In addition to Spain, the June 17th Greek elections are now just about a week away.
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But things seemed to brighten for the prime minister on June 17th.
For another thing, Egypt's electoral commission had taken a whole excruciating week after the polls closed on June 17th to declare a final count.
But Mr Miller says his resignation on May 2nd is final, leaving it unclear who might represent Poland at the European Union summit on June 17th-18th.
On June 17th, the Bipartisan Policy Centre (an outfit led by Mr Daschle and several other former Senate majority leaders of both parties) released its own health-reform blueprint.
There was this sense shortly after June 17th when same-sex couples could begin marrying and did began marrying that no one would vote to take away rights that were clearly established.
Take the case of Yektan Turkyilmaz, an internationally acclaimed Turkish scholar who was arrested in Armenia on June 17th on charges of seeking to smuggle antique books out of the country.
According to an opinion poll on May 13th, Syriza would win 20.5% of the vote and come first in the June 17th election, just ahead of the pro-euro New Democracy (19.4%).
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But in the white paper detailing the new legislation, which the Administration released on June 17th, all the new authority to regulate firms that posed systemic risk was vested in the Federal Reserve.
There has been growing pressure on Mr Immelt to offload GE Capital, both from shareholders and now, it seems, judging by the proposed reforms of financial regulation announced on June 17th, from the government.
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On June 17th the Wall Street Journal reported that one of India's biggest conglomerates, Anil Ambani's Reliance group, was in talks to form a film-making partnership with Steven Spielberg's DreamWorks studio, owned by Viacom, a media giant.
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On June 17th Renato Schifani, speaker of the Senate, read a letter from Mr Berlusconi backing an amendment proposed by two senators that would stop for a year all trials for crimes committed before June 2002, except for those the government deems most serious.
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Is all this enough to secure a new treaty at the Amsterdam summit on June 16th-17th?
The main reason why Mr Hollande is in no mood for immediate controversy is that he faces legislative elections on June 10th and 17th.
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The British, though treading carefully, are clearly looking for a way to bring the ratification process to a halt, most likely at the EU summit on June 16th and 17th.
Policymakers at America's Federal Reserve may wish that they could give the markets a summer break, having raised the federal funds rate to 5.25% on June 29th, the 17th increase in as many meetings.
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On June 22, 1971, I had celebrated my 17th birthday in Africa with my father.
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