His biggest innovation was to change the background colour.

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Against this background, constitutional change had the estimable advantage of appearing radical but costing little.

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The forces of change and optimism like Ms Usman, or the clan militias and extremists hovering in the background, waiting for the new government to run out of money and momentum and poised to push Somalia back towards anarchy?

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They did so against the background of grim predictions of climate change in the next century, including the possibility that the world's forests could themselves become producers rather than consumers of carbon dioxide.

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No matter how good the employer agency or the background check, things happen and people can change when their financial situations worsen.

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For Mintz, a 39-year-old accountant and former chief executive of a cooperage (wine-barrel-making business) and Twelftree, 38, with a background in construction and small-scale wine exporting, the change is music to their ears.

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Essentially, the only major change added in by Sprint and Kyocera is Eco Mode, a power management system on the Torque that blocks background data connections for nonessential apps.

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