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His Treasury has committed $20 billion to stabilizing the peso in hopes of helping Milei, an ideological ally, and drawing Argentina more firmly into the U.S. orbit.

Moscow is also widely believed to retain the goal of forcing Ukraine back into Russia's orbit.

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For about a century, astronomers have known that the Milky Way's stars orbit its core, and Gaia has precisely tracked their speeds and trajectories.

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Chinese efforts to pull countries like Nepal, Bangladesh, Myanmar, the Maldives and Sri Lanka into its orbit threaten both India and the U.S.

It allowed colleagues on the orbiting lab to photograph the craft's underside and check if the heatshield had been breached.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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