Over the last five years, Bob has made the bank more transparent, he has helped shore up progress made in places like Afghanistan.

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For the time being, this may require the alliance to slow the pace of "progress" being made toward an agreement an accord that could otherwise legitimize and help shore up the very Warsaw Pact links that must be ruptured.

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