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  • It did not happen at the World Bank either: Washington leaned on the members of the developed world to back their man Jim Yong Kim, the former president of Dartmouth College.

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  • He and the man have a conversation about the state of the world while the man eats his sandwich (roast beef, same as always) and drinks his coffee (black, same as always).

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  • Jean Mazaurelle, the head of the World Bank in Mauritania and the man in charge of overseeing the debt-relief programme, blames bad management rather than lack of cash for many of the country's problems.

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  • The reform may challenge the empire of the world's richest man, Carlos Slim, whose America Movil company controls two-thirds of the phone market.

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  • Manuel Uribe, a former mechanic, entered the Guinness Book of Records as the world's heaviest man when he weighed 560kg - the weight of a small truck.

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  • This flies in the face of natural seeps which, the world over, are many times the volume of any man-made leaks.

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  • But in the four years of Bush senior and of Carter and the eight years of Clinton -- as well as the two terms of the man who left the world stage Tuesday, George Walker Bush -- each found their success often overwhelmed by challenges and failure.

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  • Partly it's the way of the world, because no man-made NFC or RFID security barrier can ever be truly impervious.

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  • Puma issued a profit warning and posted a sharp drop in quarterly earnings as the backer of the world's fastest man struggled to transform high-profile sponsorships into robust financial results.

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  • After the stridently messy Cookie and a few forays into spacey jazz, the recent The World Has Made Me the Man of My Dreams includes guest appearances by everyone from Pat Metheny to Oumou Sangare.

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  • Warne has said he is considering his future in the game despite leading Australia to the World Cup title with man of the match awards in the semifinal and final.

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  • It took the passing of Steve Jobs for the world to realize its love affair with the man and the products of his vision.

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  • All the same, it is the immensity of the task, not the obscurity of the man, that should make the world nervous.

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  • And in 2004 he won the rare double of the Golden Boot, awarded to the world's leading player, and Man of Steel, which is awarded to the best player in the British Super League.

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  • She only became the world's oldest person last week, after the death of a 115-year-old man in Puerto Rico, the Guinness Book of World Records said.

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  • Mr Ozawa was the epitome of the modern ideas-man, who understood that the world had changed with the end of the cold war, and that a cringing Japan should change with it.

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  • The narrator sings about a man who slowly takes control of the world "with a face of an angel and the heart of a beast, " and as the man's promises lead to ruin, Norman's voice becomes increasingly defeated.

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  • Many people will also be ready to believe that Osama bin Laden, the hitherto obscure Saudi dissident now elevated to the status of the world's most dangerous man, is connected with the camps, and that he played a part in the two embassy bombings.

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  • Shane Williams, the 2008 world player of the year, was named man-of-the-match after he was handed a start in place of Luke Fitzgerald.

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  • Huntsville, in the north, boasts some of the nation's highest technology, rippling out from the space industry that began with the arrival after the second world war of the Nazis' rocket-man, Wernher von Braun.

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  • Construction is underway, for example, on the World, a grouping of 300 man-made islands shaped to resemble the earth.

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  • Divide and conquer: That seems to be the motto of the world's third-richest man.

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  • New York - Divide and conquer: That seems to be the motto of the world's third-richest man.

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  • So, that's the story of the man who conquered the world's hottest curry.

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  • Hours later, the world woke up to the image of a masked man on the balcony of the Olympic Village.

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  • Tourists from all over the world, many of whom seem to romanticise the life of a man who made his way to No 7 on the Forbes world's richest list, come to ask Roberto about the "true" story regarding his brother, who lived from 1949 to 1993.

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  • "With the passing of Sherman Hemsley, the world loses one of its most unique comedic talents, and a lovely man, " Norman Lear, the creator of "All in the Family, " said in a statement.

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  • It took weeks, Mikkelson said, for a European tourist to come forward as the creator of doctored photos of a man on a balcony of one of the World Trade Center towers with a plane bearing down.

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  • Despite all of de la Renta's gentlemanly, old-world fabulousness, he's also very much a modern man of the world, who would just as soon take a title from a tattoo as an engraved bracelet which is where Ilardo first saw the line.

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