No wonder why people were genuinely saddened to see Jobs step down last month.
Congress did step in last month to undo furloughs for air traffic controllers after a week of coast-to-coast flight delays, and lawmakers have found money for meat inspectors.
The nine ordinary members of the Polish central bank's monetary policy council can look back proudly on their work as they step down this month and next, their six-year terms at an end.
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Squeezed between these two great powers, southeast Asian nations will come under growing pressure to take sides unless they can stay united, said Mr Pitsuwan, a Thai diplomat who will step down next month after five years as the head of Asean.
In a significant step, Medicare launched last month a pilot project at 17 YMCA sites involving 10, 000 qualifying participants over the next three years.
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My next step: a seven-month stay in a rehabilitation hospital.
He thinks he took a big step toward that goal this month with the announcement of Reebok as the title sponsor for the race series in a multi-year partnership.
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In the papers, she claims that candidates are required to carry out regular canvassing in a ward and make contact with 300 individuals by door-step or telephone canvassing each month.
Laying off 1, 200 full-time employees this month represents a first step.
Once endorsed, proposals on how to cut Greek debt and provide additional financing can be sent back to each member assembly for approval, a step that could be completed by month-end.
Last month it took the first step towards that goal when its subsidiary NNB Generation Company was granted a nuclear site licence by the Office for Nuclear Regulation.
Less than a month later, Musharraf did step down as army chief, but only after transferring many powers -- including the ability to lift the emergency order -- to the presidency and handpicking his successor to lead Pakistan's military, which controls its nuclear arsenal.
Earlier this month, researchers made a small step toward understanding a gastrointestinal ailment that typically affects children with autism.
Last month, Ford said it would step up its product plan for Europe, introducing 15 new global vehicles in the next five years.
Frankel's next challenge will be the Juddmonte Stakes at York later this month, which will see him step up from the mile distance for the first time in his career.
Earlier this month the government took a bold step when special police nabbed Colonel Veselin Sljivancanin, who had been indicted for the deaths of more than 200 Croats captured when the Serbs took the Croatian town of Vukovar in 1991.
Batsman Jonathan Trott and paceman Steven Finn step up from incremental contracts to full 12-month deals.
Unusual in that therapy here is strictly one-on-one (60 hours for the month) and non-12-step-based.
But the ethics committee won't formally rule until later this month, and Democrats say Gingrich should step aside until then.
Mrs Mensch attracted a lot of column inches earlier this month when she announced her intention to step down as MP for Corby, saying she was finding it increasingly difficult to juggle career and family.
One component is setting up a mechanism where people who just can't afford their mortgage right now are able to renegotiate with banks, and the banks lower their interest, and the homeowner assures that they're going to make a commitment to pay a certain amount every month, and the government helps to step in to bridge the gap.
Daniel Carp will step down as chief executive at the end of the month, and as chairman at the end of the year.
But Google also offers an option that remembers verification on any given PC for a month, so users can skip the extra step while still periodically checking to see if their account has been hijacked.
Musharraf, who seized power in a military coup in 1999 but was forced to step down nearly a decade later, was greeted last month by only a couple thousand people at the airport in the southern city of Karachi when his plane landed from Dubai.
Last month the American Jewish Committee took an important first step in this direction by publishing a paper by Prof.
The McCain campaign has said that it plans to step up attacks on the Democratic presidential candidate with just a month left before the November general election.
Algerian gas and electricity company, CEEG opened the tender late last month to local and international outfits, marking one step towards a progressive national goal of 650MW by 2015 and building towards 22, 000MW by 2030, with output almost evenly split between domestic and export demand.
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Last month Disney chief executive Robert Iger announced that he will step down from his CEO position in 2015.
Whatever your desired financial state, try coming up with one small action step that can bring you closer to that vision in the coming month, and give yourself fewer reasons to worry.
Meanwhile, Spain, an even larger problem for the euro-zone, accepted a direct bailout for its banks a month ago, and was expected to take the next step of officially requesting a bailout of its government debt, required before the EU can come to its rescue.
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