The central figures are two plumed boys, types we associate with Caravaggio's early secular pictures.
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It is the Scythian world in miniature-the trousers and shaggy hair described by Herodotus, the distinctive mix of body ornaments and weapons, the central figures of horses.
Rothblatt is currently chief executive of biotech United Therapeutics, which she founded, but before that she was one of the central figures in creating Sirius Satellite Radio.
Irfan Naseer, 31, Irfan Khalid, 27, and Ashik Ali, 27, were convicted of being "central figures" in the plan which was foiled after months of surveillance work by police.
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Mr. Di Martino said he suspected Mr. Suljic, who was brought by police to a prison in Cremona, was one of the central figures in the network responsible for fixing matches in Italy.
Nevertheless Gordon Brown, the new chancellor of the exchequer, ought to be concerned that no central figures seem to be kept on the overall cost of public-sector pensions, on how quickly it is rising and how cost-effective it is to pension off so many public servants.
And probably the most fascinating part was we got access to a really interesting figure who's featured prominently in the film, Youssef Nada, who's a wealthy, cultivated Swiss financier born in Egypt, who really has served as one of the central figures in the Brotherhood for decades.
Figures from the central bank show that credit lines to finance trade, normally considered low-risk, are running at about half the level of mid-September.
The latest figures from the central bank showed that there was an improvement in foreign sales, with exports up 3.4% in the first quarter.
One of the great figures of global central banking, Jean-Claude Trichet - president of the European Central Bank during many of the euro's formative years - made a similar point.
The latest figures from the European Central Bank show that bank loans to the private sector were down by 0.2% in the year to June.
Figures from the European Central Bank this week showed that lending to the private sector declined by 0.3% year on year in September, the first drop since records began.
With GPS, a central dispatcher in each big city figures out which trucks are closest to the delivery site and sends them out on much shorter notice -- constantly rerouting as customers cancel, delay or speed up their orders.
Christian Noyer, the vice president of the European Central Bank, as well as figures from the mighty German Bundesbank, don't want any countries to use the euro until they have painfully satisfied all the Maastricht Treaty conditions, like balancing the government budget, or at least coming reasonably close.
Thursday's figures cover those working in central government and public quangos but not local authorities.
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By the central bank's reckoning, official figures understate deflation by up to one percentage point, which suggests that Japan is suffering a persistent consumer-price deflation of perhaps 1-2%.
Some 18 per cent of the deposits held in Cypriot banks by residents of other eurozone countries were pulled out in February, according to figures published on Thursday by the Central Bank of Cyprus.
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This most recent rise, though, came on the strength of economic figures, not market action by the central banks.
New figures from the World Gold Council reveal central banks adding 208 metric tons in the first half of 2011.
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Marco Biagi, the SNP MSP for Edinburgh Central, said he had serious doubts about the figures for both scrapping the scheme and for completing it.
For the first an ONS breakdown of the Welsh figures show 138, 000 were in central government, 182, 000 in local government and 24, 000 were in public corporations.
Pin was close to influential figures like Vijit Supinit when the latter was central bank chief.
Nearly 170 flights followed the central London route along the Thames in December, its figures show.
Taken alone, these inflation figures are unlikely to spur America's central bankers into pushing up interest rates soon.
There is clearly a problem, but neither the Bank of Italy, the country's central bank, nor the Italian banking association can put figures on it.
According to the Central Bank, February GDP data from the IBC-Br monthly figures showed the economy contracting by 0.23% month over month (seasonally adjusted).
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Figures from the Campaign for Better Transport show that in 2011 central government cut the transport grant by 28%, while this financial year the operators' grant has been cut by 20%.
They include current and former central bankers and regulators, government advisers, members of bank boards and senior City figures.
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