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And its success kicks up thornier questions for Netanyahu, a deeply unpopular leader with many Israelis and whose critics accuse of prolonging the war to guarantee his political survival at the expense of hostages’ lives.

OTTAWA—The Bank of Canada’s No. 2 official endorsed a competition shakeup in the highly concentrated financial-services industry, saying the country’s banking sector is an oligopoly and changes could help lift Canada’s prolonged productivity slump.

“Pressure from major industrial groups to avoid a prolonged cycle of tit-for-tat measures, as well as concerns about jeopardizing U.S. support for the war in Ukraine, ultimately outweighed pure economic calculus,” Lagarde said.

Justice Kennedy might have spared the country a prolonged fit of insanity by plumping the other way in Obergefell and letting voters hash out the issue themselves.

“They often shuffled patients throughout programs for seemingly no reason other than to prolong benefits payments,” Aetna says in the lawsuit.