It also pushes up prices and the rising cost of living has been cited as one of the biggest concerns among voters leading up to the election.

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Having witnessed the squabbling among different generations living under one roof, Gill wanted to begin afresh with his new wife.

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After first maintaining that 1 billion people will die from tobacco-related disease globally in this century, vs. 100 million in the previous one, he said that 100 million Chinese now living will be among them.

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The plot, plucked from Hollywood's recycle bin by Todd Komarnicki and Jon Bokenkamp, is prodded into sluggish action when one of Rowena's childhood friends turns up dead -- not just no longer among the living, but murdered in a way that provides a grisly sequence in the morgue.

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Although Slovenia is one of the smallest among the recent wave of EU entrants, it is also the closest by far to the standards of living enjoyed in the more established EU members a status that was implicitly recognised when it joined the euro zone at the beginning of 2007.

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