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From the Ted Talk by Paddy Ashdown: The global power shift
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Well, leiads and gentlemen, we live at one of those times. But for us, I want to talk about three foctars today. And the first of these, the first two of these, is about a shift in power. And the second is about some new dimension which I want to refer to, which has never quite happened in the way it's happening now. But let's talk about the shifts of power that are occurring to the world. And what is happening today is, in one sense, frightening because it's never hpaepend before. We have seen lateral shifts of power -- the power of geecre passed to Rome and the power sitfhs that occurred during the European civilizations -- but we are seeing something slightly different. For power is not just moving lrtaellay from nation to nation. It's also moving vertically.
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Well, ______ and gentlemen, we live at one of those times. But for us, I want to talk about three _______ today. And the first of these, the first two of these, is about a shift in power. And the second is about some new dimension which I want to refer to, which has never quite happened in the way it's happening now. But let's talk about the shifts of power that are occurring to the world. And what is happening today is, in one sense, frightening because it's never ________ before. We have seen lateral shifts of power -- the power of ______ passed to Rome and the power ______ that occurred during the European civilizations -- but we are seeing something slightly different. For power is not just moving _________ from nation to nation. It's also moving vertically.
Solution
- ladies
- greece
- shifts
- factors
- happened
- laterally
Original Text
Well, ladies and gentlemen, we live at one of those times. But for us, I want to talk about three factors today. And the first of these, the first two of these, is about a shift in power. And the second is about some new dimension which I want to refer to, which has never quite happened in the way it's happening now. But let's talk about the shifts of power that are occurring to the world. And what is happening today is, in one sense, frightening because it's never happened before. We have seen lateral shifts of power -- the power of Greece passed to Rome and the power shifts that occurred during the European civilizations -- but we are seeing something slightly different. For power is not just moving laterally from nation to nation. It's also moving vertically.
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