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If the U.S. legally forecloses this question while other nations leave it open, we risk being strategically blindsided.

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Isabella County, in which the court will examine whether government has the right to keep value beyond what is owed in taxes after foreclosing on a home.

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This does not, of course, foreclose another question: Does the book add anything of additional value—defining the term, loosely, to include perspective and narrative fluency?

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But circumstances can change, and a permanent prohibition against Ukrainian membership would foreclose a step that may become necessary.

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Unlike a factory built to make a particular product, land is easy to repurpose—which makes foreclosed land easy to sell.

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