Both disasters prompted policy makers to ease monetary and fiscal conditions that fueled an expansion in the aggregate demand, especially a construction boom that boosted equity prices, especially shares of companies involved directly or indirectly in reconstruction.

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In all, 1.1m tonnes of earth and rock were excavated in the construction of the 2010 course, flattening out the harsh gradients of the back nine, and using the aggregate to raise the opening holes above the level of the Usk's flood plain.

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