The firm's shares have almost halved in value this year and talk that it may be in further trouble left it as the biggest loser on the FTSE 100 on Thursday, closing down 4.9%.

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Local debt also did not trouble the World Bank, which could only talk in generalities in a January 2006 report.

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The conservative talk show host Joyce Kaufman - who has been in trouble before for incendiary comments about immigration and guns - claims, I think with real justification, to be a backer of all Americans at heart.

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Australian Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd had to talk himself out of trouble after airport officials flagged up a suspicious liquid in his cabin baggage - a jar of Vegemite.

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Croatia has plenty of war to talk about: its part in the Bosnian wars, a war against corruption, trouble with the UN war-crimes tribunal in The Hague.

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In each of these environments, there is someone to talk to if I have a question or have trouble finding something.

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