King Hussein had to intervene from his sickbed to sack the prime minister and appoint a replacement.

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The problem is that the markets, like relatives around the sickbed, heard the diagnosis with alarm and discounted the new prescription.

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This fire-fighting approach continued even as Mr Chavez lingered on his Cuban sickbed, with Vice-President Nicolas Maduro implementing a 32% devaluation of the bolivar in February.

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LDP's power brokers from his sickbed, still the puppet master.

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During my first reading of "Robinson Crusoe" as a child, I knew that I wasn't meeting an action figure, but a mortal touched by the prosaic realities of the sickbed.

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Her message, whether to heads of state in banquet halls or to journalists at her sickbed, was that she was placed on earth to feed, nurse and comfort the poorest of the poor.

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But, despite a closeness which saw Ive as one of the few at his boss's sickbed right near the end, what also emerges is a good deal of resentment on the part of the designer.

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