Other Republicans are optimistic the wave of recent retirements offers the GOP a chance to move beyond its old guard and recruit fresh faces to inject the party with new energy.

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One MWC exhibitor GENBAND, a U.S.-based company that provides technology which can be used to create remote working environments, said Yahoo's move was understandable, but the problems it faces could be overcome with better technology.

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For Song to fulfill his dream, he must overcome the same challenge that faces all Asian contract manufacturers aiming to move up the value chain.

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Mr Philps said the men were held for between one and three days, with much of that time spent sitting on the ground blindfolded, mostly with their faces between their knees, not being allowed to move and not given anything to eat.

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The stage on which we women are instructed to play, fingers waggling in our faces, is often so constricting it's a wonder we can move at all.

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But it is not clear whether the move will help to address the country's worsening energy crisis, since it faces a daily shortfall of around 2, 000 megawatts of electricity - or about one-third of its total requirement.

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Freely adapting Roald Dahl's 1970 children's book, Anderson creates an endearingly tactile fairy-tale thrift-shop universe, with quaintly painted backdrops, cotton balls for smoke, and a family of foxes who move in such deliberate fashion that, up close, you can see the hairs on their faces bristle and jerk.

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The Bush Administration faces a critical, delicatechallenge in Europe, particularly regarding France: the European Union's move to create a European rapid reaction force, a military entity made up of troops and equipment from various European nations.

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