Two days of talks are scheduled but without progress more elections could be held in June.

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Not, however, without one key condition: more progress on European defence.

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Throw the car hard into a right-hander, and the car wants to roll left but ARS counters the motion, flattening the attitude of the 7's chassis and keeping the car more directly on-line without (like other systems) having to bite at the progress of the wheels via traction control and other tricks.

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Utilities made additional progress bringing more customers back on the grid, but more than 100, 000 people were still without power Monday morning, the Department of Energy said, down from the nearly 670, 000 customers who were without power during the peak of the weekend's outages.

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