• Yet the impasse over the governor-general has exposed the dangers of stubborn resistance to the constitutional evolution that many Australians would support.

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  • It also requires monthly reports to Congress and the creation of an inspector-general over the programme.

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  • Negotiations on a separate settlement over foreclosures with attorneys-general from all 50 states continue and could yet result in big financial penalties.

    ECONOMIST: American banks

  • The probe has cast a shadow over the four-star general's distinguished military career, and delayed his appointment as Nato's next supreme allied commander, set for early 2013.

    BBC: Gen John R. Allen

  • The issue seemed to be their eccentricity and general over-the-topness.

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  • Members of the Joint Committee headed by Mr Horea-Dorin Uioreanu shared concerns with the Director-General over trends towards uniformity imposed by globalization that was putting cultures and language in danger.

    UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

  • Once the withdrawal is over, the secretary-general says the force should be strengthened again with the addition of two mechanised infantry battalions, bringing the total number of peacekeepers to just less than 8, 000.

    BBC: Call for more Lebanon peacekeepers

  • The profile shows that there were 513 alcohol-related attendances to the emergency department at Borders General Hospital over a five-month period, including 16 people who were 15 years or younger.

    BBC: Alcohol

  • Like a growing number of observers, Mr Eustice, now a Tory MP, believes politicians have over-estimated the power of the Murdoch empire and the press in general - and that the days of cosying up to powerful interests could, and should, be over.

    BBC: Nothing personal: Politicians and their media friends

  • Critics said the prospect of a no-hands T-Ray search raised general privacy concerns and fears over so-called false positives where an object on a person's body could be misread to be a weapon.

    WSJ: Police Test New Scanner

  • Certainly, financial assets in general are over-priced, especially those, such as shares in technology companies, that are seen as a source of future growth and profits.

    ECONOMIST: Buttonwood

  • Meanwhile, Ros Altmann, director general of over-50s organisation Saga and a former government adviser on pensions, said ministers could face a costly legal challenge if they did not make changes.

    BBC: Government defiant over women's pension age change

  • The UNESCO Director-General handed over to Marta Suplicy the designation to the city of Rio de Janeiro as Cultural Heritage, bestowed during the 37th World Heritage UNESCO Committee Meeting, which took place in Saint Petersburg, Russia, in July 2012.

    UNESCO: Minister Marta Suplicy meets UNESCO Director-General

  • Executives--and human beings in general--tend to either over- or underestimate the importance and impact of obstacles.

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  • Shares across the world have risen well over 10% in general over the past four or five weeks - and are significantly higher even on European markets.

    BBC: Italy on the brink

  • Some are general, like over-zealous pharmaceutical marketing or our culture-wide love-affair with winning at all cost.

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  • Hassan, unlike many other chief executives, had the guts to personally handle negotiations with the Department of Justice 's Office of the Inspector General over manufacturing slip-ups.

    FORBES: Fix It, Fred

  • But if it is not introduced in the coming year, the government would face the prospect of trying to over-ride the Lords in the run-up to the 2015 General Election - just when ministers would much rather be focusing on bread-and-butter issues, not abstruse constitutional matters.

    BBC: An uncertain future for Mr Clegg's reforms

  • In 1971, Austrian Kurt Waldheim took over as U.N. secretary-general after U That retired.

    CNN: Tuesday,

  • In 1965, Ms. Brown took over Cosmopolitan, then a flagging general-interest magazine, and transformed it to appeal to women.

    WSJ: Cosmopolitan Editor Helen Gurley Brown Dies at Age 90

  • Prof Coffey is among several leading UK scientists who wrote a letter expressing concern over an earlier recommendation by the advocate-general of the court.

    BBC: European court ruling 'threatens stem cell work'

  • As it happens, that is the same question that dogged Ronald Reagan in 1980, right up until he won a smashing general-election victory over President Jimmy Carter.

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  • The consultancy's findings have been handed over to the Cypriot parliament and the attorney-general, Petros Clerides.

    BBC: Key data missing at troubled Bank of Cyprus - inquiry

  • If anything, I suspect libertarians are over-represented among the intelligentsia relative to the general public.

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  • This casts doubt on whether the Kindle tablet can cross over and compete in the larger, general-purpose tablet market.

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  • The Director-General also expressed deep concern over reoccurring attacks on journalists reporting on conflicts and social movements in the Middle East and Northern Africa.

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  • If the tribunal rules in favor of El Salvador, activists are hopeful it would address some of the concerns over the use of investor-state arbitration in general.

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  • Mr Fujii, say people who have spoken to him, was fed up with the power wielded over Mr Hatoyama by Ichiro Ozawa, secretary-general of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ).

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  • Carson gained control of the show's tapes--except for the episodes that aired from 1962 and 1972, which were erased to save on storage costs--from General Electric 's NBC in a host of unprecedented negotiations over the course of his 30-year tenure.

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