The police in New York are under the mayor's control, and their recent achievements in cutting crime are one of Rudy Giuliani's proudest boasts.

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Shortly after, the Swiss central bank announced it was cutting rates and injecting money in order to control the Swiss franc, appreciating strongly given European weakness.

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They want borrowing powers, control over company taxation (perhaps with a view to a tax-cutting strategy) and control over the Crown Estate in Scotland (which has implications for what goes on in coastal waters and harbours).

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Yahoo is also making efforts to control costs, by cutting its workforce, which should improve profitability in the short term.

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The chancellor is wary of cutting loose: in Treasury eyes, one of the advantages of the Bank's control of interest rates (handed over by Mr Brown in 1997) is the discipline it exerts on fiscal policy.

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Ferrari's Felipe Massa lost control on a couple of occasions and ended up deep in the gravel at Turn Nine, before cutting along the grass to rejoin the action.

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