But for many in the opposition, or close to Mr Anwar, the elections seem a side issue.
But you can devote an entire page to a little side issue in an otherwise great effort of investigative journalism.
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"While you can't prove influence in specific cases, it's hard to imagine a week spent listening on one side of a contentious issue won't have some impact, " said Doug Kendall, CCR's executive director.
On a good day, I could side-step the issue by selecting a different artist or song.
The twists and turns in the Italian government's attempt to sell its 49.9% stake in Alitalia has become a hot political issue, and has been a thorn in the side of Romano Prodi, who stepped down as prime minister in January.
This side event included a roundtable discussion on this issue, with several leading women scientists sharing information and experience about their work and career development.
The unchanged Russian position seemed to indicate that the first summit between the two leaders will lead to little movement on either side on the ABM question, a key issue on the agenda.
Mr Pearson added that a "happy side benefit" of the service would be to help curb piracy - a huge and growing issue in gaming, particularly on the PC platform.
On the right side you'll find a pretty standard-issue volume rocker and power button.
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Your issue about appetite is a fairly common side effect of psychostimulants.
"There are currently 58 diseases that are being treated using adult stem cells so the issue of stems cells has a positive side, providing the cells are obtained ethically, " Quintavalle told CNN.
He made a point, in his public pronouncements, of describing Israel as the Jewish state, but there is plainly no interest on the American side in seeing this issue of nomenclature become a big obstacle between Israelis and Palestinians.
Mlynarczyk experienced the other side of the privacy issue when he stepped out of a shower in a San Francisco, California, hostel to discover he had a female audience.
It is a complicated issue, and while I come down on the futurist side of the debate and think that for the most part piracy is overblown and the overreaction is much scarier, I do think there is a legitimate complaint to be made and some of these sites are obviously engaged in unethical and illegal activity.
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The China side of my brain was intrigued by a different dimension of the education issue when I picked up the Indian Express on September 10 and read a large article expressing concern over the just-released QS World University Rankings.
"But we have to make sure... that the other side comes with authentic intentions with a fair and real intention to resolve the issue, " he said.
Jack Lief , Arena's chief executive, points out that the heart valve side effects were rare, and that a big clinical trial could settle the issue.
On one side of the issue, Republicans and tea party activists argue that a key way to trim out-of-control state government spending and deficits is by targeting collective bargaining rights.
"The issue of borders between Israel living side-by-side with a future Palestinian state is one that needs to be resolved through negotiation, " said State Department spokesman Richard Boucher.
"On the criminal side, either they have to prosecute diligently or they've got a constitutional issue that allows the defendant to walk" because of the right to a speedy trial, said Bennett.
That means that one side can be pushed in several millimeters with an audible creak, a build-quality issue that Gigabyte says has been fixed in the production-line models.
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Two heavyweights in the race for mayor, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and former Comptroller Bill Thompson, are having their first major campaign clash over what seems like a neighborhood issue: the construction of a garbage-transfer station on the Upper East Side.
He pointed to a recent move to allow greater use of so-called "Trixi mirrors" - which are fitted to traffic lights to give lorry drivers a better view of cyclists on their left side at road junctions - as evidence of how serious the issue of safety was viewed.
What we have seen since late last week, early this week, when the ticket for the other side was filled out, was this initial announcement that there was a desire for a substantive policy debate, and once that substantive policy debate focused on the critical issue of Medicare, there's been, obviously, a desire on the other side to change the subject.
Democratic leaders said a handful of their caucus members facing tough re-election battles in November might side with the Republicans on the volatile issue.
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After a tendering process which lasted just two years from start to finish, the MoD is buying the side-arms to issue to all three services.
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