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For the next year, the actress' travails seemed to play out on a split screen, with tabloid stories mirroring Aniston's movie titles.

Unlike previous years, she has no vacation plans and is wary of her travails a decade ago, she said.

The post-Communist travails of the former Soviet Union have been valuable as what the party used to call "teaching by negative example" .

Think Sudan. People forget that extreme poverty as a result of desertification explains much of that country's travails.

The queen had to find another defender or today's ordeal would be the least of her travails.

This social democratic solution to the travails of the financial sector is widely advocated right across the political spectrum .

Many of Rio's subsequent travails are a result of the enormous debt it took on to outbid America's Alcoa with a knockout $38 billion offer.

Pressed to say what he has learned from Barack Obama's early travails as American President, Mr Cameron is diplomatically reticent.

Once she reached its gates, the worst of her travails would be over.

Admittedly, some of the travails of the European centre-left reflect problems that are peculiar to the old continent.

But this would require a formal treaty change, which few are willing to consider after the long travails over Lisbon.

The travails of Dubai Inc have left commentators struggling for the right phrase to describe Dubai World and its various siblings.

As we have endlessly explained, your life, your travails are not about gaining some material advantage for your physical situation!

In the UK, meanwhile, the Bank of England's travails are intense.

Huawei's latest travails stem from a tiny deal the company struck in California.

The early travails of the CIC are further evidence of the difficulty of managing such large foreign reserves.

After coming under pressure last week much for the USD will depend on the euro zone's travails to determine further direction.

Kewell's recent travails have given him a different outlook on his football.

Despite their many travails, the evacuees were grateful to have survived and tried to keep up each other upbeat.

Given that sector's travails, don't be shocked if one of those gets ushered out along with GM.

Greece's travails seem all the odder after a recent economic record which, to judge by the basic numbers alone, looks tolerably good.

To ease your travel travails, here are a few gadgets and services to salve the pain.

The invasion stoked up a powerful local insurgency, and America's travails in Iraq have emboldened the Iranians.

Recruiters think the company will struggle to attract staff because of its travails.

Thuy seemed pleased to find someone interested in her travails.

Still, the latest economic travails could prove to be even more challenging.

During economic travails, American voters have often punished the party in power, and 1980 was a case in point.

More broadly, Mr Obama's health-care travails are a reminder that the culture wars still rumble on.

He listened intently to every detail of their travails and always ended the visits by asking if they still had any unanswered questions.

Danone's travails do not signal a return to these days.

Germany's travails are not a good advertisement for maximising competitiveness.

Indeed, whenever any candidate has defended evidence-based science, they have suffered a backlash: witness the travails of Mitt Romney.

But if the TV industry's fears seem excessive, they're also understandable given the travails of publishing in the Google age.

Some people think the travails of EMI are a just rebuke to those who would treat media as merely another industry.

BP's travails (see article) illustrate the limits of enthusiastic corporate citizenship.

In recent days, estimates have emerged concerning the impact of the country's travails elsewhere.

Meanwhile, UNESCO's private competitors see the travails of the heritage list as symptomatic of wider problems.

Such frustrations are strikingly similar to Chinese complaints about the travails of doing business in India.

The travails of the single currency have hardened anti-euro sentiment in Sweden too.

The ADB's warning comes as global risk appetite, including for Asia, has been damped by the eurozone's travails.

Optimism, whether born or learned, may make the travails of teenagerhood a bit less painful for us all.

What energy remains is being expended on the travails of Ferenc Gyurcsany, a former prime minister.

Of course, it is important not to exaggerate the role of foreign policy in the travails of Mr Obama.

This lack of leadership partly explains Greece's economic travails.

Italy's economic travails have attracted less attention recently.

With the nation still recovering from the Great Recession, this is the perfect time to read about Tom's travails.

Mr Rogan by no means absolves Arabs of responsibility for their travails.

However, Gallas knows that the Teessiders' recent travails will have little bearing on the result.

The party's travails are producing a fierce argument on the right.

Throughout my life, I have had to face few outward travails .

There may be those who'll accuse Swift of exploiting her own romantic travails in this and other songs.

Less attention has been paid to the political lessons that the Japanese themselves drew from their travails.

South Korean and American carmakers are benefiting from their Japanese rivals' travails.

Today Mr Hsuan can look back at his travails with equanimity.

At law firms, many of which have been hit by the travails of their City clients, they are even set to fall slightly.

The quicksand represents the travails of life.

Despite our current economic travails, we live in a society of great wealth.

Competitors have benefited from UBS's travails.

Both have also made potential endorsers unhappy in their recent travails.

The travails of Dubai World, the struggling conglomerate that is seeking to restructure $22bn of debts, have also acted as a warning.

In some ways the current travails of Goldman Sachs (see article) epitomise the problem.

BP's travails will undoubtedly have the same effect: we can expect a bull market in chief safety officers and chief apology officers.

But this is a complex argument, as the current travails of BP illustrate.

Their travails, however, go some way towards explaining the puzzling weakness of job creation since the recession ended last year.

For we know that the whole creation groans together and travails in pain together until now.

Very fit, in spite of all his travails.

I followed Latin America's debt travails through the 1980s and Mexico's in 1994-95.

The travails of the rating agencies

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