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The world has set a slew of troubling records over the past year.

Now the Kremlin seems to have decided that a quick, violent end would be preferable to a slow death, and has set a date for what may be the oil firm's execution.Russia's federal property fund has announced that the entire voting stock of Yuganskneftegaz, Yukos's main oil-production subsidiary, will be forcibly sold at auction on December 19th.

BEIJING — The Chinese government announced Thursday that it had set a target to slow the growth of its greenhouse gas emissions by 2020, a day after the Obama administration set a provisional target for reducing United States emissions.

"The PBOC has recently set a slew of strong mid-points and pumped dollars into the market via state banks, giving the market a clear signal that the government won't let the yuan depreciate," said a trader at a major Chinese bank in Shanghai.

The Federal Trade Commission has set up a whole slew of new suggestions not quite regulations, then for Web sites in order to make their privacy policies more clear, and to regulate (without actually regulating) how they gather data and what they do with it.

With revolutionary fervor, and a resurgence of pride in running their own lives, residents have set up a slew of committees to impose order, distribute charity and run schools, but even its own members admit they have more enthusiasm than experience.

The implications of modern genetics are not as easily grasped, and it is understandable that the filmmakers felt they had to set a slow, careful pace when dealing with science.

"Obama has set the record for the slowest process since J.F.K.," Mr. Light said, as measured by the length of time it has taken to get his first class of roughly 550 appointees confirmed.

The Northern Ireland peace process is slow and painful and radically incomplete, but it has set in motion an epic change.

It is something for Afghans to weigh against the accumulating array of disappointments that "Good Morning Afghanistan" has set out to chronicle, including painfully slow flows of Western aid, outbreaks of ethnic factionalism within the new government and incidents when American military action has gone astray, causing civilian casualties.

As the reality of the slow recovery has set in, fewer locals feel that they can afford cover charges or even tips, so clubs that used to have live music four or five nights a week have cut back to two or three.