People under its influence lose their inhibitions and babble on about all sorts of things, leading to some amusing moments for surgical teams.

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The Russian plan is rather simple: Punish countries that refuse to come under its influence by building new gas pipelines that bypass them, while rewarding countries and political leaders that cooperate with Russia with lucrative energy deals.

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Under its growing influence, more people will bring good ideas to market more swiftly, reaching more possible customers, delivering them more value than they had received before.

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Under the influence of its finance minister, Giulio Tremonti, the government is distancing itself from free-market ideas.

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But one of its under-takings is having an enormously positive influence on the global economy--and its cost is a nanofraction of the routine infrastructure undertakings that can end up costing billions of dollars.

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The visit by Mr Ahmadinejad reinforced the perception that Iraq, under its new government dominated by Shia Muslims and Kurds, was falling under Iranian influence, our correspondent says, an impression the Iraqi government is keen to counter.

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On September 6, 2012, GHSA announced its support of drugged driving per se laws and enhanced penalties for driving under the influence of multiple drugs.

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Although Mrs Fastow filed false tax statements and created and administered an off-balance-sheet special-purpose entity that Enron used to hide its control of some Californian wind farms, some reports have claimed she was an innocent who fell under the malevolent influence of her husband.

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