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Founded in 1875, Toshiba grew fat during Japan's 1980s bubble years, when the economy boomed on the back of land speculation and consumer spending reached dizzy heights.
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He has appointed a secret mediator to negotiate a prisoner swap between the sides, and says he will address Lebanon's claim to the Shebaa Farms, a patch of land within the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights that Israel has hinted it might be willing to cede in the interest of a more permanent settlement.
ECONOMIST: Lebanon after the war
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As well as removing slabs from the Bronte Way that links points of Bronte interest across the moor land that inspired Wuthering Heights, graves had been attacked.
BBC: Missing gravestones at Bronte Bell chapel cemetery
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The statement derided what it called "wishful thinking" in Jerusalem -- a direct crack at Labor Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's cautious policy of opening up serious land-for-peace talks with Syria over the Golan Heights.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Another Saddam In Syria?
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He wants Israel to surrender the Golan Heights, plus some Israeli land Syria illegally occupied from 1948 until1967, in exchange for a meaningless piece of paper.
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