Bearing the brunt of the disaster was Vargas state, an area with a population of 350, 000, an hour's drive from the capital, Caracas.

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Northumbria Police said the robbers left the area in a second vehicle, believed to be a grey coloured BMW 320 estate bearing the false registration NE08VWG.

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The New Orleans economy is bearing the recession better than most, evidenced in one of the lowest unemployment rates of any major metropolitan area in the country.

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Theory ran afoul of antitrust law in the Carecore case, however, where executives there were accused of refusing to deal with New York-area radiologists who provided upright MRIs, a new system that allows patients to be positioned in weight-bearing posture to see what might be causing them pain.

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