But 1974 was a tough year on Wall Street as retail investors bailed out of the market, producing a string of mergers and bankruptcies.

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Vale made a promising start to the campaign, reaching the third round of the Carling Cup after victories over both Sheffield clubs, and producing a string of consistent displays in League Two, although without often troubling the top seven.

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President Assad has set in motion a string of concrete measures and mechanisms to prepare the "national dialogue" aimed at producing a political solution, such as guarantees that returning opposition figures can come and go freely.

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