Angelo, another American, will lead Latin American operations and South African Johan van Zyl will take charge of the African region.

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Although the exact mechanism is still not entirely understood, it turns out that illuminating the liquid crystal, applying a voltage across a small region of it, and then turning off the light source causes a small amount of charge to be stored in that region.

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Blues coach Dai Young has hailed Williams' influence in the region's charge into the EDF Energy Cup semi-finals and European quarter-finals.

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In a big company, that might mean taking charge of a division or a region.

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However, Interpol's Secretary General Ronald Noble defended Singapore and south-east Asian countries from the charge that they had allowed the region to become a hub for international match-fixing.

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He subsequently joined the Pentagon as director for Asian and Pacific affairs, in charge of devising foreign policy for the region.

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By this time London was also in charge of the KPMG audit practice for the region so any partner that was assigned in his place was also his subordinate.

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She's in charge of revenue collection for the Finance Ministry in the Lower Shabelle region, and had just driven from Mogadishu in her small white car with a couple of armed guards.

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