His business is now a semiautonomous piece of the New York City firm Tocqueville Asset Management.

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To keep the acquired management teams happy, each brand was allowed to run itself in a semiautonomous way.

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Zari is from Bajur, part of Pakistan's semiautonomous tribal region bordering Afghanistan.

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The Kurds want to incorporate oil-rich Kirkuk into their semiautonomous region.

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Umar was arrested in Pakistan's Mohmand Agency, one of seven semiautonomous tribal agencies along the 1, 500-mile porous border that Pakistan shares with Afghanistan, intelligence officials said.

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The probe into the Boston attacks has also been focused some 5, 500 miles away in the semiautonomous Russian republic of Dagestan, where the suspects' parents live.

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Mr. Hashemi had backed efforts by the leaderships of two provinces, Salahuddin and Diyala, to set up semiautonomous regions, a process authorized by Iraq's constitution and exemplified by the relative peace and prosperity of the Kurdish region.

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Francis Lun, managing director of Lyncean Holdings in Hong Kong, said the accuracy of the export number was in doubt, based on what is known about the value of Chinese goods passing through Hong Kong, a semiautonomous Chinese territory.

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Mohamed Abdulrahman, director of the maritime force that led the mission, said Monday that the rescued hostages -- who hailed from Yemen, India, Pakistan, Ghana, Sudan and the Philippines -- were in good health at a military base in Puntland, a semiautonomous region of Somalia.

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