In opinion polls in mid June, the prime minister's popularity sank below 20% after enjoying a brief lift following a fund-raising scandal that forced the DPJ's leader to resign.
Or that, in mid-1991, former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi would be assassinated?
Italians responded heroically in the mid-1990s when the then prime minister, Romano Prodi, called for sacrifices to clean up the national accounts to prepare for euro membership.
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He acquired the funds through unlawful activities in the gas and energy sector in Ukraine, where he was the Energy Minister in the mid-90s, and then prime minister between 1996 and 1997.
There it could generate a massive load of spores and travel to prime soyabean acreage in the mid-west, destroying most of the American crop.
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As the Prime Minister prepares for this critical mid-term conference, I will have an opportunity to question him about subjects of concern to the West Midlands.
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In Poland Jaroslaw Kaczynski, prime minister for 16 months from mid-2006, and his late twin brother Lech, who was president from 2005 to 2010, picked spectacular fights at home and abroad.
Since his prime-time talk show debuted in mid-September, NBC's already disappointing 10 p.m. audience fell another 30%.
Mid Bedfordshire MP Ms Dorries demanded an apology from the prime minister and said she was considering legal action against Mr McBride.
Berlusconi, widely expected to return as the prime minister of Italy following parliamentary elections in mid-April, is calling for a group of Italian investors to make a bid for Alitalia and prevent it from falling in the hands of Franco-Dutch airline Air France-KLM.
The eight, including Robert Karofsky , Morgan's U.S. head of cash equity trading, are jumping ship after Morgan Stanley's equities group posted the best revenues since mid-2001, driven by success in Morgan's prime brokerage group.
He abandoned his citizenship in an emotional, sweeping open letter addressed to French Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault that was published in mid-December in the Sunday paper Le Journal du Dimanche.
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When Benazir Bhutto, then prime minister, sent paramilitaries to regain control of Karachi in mid-1995, they responded more brutally still.
NATO's planned action, Russia 's prime minister, Yevgeny Primakov, cancelled a trip to Washington in mid-flight.
And Prime Minister Hun Sen, who has been in power since the mid-1980s, has portrayed the U.N. recognition as a national triumph.
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, who has been in power since the mid-1980s, has portrayed the U.N. recognition as a national triumph in the run-up to the general elections.
In mid-July, a leadership race among the ruling Liberal Democratic Party will begin, for the succession to the prime minister, Junichiro Koizumi, who retires in September.
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