For efficiency's sake and because of the likely positive spillover effect for a whole village, FXB takes on 80 to 100 families in a single area at one time.
To be sure, there are more than a few gaping holes in this argument, not the least of which is the fact that the financial crisis that took down asset prices around the globe is not even remotely the same as a natural disaster that hit a single area.
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The end is that yes, fiscal transfers are indeed the only way in which a single currency area can be kept together.
The big question is, how large do those fiscal transfers have to be in order for such a single currency area to work?
It makes no sense to have a lot of exchanges in a single currency area, because they disperse liquidity and keep trading costs high.
Pollick is using the model of a community foundation, where charities in a geographic area operate as a single tax-exempt entity.
Something very close to this is necessary, in the IMF's view, to manage this and future crises and build a stable single currency area.
And the indications given to the property professionals are that the enterprise plan won't create single sites, but the tying together of various sites into a single enterprise "area".
The prime minister said all Europe's economies, whether in the euro or not, needed a swift resolution of the current instability, and the single currency area as a whole needed to act to demonstrate it could "live within its means".
Government officials concede, however, that not a single farmer in the area is in compliance with Brazil's Forest Code, which is aimed at preserving the world's largest rainforest.
Also, many analysts favor pure-play stocks that focus on a single sector or product area, arguing that conglomerates impede the ability of investors to target their market bets precisely.
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In order to preserve the euro, the single currency and thus also the single interest rate area that goes along with a single currency.
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The commission may result in a single artwork or a series of installations in the area around the Emirates Arena.
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Data from a single tower in a rural area may only locate a phone within 10 miles.
Philips is also making it clear that employees are expected to move around in their careers rather than stick with a single geographical region or product area.
The draft proposal, presented by the Commission in September 2010, aims to strengthen and merge existing directives into a single piece of legislation known as the single European railway area.
There aren't many places in Britain where a single employer has played such a big part in the area's history and needless to say, many companies are not doing as well as Tiptree, at home or abroad.
It is a common refrain from bankers that the euro area no longer functions as a single financial market, although that has the paradoxical advantage of making a break-up less destructive.
White said the girl died of a single gunshot wound to the chest area.
But what about the case of women in rural North Dakota, or another sparsely populated area, where a single pharmacy might be the only option for 25 or 50 miles?
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All the critical systems in a modern car -- engine, transmission, brakes, stability controls -- are linked to a single electronic system called the Controller Area Network bus, or CAN bus.
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The Liberal Democrats have called for PE teachers to be replaced with "PE coordinators", who would work across an area rather than a single school, specialising in one or two sports each.
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Indeed, the most important potential benefit of this bigger break-up is that it could bring the euro crisis to a decisive end by restoring confidence in a smaller but sturdier single-currency area.
But a euro-area banking union would risk a fragmentation of Europe's single market that might leave Britain's financial industry isolated.
How to distinguish between preserving financial stability (a matter for the 17 euro-area states) and preserving the single market in financial services (a question for all 27 EU members)?
Now, the sense among many investors is that the acute phase of the crisis is over and that the single currency area has turned a corner.
And after they collect all the public comment, the commission is going to decide how many TV, radio stations, cable networks, newspapers a single company can own in a given area of the country.
But in Los Angeles, a year after the zone was set up, city authorities could not name a single investment that had been attracted into the area.
This was then followed by months of foot-dragging about whether ESM would really be allowed to recapitalize banks as well as plenty of back-sliding (most notably from Germany) on allowing a single bank supervisor to operate throughout the euro area.
According to a New York Times report from findings from one consumer group, auto insurance rates were 68% lower for a married woman with a college degree, a professional job and who owned a home, when compared to a single woman, with a high-school diploma who rented her home in a moderate income area.
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