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You know, in the occupation in Kosovo at the end of the war, the U.S. troops were never in the majority in that operation.
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Silvio Berlusconi, the Italian prime minister, who chaired the summit, accepted Mr Blair's insistence that member countries keep their vetoes on such issues as tax, social security and judicial co-operation, instead of introducing majority voting as the draft constitution had proposed.
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Rep. Greg Walden, who runs the House GOP 2014 campaign operation to retain and expand their majority, told reporters he tapped Rep. Jamie Herrera Beutler, the youngest female House member and a Hispanic, to help with outreach.
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Ch Supt Matthew Greening told BBC News he thought the operation went well, and that the majority of fans had behaved themselves.
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Last week, as you might already know, AOL laid off over 200 U.S.-based employees, the vast majority of them from its Manhattan-based media operation.
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He added that the vast majority of areas in the hospital were already back in operation, although patients in two wards remained where they had been relocated to elsewhere in the hospital while minor work was carried out.
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Boyd runs a lean operation, relying on cheap processing power and the Internet to handle the vast majority of transactions.
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As Alex Boraine, who served as deputy to Archbishop Desmond Tutu on the commission, reminds us, the offer of forgiveness which formed the centrepiece of the commission was the outcome of compromise between white minority rulers and the unenfranchised black majority: the price of securing a peaceful transition, and in particular the co-operation of the apartheid security services.
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Agreement over the tax had already been reached before the meeting, and the nod from a majority of the Ecofin group of EU finance ministers - a requirement of the enhanced co-operation procedure - was merely a procedural matter, according to the Irish Finance Minister Michael Noonan.
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