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Implicit state support was no doubt helpful, but this did not amount to a bail-out: Satyam had to raise bridge finance on its own from private-sector banks.
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If that's the path the Palestinians are going to go along, I personally believe it has to be a decision that's taken in a positive sense, rather than a negative sense, not just because the two state solution is no longer working, but because this is something that Palestinians inherently want.
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But in its current state of strategic imbecility, no European leader can acknowledge this basic fact.
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But there was no repeat of that situation this time with both men keen to state their country's case as well as push for peace.
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"It was good that she could be brought back but I have no words to describe the fact that she has to be brought back in this state, " he told journalists at Narita airport, east of Tokyo.
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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.
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Ordinarily, all of the remaining perfect teams at this time of year are bunched together at the top of the polls. (Save for small-conference teams like 13-0 Murray State, which is 20th in the Associated Press poll.) But this year, 12-0 Louisville is No. 4, behind once-beaten Ohio State and Kentucky.
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In theory, Maine's probation officers still have a right to claim back pay under federal law but, like millions of others covered by this or other federal laws, they can no longer sue in either state or federal court if a state government infringes those rights.
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But the state is equally in a trap because of this looming requirement to provide welfare for people who no longer may be able to fulfil their own welfare needs.
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