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America has to attract a constant flow of foreign capital to finance government and imports, an unstable position.

The military has since suspended the electoral process and blocked the results' release, and has insisted it thwarted a plot to destabilise the politically unstable country.

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Over tens of millions of years, this pocket of warm, unstable rock slowly migrated to its current position at a pace of about 20 km per million years.

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Walk around it, and the shifting, light-reflective and -absorbent white forms create an uncanny illusion of the pillar in jumpy, unstable motion.

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But he says that Peru's unstable national governments make change difficult.

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

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