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Before he presided over the sport of football, Tagliabue starred on the hardwood.

In their first two decades in power, they nationalized a thousand companies that then collapsed, seized farmland across the country, bungled the oil industry into steep decline and presided over the theft of untold billions.

It would require the consent of 14 other realms over which the monarch presides as head of state, including Canada and Australia.

Leader Xi Jinping presided over the commissioning ceremony this week for the Fujian, the country’s third aircraft carrier and the first to be fully designed and built in China.

Upon hearing the verdict, Dunn embraced his three defense lawyers while the presiding judge thanked jurors for their service.

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