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  • The firm cut 10% of its staff last week, named fewer partners than it has in recent years and will pay out smaller bonuses.

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  • The Supreme Court has in recent years generally given law enforcement some latitude to conduct its in a heightened security environment, but not without some checks.

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  • Sir Stelios, who founded Easyjet in 1995, has in recent years had a number of high-profile arguments with the management over the way the company is run.

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  • In contrast, the government has in recent years extended the vote to most expatriates, who, by amazing coincidence, are often affluent, older and more likely to vote Tory.

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  • Uganda has in recent years backed numerous rebel groups in Congo, with accusations and counter accusations that its troops are implicated in some of the atrocities in that region.

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  • And it isn't just that the Bush administration has in recent years preferred to indulge the Iraqi leadership's kneejerk anti-Semitism over supporting Israel's need to preempt threats of national annihilation.

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  • The century-old company, whose founder invented the first mechanical pencil and designed one of the first radio sets in Japan, has in recent years fallen behind nimbler rivals, such as South Korea's Samsung.

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  • Given that Spain has in recent years accounted for a big chunk of euro-zone growth and close to half of all jobs created in the euro area, its slowdown will be widely felt.

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  • Then consider that the Department of Energy has in recent years built up an insanely terrible record of wasting taxpayer money by directing funds to private companies, many of which have simply gone belly up (but not before paying lavish bonuses to executives).

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  • And to do that, IBM, which by the 1990s had become a coddling workplace, has in recent years transformed itself as an employer, annually firing thousands of workers in one country (often the U.S.), and hiring thousands in other countries (India, Brazil, the Philippines).

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  • And the U.S. Supreme Court has in recent years been handing down rulings generally seen to be helpful to defendants in patent infringement cases, in one notable case severely limiting the ability of outfits that do not conduct actual business operations to assert patents in court.

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  • Demand for energy in China has surged in recent years as its economy has expanded.

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