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Investors are betting the tariff will incentivize drug companies to invest in American production facilities and that the drug sales platform, TrumpRx, can solve the intractable cost of medication.

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Making the situation even more intractable is the timing: the pending departure of Macron makes it all the more unlikely that either side will make concessions.

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The region’s intractable housing and homelessness crisis is at the core of the union push.

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Since the start of the war it has become shorthand for a series of intractable and maximalist demands that Putin say stand in the way of a ceasefire.

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Whenever Kremlin officials have spoken this week, it has been to reiterate Putin's seemingly intractable position on the conflict.

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