Worse, the Strong Bolivar weakened after the devaluation on the black market, falling to about 25 per dollar from about 10 per dollar last October.

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By the time of his death Mr Terre'Blanche, who once embodied the threat of a race war in South Africa, was a fringe ideologue, more of a figure of ridicule than of terror after serving a prison sentence for trying to murder a black security guard, and falling off his horse at a rally.

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Initial market reaction was tepid, with major U.S. equity indexes falling marginally into negative territory and then shyly moving back to the black.

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Night was falling, and Siu offered me a lift back to the station in his black Lexus S.U.V.

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Knowing such itineraries might help us to better understand the nature of massive die-offs (thousands of black birds falling dead out of the sky, for example), or of the itineraries of bio-invasives such as the Burmese Pythons in the Everglades.

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But not every young black American wants to be an athlete and presumably one of the main reasons for the falling numbers of top-class African-American boxers isn't that they're linemen or running backs in the NFL, or centres in the NBA. Rather, it's because they've taken Ali at his word.

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