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Universitaires

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Acadamics

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Un tsunami annonciateur de temps chaotique

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A tsunami Heralding chaotic events

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Ceinture de rouille

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Rustbelt

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Il convient donc de s’interroger

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So one can wonder

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Expliquent la survenue d’un tel phénomène

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How such a phenomene can be accounted for

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De plus en plus

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Increasingly

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Dérive

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Drift

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Les républicains

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The GOP (Grand old Party)

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Un Magnat

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A tycoon

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Immobilier

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Real estate

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Hors-systèmes

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Mavericks

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Un homologue

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A counterpart

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Calmes, réfléchi

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Sanguine

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14
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Place with all the lobbies

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K-street

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15
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Cercle politique de washington

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Washington Beltway

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Tenue pour acquise

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Taken for granted

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Remis en cause et contestée

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Questioned and contested

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18
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Ce Scrutin

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This ballot

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Divisés

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Divided

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20
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Référendum

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Referendum

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21
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Passas vite en revue

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To glance at it

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22
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Regarde en essayer d’identifier

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To peer

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23
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Dévisager

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To stare

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24
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Arrête de marmonner mâcher tes mots

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Stop mumbling

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Il disparue en un clin d’œil

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He disappeared in the twinkling of an eye

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Prendre le relais

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Took over

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Figure vigoureuse

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Lusty figure

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Personnifie

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Embodies

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Le dynamisme

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The stamina

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Se résume à

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Is nothing more

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Vautrée

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Loafing / lying

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Dégager qqch

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To radiate

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Myope

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Short-sighted

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Ils parlent de nanas

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The m’y discuss cheeks

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Reluquer

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To checking up

36
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On s’entendait à merveille

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We got along fine

37
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Emménager

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To settle down

38
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L’importance de ce lieu stratégique

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How crucial this stragical place could be

39
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Cela ne date pas d’hier

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Its not new

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Indépendance

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Independence

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La monnaie unique

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The single currency

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La concurrence

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Competition

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La compétitivité

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Competitiveness

44
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Décentraliser le pouvoir

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Dévolution

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Refuse de bouger/

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Refused to budge

46
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Au cours des deux siècles précédents

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During the previous two century

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Prospérité

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The wealth

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Dans le sillage

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In the wake of

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Le sort

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The fate

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Émettre

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To issue

51
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Un sablier

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An hour glass

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Cornemuse

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Bagpipe

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Homme de terrain, de réalité

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Matter of facts

54
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Riche

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Deep - pocketed

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Mixer les économies

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To mangle national economies

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A endeavour

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A project an attempt

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Armoir

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Wardrobe

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La goutiere

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The guttee

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Les draps

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The sheets

60
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Un risque

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A Hazard

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Un bourbier

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A quagmire