In France lofty tax hikes have already been curbing high-end activity and suppressing prices, according to Savills.
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That's why we see the flurry of activity at the end of the year, when members of Congress want to get home for the holidays.
For one thing, beyond the immediate calendar, participants say that front-end activity for new LBOs has waned, suggesting that new-issue supply may be headed lower in April.
For two-parent families the requirement is even stiffer: 75% must be in some form of work activity by the end of this year, and a full 90% by 1999 and thereafter.
Given that fewer than half of the patients in the exercise group were actually following recommendations for physical activity by the end of the study -- par for the course with behavioral-intervention trials requiring lifestyle changes -- O'Connor says he wasn't disappointed that the benefits were small.
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Another market that has been flooded with high-end investment activity is indeed Miami.
Speaking afterwards, Mr Blair said the peace process was "best guarantor of an end to paramilitary activity".
Still, hiring by these private firms is weak, especially given how much economic activity has occurred since the end of the recession.
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Economic activity rebounded strongly with the end of the war and an IMF agreement, resulting in two straight years of high growth in 2010 and 2011.
This perception is being skillfully exploited by the island's governor, Pedro Rossello (who also happens to be a co-chairman of Al Gore's fund-raising efforts there), to elicit a commitment from Mr. Clinton to bar the resumption of live-fire training on Vieques and, within at most five years, to end all Navy activity on that island.
In fact, there was a degree of bearish options activity across the board at the end of last week.
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"The Prime Minister has made it clear that all paramilitary activity needs to come to an end if the political process is to succeed, " he added.
"These incidents are direct attacks on the democratic process and they only make us more determined in our resolve to see a complete and permanent end to all paramilitary activity, " he said.
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"We welcome an end to violence and putting an end to the criminal activity, so we are obviously in support of the government of Iraq as they move forward in a dialogue with elements of the Sad trend, " said Rear Adm.
But the end of that flurry of activity is just the beginning of the next, more amorphous phase of budgeting.
The halt to military activity that Mr Sharon promised includes an end to the targeted assassinations of militant fighters and leaders.
Despite the talk of peace, there is no lifting of the state of emergency, no end to restrictions on political activity, no suggestion of the army's return to barracks.
"Billionaire activity has been concentrated on high-end urban centers rather than leisure properties in the surrounding countryside or regional sunbelts, " said Yolande Barnes, head of world research at Savills.
Companies like GE and H-P only ceased such activity after the news media scrutinized their "end around" operations with the Iranians.
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At the end of the day, the activity we spend most of our time doing in these games needs to be the strongest.
Japan was, pre Friday expected to grow by 1.5% this year, however, whilst Q2 and Q3 will take a dent, the activity from reconstruction will mean that by the end of Q4 the Japanese numbers will not be too far off the mark.
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Some, however, found themselves obsessing over the end transaction and unable to enjoy the activity.
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Finally, at the end of the day, the teaching activity must ensure a life-long employability of the students.
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Should the stock continue to climb higher, it could end up benefiting from short-covering activity during the next few months.
But, as we move into the tail end of the third quarter, PC activity will continue to slow as demand drops.
They are interested in determining if any activity had taken place at Whisker Cottage between the end of December and 7 February.
So without prejudging what might happen over the course of the next 10 or 11 days, I think we saw -- usually these things, there's a flurry of activity as we get a bit closer to the end of that.
Marks, Managing Partner at High Rock Partners, he told me we are heading into a period, where there will be a big push for transactions to close before the end of the year especially since deal activity was muted during the first two quarters of 2010.
In the end, the most deadly aspect of human activity may simply be the pace itself.
Bayliss said the fact that most players were contracted until the end of June meant that the lack of activity in recent weeks was always likely.
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