while Indonesia is the world's largest archipelago nation — by definition, a nation of islands — it is not a maritime nation.

Sheer numbers make the educational push by China, a nation of more than 1.3 billion people, potentially breathtaking.

The Japanese, eager to resume whaling and by tradition a nation of whale-eaters, might be expected to be buyers, but they are not.