A week earlier, the government had seized Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

VOA: special.2009.09.18

They were inspired by the fall of the Berlin Wall a week earlier, which had divided East and West Germany for more than a quarter of a century.

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Earlier this week, President Obama won a major political victory with congressional passage of his health care reform plan.

VOA: special.2010.03.27

Earlier this week, he used a law called the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act to target three Mexican drug organizations.

VOA: special.2009.04.18

American government lawyers this week brought criminal charges against a young Somali man in connection with a ship hijacking earlier this month.

VOA: special.2009.04.25

Secretary of State Clinton, in Seoul earlier this week at the end of a trip to Asia, said the world has a duty to act over the sinking.

VOA: special.2010.05.29

Mr.Brown resigned earlier this week after a coalition was formed between the center-right Conservatives and the left-leaning Liberal Democrats.

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And the Treasury Department reached a $2 billion deal earlier in the week with four banks that hold most of Chrysler's debt.

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Earlier in the week, the Afghan government announced it plans to form a major anti-corruption unit for investigating graft among senior officials.

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The Bank of England began a similar program of buying up government bonds earlier this week.

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The IPCC retracted that forecast in a statement earlier this week after British media reports revealed that the data was not gleaned from scientific evidence.

VOA: standard.2010.01.23

Earlier this week,the president and Indian Prime Minister unveiled what they called a "green partnership,"

VOA: standard.2009.11.26

Earlier this week McChrystal delivered a classified report assessing the war and many analysts expect he will soon ask for more troops and money to fight the battle.

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Earlier this week,a group representing Mogadishu's dominant Hawiye clan said that al-Shabab militants had sent death threats to clan elders for participating in peace and reconciliation efforts with Somalia's interim government.

VOA: standard.2009.04.17

The president has used appearances in St.Louis,and earlier this week in Philadelphia, to appeal for public support in advance of a hoped for vote in the House of Representatives, a crucial step in the final stage of his push for a health care bill.

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