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The central government, well aware of the risks of inequitable growth, has been trying to channel more development to inland provinces like Shanxi, Ms. Liu's home province, where the dismantling of state-owned industries a decade ago left a string of anemic cities.

The teenager appears to have also left a string of North Korea-related comments on the Web.

Roddick was unable to trade shots for long from the baseline against Ferrer, whose speed, conditioning and a vastly improved forehand left a string of exasperated players.

Donald Driver left a string of befuddled defenders in his dust on a rambling 61-yard catch-and-run for a touchdown in the third quarter, providing the most critical play in the Packers' 34-16 victoverover the 49ers.

Over the 30-odd years he lived in Texas, he left a string of failed businesses and angry creditors in his wake, and an embittered ex-wife who sought a protective order against him.

The biggest headache is Syria, whose president, Bashar Assad, left a string of Kurdish towns in the hands of a PKK franchise, the Democratic Union Party (PYD), which has been busily arming itself ever since.The Kurdish towns lie in flat territory that hardly lends itself to guerrilla war.

Cutting back from the byline and leaving a string of defenders in his wake, his tuck back to Ruud van Nistelrooy was helped along to Cristiano Ronaldo, who finished handsomely.

19 August 2009 The 18-year-old announces herself on the global stage by winning the 800m gold at the Berlin world championships, leaving a string of rivals 30m behind her.

Now one of the social media company's backers, the Nestlé heir Patrick Liotard-Vogt, has made an apparently sudden exit of his own from his native Switzerland for St Kitts in the Caribbean, leaving a string of financial claims and from business partners behind him.

He launched several unsuccessful business ventures, had the cheek to borrow the white Mercedes belonging to the future King Abdullah of Jordan, married the daughter of a well-off Jewish family and then suddenly in 1927 he took off, leaving a string of debts and a daughter behind him.

Slow, dreamy tracks full of noodley guitar and whimsical lyrics will leave a string of models loitering round like they have all day to spare, but that's fine if it works with the clothes, the setting and the general attitude.