• At talks in Islamabad in November, officials from Afghanistan's High Peace Council had urged the release of Mullah Turabi, but the prisoners freed then were said to have been mid-level operatives, plus Anwar ul-Haq, a former militant commander in eastern Afghanistan.

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  • Combine that enlightening declaration with some sentimental sweeping strings, the predictable key change mid-way through, plus a lot of vibrato and you have the usual ingredients for a formulaic hit.

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  • With the ongoing economic and related job woes, one group that seems to have more difficulty are those in the mid-career stages, particularly those in the 50-plus age group.

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  • But there seems to be broad consensus among industry observers that average returns on equity through the economic cycle will be in the low- to mid-teens henceforth, well down on the 20%-plus achieved before the current crisis.

    ECONOMIST: Banks will still make money, just less of it

  • Compare that with the 3m-plus of the mid-1980s, or the near-3m of December 1992.

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  • General Manager Brian Cashman says that as long as Teixeira is hitting 30 homers, 100 RBI, and putting up a mid-.800s on-base plus slugging percentage, that's more than enough.

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  • As a result of all this cash up for grabs, plus the opportunity for a mid-level Tour player to make a seven figure annual income without ever actually wining, there will always be a crop of new young guns following in the footsteps of McIlroy and Bubba Watson.

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  • Twenty-five-year contracts signed in the early and mid-1990s had management fees as high as 3.5% of total revenues, plus 6-10% of gross operating profit.

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  • After a few undistinguished months of Reading Aloud on the Six O'Clock News, he became a presenter in the mid-80s, working first on the regional news programme London Plus (known within the building as "Sod Off Kent") and then on the BBC's Breakfast Time.

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  • Interest rates could come down as early as the first quarter of 2012, with the new leadership offering up targeted fiscal incentives for small and mid-sized companies to encourage job growth as the economy slows from 10%-plus growth to around 9% next year, according to International Monetary Fund GDP forecasts.

    FORBES: BlackRock Doubts China Economy In For Hard Landing

  • Mainframe systems were displaced by PC-based and mid-range systems such as Portia, InvestOne, CAMRA, PAM, Axyis, HiPort, Eagle Global Plus and Dimension.

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  • Further, the MSM8930 S4 Plus chipset has integrated LTE support, making it possible for Qualcomm to bring LTE to high volume mid-tier smartphones that will soon be making their way to China Mobile.

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