Treaty talks came to nothing, and the British withdrew their protection, opening the way for Ibn Saud, the king of the Nejd, to conquer Hussein's kingdom of Hijaz in 1924, and launch Wahhabi rule over Saudi Arabia.

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This is the day that Zocor, the second-best selling drug in the country, loses patent protection, opening the way for cheaper generic versions--potentially saving consumers and health plans billions while cutting into sales for drugmaker Merck and rivals like Pfizer and AstraZeneca.

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As a consequence, all six data protection bodies were now opening new investigations into Google and how it handled privacy.

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But the drug will lose its patent protection in 2002, opening the market to copycat generic drugs sold at far lower prices.

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Opening the debate on her amendment, Lady Meacher said it would provide protection for vulnerable people who had "suffered unacceptably at the hands of a bailiff".

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But these are static measures ill-suited to crises, when prices fall so fast that, by the time the protection is activated, it is already too late: the financial equivalent of opening a parachute too close to the ground.

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