At home, he may run into more constraints (as second-term presidents tend to) if he essays bold policies, such as introducing retirement savings accounts or trying to simplify the tax code.

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President Bashar Assad not only struggles to contain unrest at home, but he may also be losing support in the region.

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He married the 27-year-old Chan on May 20 in a private ceremony at their home, during the same week that he turned 28 and stock for the social network site began trading publicly.

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Ledley dropped a hint that he may not be at the Bluebirds next season at the club's 'welcome home' party in Cardiff.

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He may not have made a lot of money, but Lomax's cultural impact at home and abroad is incalculable.

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In May 1985, after Abou El Fadl completed his junior year at Yale, he returned home to Cairo for the summer.

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Owen may not yet stand sporting comparison with Spitz and Korbut, but he looked at ease in the home of sporting greatness in Munich.

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Mr Demetriades claimed to have an "excellent" relationship with the minister of finance and a "good" one with the president, though he stressed throughout the interview how little room for manoeuvre he had had since taking the job last May, and how sidelined he had been by a bailout process that had been dictated by politicians at home and abroad.

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"Wrexham people were well aware of the situation here, many may have stayed at home because they didn't want to vote for Labour, " he said.

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Instead he survived at his home in Tripoli, Libya's capital, for almost three years, dying on May 20th.

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