In 2002 all Provinces maintained this rate and in some cases recorded higher than 48 per cent.

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As stated in our previous report, education levels in Israel maintained a moderate increase in all population groups.

Credit policies have helped to juice the economy from time to time, but the authorities have also retained the ability to slow things down when warranted.

They built a concrete home, but the family kept the key to their house in Nazareth.

Moreover, the Transitional Government maintained its ambiguous position vis à vis the former military.

Western Europe s long held position as the world s most important concentration of military power after the United States and Russia appears to be over.

Norway retained its independent armed forces, including the navy, during the union with Sweden.

As she started to shout and kick, the aggressor ran away and his car keys fell on the floor, which she kept.

Fortunately, Gandhi held her nerve and began to prepare for war.

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The Authority maintained its close relationship with the Division of Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea of the Office of Legal Affairs.

Since 1972, America and China maintained small liaison offices in each other s capitals, without recognition.

But, unlike in a complete currency union, such as that of the United States, eurozone members retained full financial sovereignty, meaning that they controlled all of the levers of macroeconomic policy.

I kept that piece of paper for a long time, and then destroyed it when I became powerful enough. I was in a position to hand over their names to my armed friends on the Free Syria Army, who could then circulate the information and ensure the killers were punished.

Most lemurs have retained the tapetum lucidum, a reflective layer of tissue in the eye, which is found in many vertebrates.

Over the years, the city has retained its traditional charm, with a mixture of old cultural heritage and modern architecture and facilities.

Among the drivers of growth, domestic capital formation retained much of its momentum from preceding years.

Following a request made by the Conference of the Parties at its first meeting, the secretariat has also maintained a list of contributions made to the General Trust Fund.

Version 2.0 could also run DOS and Windows 3.0 programs, since IBM had retained the right to use the DOS and Windows code as a result of the breakup.

To offset the negative impact of private sector deleveraging on growth, the US government has maintained expansionary fiscal and monetary policies.

Firms, especially in sectors sheltered from international competition, have retained market power and have increased prices in response to the rising cost of capital.

BERLIN Germans used to joke that Chancellor Angela Merkel s penchant for communicating via fleeting text messages effectively marked the end of traditional historiography. Well, at least American spy agencies seem to have kept full track of the behind the scenes communications in Berlin and beyond.

So if you had held your bank stocks up to the end of last year, over 110 years your investment would have yielded an annual average return of less than 3 , still broadly a break even strategy.

Determining the size of likely losses is necessary to decide whether banks retained earnings from profitable ongoing operations and their ability to raise private capital will allow them to work down their toxic assets over time.

She kept a journal and took photographs of the horizon which were used later to detect aerosol layers in the atmosphere.

However, it has retained many broad characteristics and with the exception of the short lived Second Republic of South Korea, the country has always had a presidential system with an independent chief executive.

While some organizations had adopted harmonized procedures and common tools, they tended to retain their own administrative requirements, creating additional bureaucratic burdens for Governments and the United Nations system.

When IBM launched its personal computer, it could easily have bundled it together with its own operating software, and in this way maintained its dominance.

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Nevertheless, from 1936 the Japanese Army and Navy held, effectively, a legal right to nominate (or refuse to nominate) their respective ministers.

Most notably, France retained all of the territory which it possessed as of 1 January 1792, and also was returned many of the territories lost to Britain during the war.

In view of the decline in value of the US United States dollar againstversus the Euro, current expenditures projections indicate the possibility of an over expendituresexceeding the amount of the approved budget if the secretariat is expected to maintain its current establishment. In view of this, the COP may wish to authorize the secretariat to make use of any available savings brought forward from the previous periods.

In some cases, US firms bought the banks, held on to them until Korea recovered, and then resold them, reaping billions in capital gains.

Most importantly, they have maintained competitive currencies, which is the best way to ensure high profits for manufacturers.

The EU s member states retain power over the most sensitive political issues, including taxes, health, education, pensions, the labor market, and foreign policy.

The vast majority of these proceeds are retained by criminal organizations in rich countries and laundered by banks in global financial centers, with just a small amount returning to Latin America.

Countries with more developed bond markets experienced less negative fallout from the crisis, since their large firms retained access to non bank sources of finance.

While markets remained calm, the Cyprus crisis revealed the full extent of the political disaster that the eurozone crisis has wrought the European Union is disintegrating at its core.

So rampant were the equivocations, untruths, and outright lies from both camps that many media outlets and non partisan groups maintained running lists of factual distortions.

For more than two decades a period characterized by chronic recession and deflation Japan has retained its position as the world s richest country in terms of net wealth abroad.

Most telling is that Britain, which retained control of its currency, enjoys the lowest yields in its history, while the risk premium on Spanish bonds is at a new high.

Network Solutions retained control of the .com registry, whereas we created a competitive market for the reseller business whereby registrars sold names directly to users.

Whitman resigned as CEO of eBay in November 2007, but remained on the board and served as an advisor to new CEO John Donahoe until late 2008.

The scrap market, traditionally the most volatile, has maintained its unsteadiness, with prices increasing almost threefold in some countries in 2004 before falling again.