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Even Goldman Sachs, hitherto relatively unscathed, has suffered.One reason for the gloom is that banks' residential-mortgage woes are far from over.

He also said that the Taliban-led insurgency had spread not only to the east but also close to Kabul and, in pockets, to the north and west, hitherto relatively peaceful.

It may also explain why Syria's 3m-odd Kurds, despite suffering more than other minorities during 40 years of rule by the Assad clan, are only now, and hesitantly, joining the fight to overthrow it.As battles have raged elsewhere, a string of Kurdish-majority towns in Syria's hitherto relatively peaceful north-east have quietly seen local authority seized from the central government in Damascus.

The Farouq brigades, one of the largest rebel groups in the country, have now set their eyes on Raqqa, a hitherto relatively quiet northern province to the east of Aleppo.In this section As beleaguered as ever No side looks set to win soon How the police recruit radicals A comeback for the reformers?

Whether these new procedures will cost more to administer than the money lost in the corruption scandal remains to be seen, as is their effects on the fund's operations, which were hitherto relatively speedy and unbureaucratic.Yet with luck the changes will reassure the critics and start the money flowing again.

A game, he added, intended to surface stories that have been hitherto relatively seldom told, including the roles of those groups.

Deila had immediately preached about fitness and diet to a group of players who had hitherto been relatively successful.

Another element that had hitherto been relatively infrequent was humour, which appeared particularly in works by Cortázar, García Márquez, and Cabrera Infante; yet another was a frankness in sexual themes, heretofore rare in Latin American literature.

Mr Schröder himself looks grey, puffy and burnt out, his legendary charm and pugnacity gone, his credibility battered.Yet the Greens, the Social Democrats' junior coalition partner, had hitherto been relatively unscathed.

Under the third-runway scheme, which extends Heathrow to the north, the number of people affected by new traffic increases, because its east-to-west final approach now goes over places that have hitherto been relatively plane-free.Some of the people, some of the timeUnder Mr Leunig's scheme the final approach is over the existing airport buildings rather than over houses.

Phase I clinical studies have hitherto been relatively straightforward, selecting an active drug based on the maximum tolerated dose and taking successful candidate agents into phase II trials.