Persistent poverty is most acute among single-parent households: 29% of those in the bottom 30% of the income distribution in 1991 stayed there for the next five years, a higher proportion than for any other household type.

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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.

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In Bradford acute in-patient care has been reconfigured to provide self-contained single sex units.

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The graphic below shows levels of acute exposure and the corresponding health effects based on total dose occurring in in a single day.

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The crisis has exposed acute new questions, such as how to marry Europe's cross-border single market for finance with the reality that only national governments can and will step in when things go wrong.

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