Area resident Steven Dominguez, 18, was walking to a grocery store with his mother, Adelina Dominguez, when he saw the woman fall.

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"I'm really feeling the crisis and need to cut down on supermarket bills, " said Adelina Encarnacao Sousa Ponte Lima, a 50-year-old mother of six from Lisbon, the Portuguese capital.

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Adelina Marku, who speaks for the Tetovo-based Democratic Party of Albanians, a junior partner in Macedonia's ruling coalition government, says that the Kosovars, who declared nominal independence from Serbia back in 1991 and created a series of notional organs of state, had lulled themselves into a false sense of security.

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