Look for Beats to step up efforts to curtail counterfeiters, as the headphones remain a popular target of bootleggers.

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Over the past three years, China has been raising the RRR to curtail loan growth, and this cut is the first step to promoting loan growth.

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Putin, the former KGB officer who has worked to both stabilize Russia's economy and curtail dissent, held the presidency for eight years before term limits forced him to step down in 2008.

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