• Investment banks must have a dizzying influence over the regulator to win special protection from short-selling, particularly as they act as prime brokers for almost all short-sellers.

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  • Speight - who held Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry and his government hostage for almost two months - is now serving a life sentence for treason.

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  • Initially trained as a chemist, Margaret Thatcher retrained to be a lawyer, then followed her passion and entered political life at a time when the idea of becoming a female Prime Minister was almost inconceivable- even to herself.

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  • It is almost certain that the prime minister's right-wing Likud-Yisrael Beitenu alliance will enjoy that privilege after Tuesday's vote.

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  • Last month, the coalition elected American-educated Ghassan Hitto as its prime minister but almost immediately witnessed a walkout by about a dozen of its members, who accused Qatar and the Brotherhood of using pressure to install its candidate for prime minister.

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  • Of the items on display, the one that looked most useful and almost ready for prime time was Sharp's media player with video-on-demand functions (above).

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  • Almost any bank with a lot of retail business except for sub-prime lending and perhaps credit cards can expect its minimum capital to fall.

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  • But the foot-and-mouth statement will almost certainly be seen as the event at which the prime minister set his party on course for that date with destiny.

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  • Second, he has wrestled for power almost non-stop with the left-of-centre Bulent Ecevit, the current prime minister.

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  • The yen appeared to briefly regain its safe-haven status after four months of almost uninterrupted losses as Japan's new prime minister pushes for aggressive monetary easing.

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  • There will be almost 25m men aged 15-24 looking for dignified employment and not finding it prime tinder for extreme politics and religious fundamentalist teachings.

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  • President Yeltsin had sacked his long-time Prime Minister, Viktor Chernomyrdin, in March, replacing him with the almost unknown Sergei Kiriyenko.

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  • At age 82, he came back as prime minister (for the fourth time), and in several exhausting months almost single-handedly pushed Home Rule through Parliament, only to see it contemptuously discarded by the House of Lords.

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  • More deeply, the competing instincts that run through his government on the one hand, a bold, impatient desire to fix the state, on the other a deep, almost genetic comfort with life at the apex of the British Establishment co-exist within the prime minister himself.

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  • The prime minister made a public pledge to rebuild every house in Nahr el-Bared, now almost totally destroyed by army shelling.

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