Bell played all round a full delivery, and a dejected Collingwood, who has scored just 63 runs for club and country this summer, was flat-footed as he nicked to slip.

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Yet if not even a framework for discussing cuts in agricultural tariffs and subsidies is in place by this summer, efforts to conclude the Doha round are likely to slip well into 2006 or beyond.

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For most of us, longer summer days may mean that dinnertime, maybe the kids' bedtime, slip to a later hour.

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