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  • And I want to talk a little bit about why I decided to run for President in the first place, back in 2007-2008.

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  • The governing coalition may still have time to get its act together, and could even win some of the run-off elections for mayor that take place on June 18th across the country.

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  • This little breather allows for some short term profit taking to take place so the stock can be ready for another run.

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  • The public outrage at the freeze was what toppled Mr de la Rua but, for the time being, many of the restrictions remain in place to prevent a run on the banking system.

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  • Finally, if the acquirer and target companies can agree on who will run the combined company and put in place the systems, processes, and culture needed for it to appear seamless to customers on the day the deal closes, then the deal passes the integration test.

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  • Across this country in offices and construction sites and classrooms competitive juices run amuck as the Fantasy Draft for the 2012 season takes place.

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  • To these may be added a familiar mixture of dissent, confusion and parsimony among those who took up arms for Kosovo last year and who must now run the place with the consent of Russia and China.

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  • That will run into opposition from the interests that lobbied for the policy in the first place.

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  • So instead of bidding for the Olympics, just give Kenyans a place to run, to kick a ball, shoot hoops, or swim.

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  • Tevez rounded off the scoring with a fine strike late on, his eighth goal in the last seven games for his side who move up to a challenging sixth and set for a run at Champions League qualification promised by Mancini when he took charge in place of the sacked Mark Hughes.

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  • He made an early, unsuccessful run for Congress in 1978, then spent most of the next decade trying to carve out a place of the oil industry, like his father had.

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  • After a while, Mr. Haggerty said, he left the medical tent, once the woman had been treated by medics, looking for a safe place to wait until joining three other New Hampshire troopers who had run the race with colleagues from Massachusetts.

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  • This will reduce pressure on schools to improve their performance, create a perverse incentive for parents to send their children to run-of-the-mill schools to secure a university place, and guarantee that many poorly prepared students will have a miserable time at university.

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  • Hussey, who averaged 91.60 in the 2006-07 Ashes and a mainstay of the side for several years, has found his place threatened by a poor run of form.

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  • "We have turned Irbil from a run-down and shabby place into a little Dubai, " Mahmoud Othman, an MP for the Kurdish Alliance, said proudly.

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  • The action such as it is takes place in a turn-of-the-century school for servants, run by the creepy Herr Benjamenta (Gottfreid John) and his sister (Alice Krige), who is beautiful, nervous, and remote.

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  • But Bopara, whose place for the decisive final Ashes Test is under particular threat after a poor run of scores, did nothing to enhance his chances of retaining his spot for The Oval, edging only his seventh ball to Kartik at second slip for just 1.

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  • Lyndon Johnson chose not to run for another term in the 1968 election, though based on the revival of the conservative coalition that took place in 1966 and his growing focus on taxes, inflation and deficits, it is unlikely he would have obtained much more in the way of bold initiatives such as Medicare.

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  • Our education deficit is too wide to ignore. (Applause.) To kick these problems down the road for another four years or eight years, that would be to continue the same irresponsibility that led us to this point in the first place. (Applause.) And I did not run for President to pass on our problems to the next generation.

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  • As to the secret funds, set up over 50 years ago and totalling FFr394m for this year, they have their place, he thinks: just over half goes to run the secret services, the rest being shared between the presidency and the prime minister's office to boost (in crisp cash) the pay packets of the supposedly overworked and underpaid, from senior ministerial advisers down to secretaries and cooks.

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  • On-street charges were introduced on Sundays in the town in January, although they have been in place at council-run car parks for several years.

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