The stock move was echoed by similar gyrations in other markets, where oil momentarily lost 0.7% before recovering, and the CBOE Market Volatility Index, the "fear gauge" known as the VIX, spiked 9% before falling back to its level just a few minutes earlier, down 5% on the day.

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Health workers in the capital, Dushanbe, fear another typhoid epidemic, which last year put almost 9, 000 people in hospital and killed about 100.

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The economy emerged from a double-dip recession between August and October last year with strong growth of 0.9%, but a number of economists fear it could have contracted again in the final quarter.

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Other issues that caused problems were a lack of required skills or education (20 percent), competition with younger colleagues (18 percent) and employers' fear that returning workers would take another extended absence (9 percent).

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Some have been told that is impossible to stop the notices and been forced to pay up money they have already paid and hope it is refunded when their case is finally attended to, while others obtain varying hold times on the notices of 9 to 14 weeks and then live in fear that the collections will start again before their cases are settled.

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While last year, 9% of respondents said their biggest stressor was fear of being fired from their job, this year only 4% said that was their chief concern.

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Child-orientated satellite channels expect a 9% drop, while commercial channels aimed entirely at children fear a 15% fall.

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