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Ukraine's political standoff has been aggravated by its rapidly deteriorating finances.

The political standoff has been largely defined as a debate over tax hikes versus spending cuts.

The effect of the standoff has been deeply felt in rural states like Nebraska.

A business group has estimated that the standoff has been costing local businesses about $5.4 million a day.

Up to now, that gritty standoff has been the high point in American qualifying history in Azteca.

The great nuclear standoff has been replaced by noxious new forms of terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction in the hands of governments that have proved far less responsible than those in Moscow or in Washington.

Four and a half years later, the results of Aleppo's cruel standoff have been devastating.

The tremors from this standoff have been particularly acute in the city's print and online newsrooms.

A media blackout on reporting of the standoff had been implemented by the Turkish television watchdog, forcing Turkish television channels to cut the live transmissions of the incident.

On Monday night, Mr. Romney's campaign scaled back the changes it sought in a compromise struck with a contingent of party activists, suggesting the standoff had been resolved.

While the company declined to say how many customers in the current quarter had canceled their subscriptions as a result of the Fox issue, Cablevision's chief operating officer, Tom Rutledge, said the standoff had been justified.