• Andre Lee was widely blamed for almost single-handedly bringing down one of Asia's best-known investment banks, Peregrine, in 1998, by lending a large part of its capital base to a troubled Indonesian taxi company with links to the then ruling Suharto family.

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  • " Kuala Lumpur's priority, he added, was to "put our house in order -- improve economic fundamentals by tightening fiscal policy, postponing some mega-projects and bringing the current-account deficit down.

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  • Governments are solidly behind the new vehicles, which they see as essential for bringing down carbon-dioxide emissions and reducing pollution in cities.

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  • The Central Africans held their nerve again to level matters on 43 minutes when Hamad Ndikumana scored a penalty after Joseph Hendricks conceded a controversial penalty for bringing down Belgium-based Desire Mbonabuyca.

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  • But again Sackey was equal to the task, bringing Tuilagi down head-on as Joe Worsley and Raphael Ibanez completed the three-man demolition job, forcing Tuilagi to concede a penalty for holding on.

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  • The rebels agreed to back the measure only after the government promised to ask a new commission on health and pension reform to extend its recommendations to ways of bringing down non-wage labour costs.

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  • Whether the Clinton-Gore Administration will, in fact, agree to make cuts in energy consumption beyond those involved in bringing carbon-dioxide emissions down to 1990 levels by 2008-2012, either at Kyoto or in a further round of negotiations that now seem all but inevitable, remains to be seen.

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  • Almunia conceded a first-half penalty for bringing down Odemwingie and, although he saved Brunt's resulting spot-kick, he was later beaten at his near post by Jara.

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  • And that would give a boost to confidence that the administration is really focusing on bringing down the out-year fiscal deficit.

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  • But bringing inflation down to single-digit figures and keeping it there, as well as clearing up the banking system, requires political will.

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  • Mr Edis said Ms Oakeshott told her it would fulfil her dual objective - "bringing Chris down without damaging your own reputation in the process".

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  • She was entering her fifth year as an investment banker on Wall Street, and it was clear that something other than the long-hours was bringing her down.

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  • Napoli defender Salvatore Aronica was fortunate to stay on the pitch for a tackle on Ngog but Liverpool will feel justice was done when the Italian was punished for bringing down Reds right-back Johnson.

    BBC: Liverpool 3-1 Napoli

  • Well the effects of globalisation and our interdependence with other countries, the new network electronic communications means that we're also vulnerable in other ways - cyber attack bringing down the networks, pandemics, influenza, the First World War, DNA's now on the Internet, energy policy - all of these bring insecurities and potential threats to our country quite apart from...

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  • And Mr Obama's cost-control mechanisms, imperfect though they are, have a fiscally useful role to play in bringing down the costs of government-provided insurance for the poor and the elderly.

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  • The skis dug into the lip of the slope, bringing the 450-pound snowmobile crashing down on him.

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  • From 1995 to 1997 he ran its European power-tools business, bringing down high overhead costs by removing 50 vice presidents.

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  • Can he avoid turnovers and stay as mentally tough as he did bringing SF back from 17-0 down against Atlanta?

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  • But the Federal Reserve's bringing inflation down to a near-nonexistent level was the equivalent of a tax cut, overwhelming the damage done by those tax increases.

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  • The listed company has been cleaning up its balance sheet, bringing down the consolidated debt-to-equity ratio from 1.72 at the peak in 2009 to 0.57 this year.

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  • Skelton swarmed all over the technically-superior Sprott for 11 and a half rounds before bringing him down and Williams will be playing a dangerous game going toe-to-toe.

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  • As more and more men, steel and coal went into military output, non-military output declined, bringing down standards of living.

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  • Prabhat Dayal, the chief of the Rajasthan Energy Development Agency, is optimistic about bringing down the cost of solar-generated electricity.

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  • Bringing down the cost of cutting-edge research is important, Perfetto says, because resource-constrained operations like garages, schools, and researchers in the developing world inherently think different.

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  • "By bringing optical fibres in some of the networks, by just closing the loops, you will avoid excessive Internet transit costs, bringing down the cost by two-thirds, " he said.

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  • The introduction of scrum-half Alessandro Troncon as a replacement for the injured Paul Griffen on 49 minutes seemed to lift the Italians and the sin-binning of Manta for bringing down a maul turned the game in their favour.

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  • Addressing MPs later, Mr Davey said a lot of people were on out-of-date tariffs and "bringing them down is going to save some of those people, indeed some of the most vulnerable, money and that is the right thing to do".

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  • Mr Obama also took a half-step in the direction of bringing down costs through the Republicans' favoured measure: tackling the huge costs of doctors' legal liabilities.

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  • Meanwhile, Dutch market gardeners had found a way to grow exotic tulips from seeds, instead of relying on the expert splitting of bulbs, bringing the price of these still-covetable blooms down sharply.

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