But those plans may be in limbo after Zubeidat Tsarnaev said she'd called an ambulance Thursday to take her husband to a hospital in Makhachkala.

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And that in turn is why many people fear that, having bent over backwards to limbo under the Maastricht bars, Italy may yet return to its habitual posture of happy-go-lucky indiscipline.

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Tamerlan Tsarnaev's body was released by the state medical examiner May 1 and has been in limbo since.

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News that a significant number of community councils are in limbo - and that the bulk are unelected - may not be a surprise.

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First, Dennis Hastert may be getting out of some political limbo.

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With a British general election to be called in the first half of 2010, Lisbon supporters fear that Mr Klaus may withhold his signature long enough to leave Lisbon in limbo until a Conservative government takes power in Britain.

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But the financing market for leveraged buyouts is getting squirmy, the music business itself is harder than ever to value, and with new tenanting prospects in double-dip-recession limbo as an ebullient recovery in office-building investment slows, the tower may become part of the collateral damage caused by the shuddering fall of EMI.

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It is also possible that a new offer on devolved powers to Scotland may surface, superseding the current Scotland Bill, which has been in limbo for rather a long time.

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