• "We want Britain to be the best country in the world to grow old in - but we have a lot of work to do, " he said.

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  • The hugely emotive occasion had begun in moving scenes at Old Trafford in respect to the 23 - of which eight were players from the Old Trafford club - who died in the Munich air disaster on 6 February 1958.

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  • Carmel and go back to live with his mother in the old house in Tel Ilan, to live off the rental income from the two apartments in Haifa that he owned, and to devote himself to his hobby, building model airplanes.

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  • It led him to support foxhunting and to resume smoking in old age, just to defy the ban.

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  • However, following a move to Sunderland as an 18-year-old in 2001, Bellion's career faltered when he switched to Old Trafford in 2003.

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  • Same-store sales dropped 9.2% from the same quarter a year ago, as ongoing weakness in wireless services dating to a 15-month old struggle in a transition to Cingular from Verizon led to a 25% decline in sales of wireless handsets.

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  • Same-store sales dropped 9.2% from the same quarter a year ago, as ongoing weakness in wireless services dating to a 15-month old struggle in a transition to Cingular from Verizon (nyse: VZ - news - people ) led to a 25% decline in sales of wireless handsets.

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  • The latest star, El Juli, had to fight in Latin America before he was old enough to appear in a Spanish ring.

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  • Another survey from Wells Fargo found that 30% of middle-class American believe they will need to work until they are at least 80-years-old in order to retire comfortably.

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  • There was enough life, and more importantly, pride left in the old bones to muster a 19th five-wicket-haul against Pakistan in his last Test match, in Antigua, when a defeat beckoned.

    BBC: King Courtney reigns

  • Apple is not resting upon its past success, but rather keeps adding new capability to its old offerings in order to migrate customers to its new platforms.

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  • Never mind the WWII-style evacuee dress we've also just had to buy for the class assembly - I remember going to school wrapped in an old dust sheet to be a shepherd.

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  • We should be willing to challenge old assumptions in order to lessen the prospects of such violence in the future. (Applause.) But what we cannot do is use this tragedy as one more occasion to turn on each other. (Applause.) That we cannot do. (Applause.) That we cannot do.

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  • After speeding through qualification and the quarter-final, Gillings finished third in her semi-final run, leaving the 24-year-old to challenge in the small final for places fifth to eighth.

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  • Instead, most suppliers have meekly caved in to their old-line distributors and refused to sell online.

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  • Glenn Hutchins of Silver Lake thinks the tech sector is now in a similar condition to the old economy in America in the early 1980s, which is when private equity first started to have an impact, by restructuring and consolidating many industries.

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  • In Slovakia, fans lit candles for their star player Pavol Demitra, while Czechs paid similar respects in the Old Town Square in Prague to honour their three compatriots killed in the crash: Josef Vasicek, Karel Rachunek and Jan Marek.

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  • This was in stark contrast to old-fashioned bookshops such as Foyles, which made no concessions to the customer in terms of service or comfort.

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  • The plan to return Askernish in South Uist to Old Tom Morris's design of 1892 follows a visit by experts to the Western Isles last December.

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  • One effect of such an honor, in addition to giving a grand old man overdue recognition in his dying days, is to inspire younger thinkers to make such intellectual contributions.

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  • Some 4.9 million viewers tuned in to see old and new cast members coexist in the posh Beverly Hills ZIP code, leading the fledging network to a rare full-night victory among adults aged 18 to 34, according to preliminary Nielsen results.

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  • The whole point of the 1996 welfare reform law was to give states broad discretion in revising the old Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) welfare program.

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  • Another expensive option that is being actively canvassed is a scheme to subsidise the scrapping of old cars in order to get the most polluting vehicles off the road.

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  • The alarms rang in the 18th minute when both Jose Enrique and Coloccini failed to clear under pressure from Lee in the left-corner before the ball fell to Bolton old-boy Nolan who handled in his attempt to ease the pressure.

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  • This induces a tendency in many organizations to leave old rules in place.

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  • That said, when the kid in those old Westerns tries to take out the fastest gun in the West, it usually ends badly for him.

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  • If she had been a tougher negotiator, could Keaney have convinced her bosses in her old job to let her work less?

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