The test was designed to simulate the type of impact that would have been frequent during Earth's early history, some four billion years ago, when rocky, icy debris in our Solar System accumulated to form planets.

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So instead, through the government-controlled banking system, China accumulated a couple trillion dollars of foreign reserves in US dollars and euros.

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If the accumulated debt associated with the system is to be repaid, the burden will be more than JPY 100, 000, 000 per child.

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Because of restrictions on investment abroad and a dearth of high-yielding instruments at home, such money as has accumulated has been invested mainly in the domestic banking system, where it earns a rate of return far too low to meet the government's pension promises.

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Yuan has accumulated in ever larger amounts in Hong Kong's banking system.

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Sensor data is stored on the device for a fixed period of time, and accumulated data can be transferred using a special application and FeliCa technology, a popular smart card system in Japan.

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