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Wages were also rising. Most of our work lay in the future, in helping with the immensely difficult task of resolving the tough issues, Hillary and I said that we Americans had to make the most of this opportunity to keep making our own country better and to spread the benefits and share the burdens of the twenty-first–century world. Over ten thousand people filled the downtown streets, with many more leaning out of their office windows.