• Despite their spat over shares and the more recent book controversy, Allen says he and Gates remain friendly.

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  • His true identity as a German immigrant with a checkered past was unveiled in connection with his kidnapping of his daughter and the more recent murder charge against him.

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  • It is, in other words, about avoiding excesses a notion that has helped many Thai businesses weather the 1997 Asian financial crisis and the more recent financial crisis affecting much of the Western world.

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  • The southern African country, which has a major city named Blantyre after Livingstone's birthplace, is a largely agricultural economy that is making efforts to overcome decades of underdevelopment and the more recent impact of a growing HIV-Aids problem.

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  • Inflation has been above target in 38 out of the last 44 months, and the Bank, through policies such as quantitative easing and the more recent Funding for Lending scheme, has been trying to ensure homeowners and businesses have greater access to cheaper loans to try to stimulate the recovery.

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  • But the two television series that really secured Portmeirion's place in the popular British imagination were 1960s sci-fi drama The Prisoner (with the village making an eerily jovial setting for the Kafkaesque story), and the more recent Cold Feet, the romantic comedy series whose final episode in 2003 turned Portmeirion into a popular wedding venue overnight.

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  • There is clear evidence that winter storms throughout southern Scandinavia were more frequent and intense during the multi-century Dark Ages Cold Period and the much more recent Little Ice Age than either now or other comparably warm periods.

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  • Examples abound, from the Futurist Manifesto of 1909 to the conservative Contract With America in 1994 and the slightly more recent Cluetrain Manifesto.

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  • Strikingly, when reading the report, the parallels between this debacle and other corporate disasters of the recent and more distant past are stunningly clear.

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  • They suspect that it was responsible for the sudden spread of the Indo-European group of humanity about 4, 000 years ago, and also for the more recent spread of the Tutsis in Africa, whose ancestors independently evolved a tolerant version of the gene.

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  • The saving surplus in East and South-East Asia is the legacy of a bust both more recent and more spectacular than the 1970s oil shocks: the Asian financial crisis in 1997-98.

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  • While the vast majority of the abuse cases happened in the 1960s, '70s, and '80s, the recent revelation of more case and the failings of the church in dealing with many of them have left fresh scars that have been slow to heal, victims' advocates say.

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  • While the body of knowledge on movement making owes much to causes in the distant past, perhaps the most catalytic and influential was more recent the United Farm Workers movement led by Cesar Chavez.

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  • To call the adaptation of scripted formats a new tactic is to ignore TV relics like 1970s' All in the Family and Three's Company--both of which hailed from Britain--and more recent hits The Office (from Britain) and Ugly Betty (from Columbia).

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  • Perish the thought, say senior Spanish officials: there are no more secrets in the banks, and the optimistic outlook rests on the predicted success of recent reforms (eg, to make the labour market more flexible) and scores of new ones to be adopted in the coming year.

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  • Under current law, America is set for a fiscal squeeze worth roughly 5% of GDP as the Bush tax cuts and a host of more recent temporary tax reductions expire at the end of this year, and deep cuts to defence and other types of federal spending kick in.

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  • In a recent paper in Ecosystems, Robert Steneck and his colleagues at the University of Maine report that 4, 500 years of archaeological data from village middens along the coast, and also more recent fishing records, suggest that fishing pressures may have pushed the ecosystem of the Gulf of Maine into a new, less-stable state.

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  • Debenhams, which runs 145 stores across the UK and Ireland, also revealed more recent evidence of the slowing economy.

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  • And the more likaeble Hoyas of recent years have maintained enough success to remain a premium brand.

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  • Most astonishing of all, Russia has shed two empires the 14 republics that it had bludgeoned into submission within the Soviet Union and the wider group of more recent conquests in East and Central Europe.

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  • The Monday Club, which was set up in the 1960s over the decolonisation of Africa and seen in more recent years as a bastion of the Tory hard right, also lobbies on other contentious issues such as capital punishment.

    BBC: Tories suspend link with Monday Club

  • The combination of central processing units, the traditional foundation of high- performance computers, and more recent GPUs will allow Titan to occupy the same space as its Jaguar predecessor while using only marginally more electricity.

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  • Health care, business and the STEM majors (science, technology, engineering and math) are more stable and higher paying for recent college graduates, whereas graduates of the arts, humanities and social sciences face higher unemployment rates and earn lower salaries.

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  • Gonzales has had a rough tenure at the Justice Department, with his controversial position on the treatment of prisoners in Guantanamo, his views on domestic surveillance, and his more recent role in the firings of eight U.S. attorneys.

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  • We also indicated that we acknowledged the role performed by central banks of different countries, and more particularly, in the recent past, the role of the European Central Bank, the role performed to the effect of ultimately preventing a liquidity crisis of substantial proportions, which would thus affect all countries adversely.

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  • Pierre Aidenbaum, who personally welcomed the participants and encouraged their discussion of this topic - one made all the more urgent in light of the recent, destructive riots in the French capital and elsewhere in the country during the Fall of 2005 and violent manifestations of rising anti-semitism in Western Europe.

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  • In the spring and summer of recent years, the polar ice cap has receded more quickly and more dramatically.

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  • That is still too fast for the government, which unexpectedly raised interest rates on October 19th and has outlined more measures to cool the market in recent weeks, including higher down-payment requirements and the introduction of a property tax in some cities.

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  • From helping to protect Yosemite and millions of acres of wilderness to the more recent work of building powerful alliances with labor and impacted communities, Sierra Club volunteers and staff have played a pivotal role in many of the most important environmental victories over the past century.

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  • "You - as the industry's leaders - must also understand that many other parts of the economy within Wales (and indeed other parts of agriculture) have suffered from the effects of the weather over the last 12 months, and more generally in the global downturn of recent years, " he wrote.

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