He, among others, suspects that the regime Europe's longest-surviving offshoot of communist times is on its last legs.

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"We're concerned that the cycle may be on its last legs, " says Bart Mosley, co-president of Trident Municipal Research in New York.

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More: Is the core of al Qaeda on its last legs?

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Best Buy meanwhile, was supposed to be on its last legs, with only a buyout led by founder Richard Schulze looming as a potential lifeline.

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That will not be a gradual process, because much of the joint weapons inventory is already on its last legs, and potential adversaries like China are not standing still.

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This is a problem for someone like me, living in a Verizon-dominated area with a phone on its last legs, and I think Verizon is making a huge mistake not getting these devices into their lineup as soon as possible.

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This past weekend, with US soldiers suffering one of the costliest months of the conflict and with the number of civilian deaths mounting, Vice President Cheney offered CNN's Larry King his own optimistic sense of an Iraqi insurgency on its last legs.

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