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In a bid to keep a grip on its customers, Knight pushed to introduce a new system that would position it competitively amid market changes that took effect on Wednesday, according to people briefed on the matter.

Julia says she devotes her time to fighting the extradition – she campaigns on Twitter, her blog, and on a petition which has garnered more than 21,000 signatures – in a bid to keep a normal life for her son, who is still studying at Sheffield Hallam University.

The research firm said it expects the bid to "keep a lid on all cable stocks near term," except for potential acquisition candidates, namely Cablevision Systems.

Considering Cumberland River had hired the pricey Washington, D.C., law firm of Crowell & Moring to litigate the case, it probably ran up a considerable tab in its failed bid to keep a disciplinary infraction in one miner's record.

In a bid to keep a hold on their home, residents set themselves up as Bramley's Housing Co-Op (all Frestonia residents adopted the surname Bramley, the idea being that the GLC would have to move them all as one family if they eventually kicked them out) and negotiated a deal with the Notting Hill housing trust.

The head of the department that oversees the Australian Border Force is initiating potentially costly legal proceedings at taxpayers' expense in a bid to keep secret a single document about the federal government's asylum seeker turnback operations, despite some of the material being publicly available.

BEIRUT, Lebanon — Thousands of Syrians took to the streets again on Friday in virtually every region of the country, but in some locales, Syrian security forces showed restraint in not firing on the demonstrations in a possible bid to keep down a death toll that has brought growing international pressure and strained relations with Syria's few allies.

Economic anxiety ratcheted up again last weekend, when in a bid to keep negotiations for an IMF loan on track, the government introduced a new currency system for auctioning its reserves of US dollars, causing a sharp drop in the value of the Egyptian Pound.

The former European indoor 60m silver medallists admits he is "far from the finished article" but hopes to continue his dramatic improvements in a bid to keep in contention for a place at next year's Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.

Years of neglect at the ancient Roman city of Pompeii are being dug and scrubbed away in a last-minute bid to keep money flowing from a huge European Union-backed renovation programme.

Johnson helped assemble the new ownership group in a bid to keep the Kings in Sacramento, a feat that was accomplished earlier in the week when N.B.A. owners rejected a bid to move the franchise to Seattle.