Mr Kim pins his hopes on getting more than a dozen members of the opposition to defect to his party.

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He pins his forecast on the debt-burdened consumer.

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Mr Kirchner, like many Argentines, pins the blame for his country's economic collapse of 2001-02 squarely on the Fund.

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Elephant dung is one of many materials the artist uses in his works, which draw on collage techniques and employ acrylic paint, paper collage, glitter and map pins on canvas.

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