Most important of all, the government is drafting a law to make it harder for Albanians to keep some 1m guns looted from police stations and barracks during the anarchy, and from mid-September it will step up a campaign to seize them.

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Mr Martinez, who has been elected seven times (holding office on and off since 1981), had to step down in the mid-1980s when federal extortion and racketeering charges were brought against him.

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He has a few suggestions for mid-career (or aspiring to a mid-career) print reporters in this handy 10-step program for weekend Forbes readers.

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After a nervous start against the rampant Kevin Pietersen, Beer's day, and maybe career, took a step forward when Cook mis-timed a lofted drive to mid-on on 46.

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However, the mid-range sedan's platform (underbody structure and chassis) is entirely Proton, a major step for the carmaker, whose other models are based on Mitsubishi or Citroen platforms.

CNN: Local Win, Global Worries

They backpedalled to the mid-term elections, bemoaning that we downed the campaign ad Kool-Aid and fell in lock step with what we already believed to be true, right and good.

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By mid-summer he had taken on the Test captaincy too, following Nasser Hussain's decision to step down, and after securing a 2-2 draw with the combative South Africans, led England to six successive series victories, culminating in the epic 2005 Ashes triumph.

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At a breakfast reception in the swanky Fullerton Hotel in downtown Singapore in mid-April, Thomas Kloet, the head of the Singapore stock exchange, and a group of executives step onto a dais.

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