Four years ago, under the yoke of a government-backed bailout, a bankrupt GM was taking extreme measures.

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But it is trying to rehabilitate its image after shaking off the government's yoke under the Troubled Asset Relief Program last year.

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Algeria's private businessmen chafe under a heavy bureaucratic yoke.

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Worse than our eroding fees and our perpetual fear of malpractice is the yoke we must work under.

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