He says UMNO maintained power for years by giving special treatment to its core constituency - ethnic Muslim Malays, who make up 60 percent of the population.

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Sixty percent of financial executives interviewed by IBM favored outsourcing non-core activities, up from just 30 percent in previous years.

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Earlier this month, the company released a bit of bad news in its half-year financial report, saying that core earnings fell 39 percent as it held just one auction during the period compared with two in the prior year.

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Over that period sales from the Core Zone represented approximately 6 percent of world rough diamond supply by value.

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