Abraham Idrijani, a Philippine-based representative for the clansmen, said Kiram has ordered the group in Sabah to observe a unilateral ceasefire starting Thursday afternoon by holding their current position and taking a defensive posture.

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Perez adds that the current practice of health screenings for certain diseases, starting at a specific age, will become a thing of the past.

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Indeed the current sovereign-debt jitters may be a sign that creditors are starting to assert themselves again, and demanding higher yields from less prudent governments.

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Current BT Infinity customers will be able to switch to the faster products by starting a new contract, at no extra cost.

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And they are ready to make a change, whether at their current employers or by jumping ship and starting their own initiatives.

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There would have to be a big negative impact on the refining industry starting 4 years from now to justify the current selloff.

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He reckons that starting from current levels of volatility, eliminating the business cycle would increase average well-being by the equivalent of a fall in the unemployment rate of only 0.2 percentage points.

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Colombia, a country which was starting to look like a failed state during the late 1990s, is generally moving in the right direction under the current government.

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Starting from scratch, it wants to build a central register that will hold the name, date of birth, current and former addresses, nationality, passport number and national insurance details of everybody residing in the country longer than three months.

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