Ultimately, it will be impossible to avoid doing business with Beijing.

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The military said however that vehicles purchased before the ban will still be used "to avoid waste", The Beijing News reports.

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Some might opt to avoid very expensive cities, such as Beijing or Shanghai, for up-and-coming smaller urban centers such as Chengdu, the provincial capital of agriculturally fecund Sichuan province.

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The real estate market has impacted the economy as Beijing corrals developers in an effort to avoid an explosive housing bubble.

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On the plus side, ADB said that China would be able to avoid a hard landing, given that policymakers in Beijing have considerable scope for further stimulus measures.

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"After Beijing, I wanted to try something different, something new and avoid what we have done in the past, " Ostapchuk told reporters after she won.

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In a 2010 study of 120 children ages 7, 9 and 11, researchers at Beijing Normal University in China found kids increasingly told altruistic lies to avoid hurting others' feelings.

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