It will be hard for his fresh-faced new team to regain lost ground before parliamentary elections in November.

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Wednesday is the big day they unveil the result of a massive, long-awaited attempt to regain lost ground in the smartphone wars against Apple, Android and Samsung, with the release of BlackBerry 10.

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They knew the decision would hurt, and the company's stock price fell to half in 2006, not to regain lost ground for another four years, as HTC had to increase investment in manufacturing its own phones while making phones for others.

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It's not too late for the president to regain this lost ground, but it is getting later than some in the White House might like to think.

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As well as being burdened by unsustainable levels of external debt, all five economies share the misery of trying to regain lost competitive ground through internal devaluation, in which domestic costs are ground down year after year.

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In Gaza meanwhile, Hamas felt popular pressure to negotiate an easing of the Israeli blockade, and to regain political ground lost to President Abbas this summer when he took his people's case for recognition to the United Nations.

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Over the long term, higher productivity growth and better-functioning labour markets are vital if economies in southern Europe are to regain the competitive ground they lost in the first decade of monetary union, when their unit labour costs soared relative to those in northern countries like Germany.

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Sears recently invested in a Big Data program to improve customer loyalty and regain some of the ground the company has lost to Amazon.

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Along with other Mediterranean countries, its economy lost ground to Germany's over the past decade and now needs to regain it.

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