"If your house became a controlled parking zone overnight, you wouldn't expect to be fined for parking there yesterday, " a spokesperson said.

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She seems to understand the daily frustrations of life in the controlled parking zone, and dealing with unbending officials at the town hall.

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On the BBC's Inside Politics over the weekend, Brussels-based analyst Nicholas Whyte thought that, even in a future more tightly controlled Euro zone, Dublin will still fight fiercely to retain its low corporation tax rate, although this may mean making budgetary sacrifices elsewhere.

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Each zone will be controlled by a committee of parents, teachers, councillors and businesses.

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Next, the report considers how the Fed might have acted had it controlled interest rates in the euro zone.

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Some people also crossed from the area controlled by the Iraqi government to the Kurdish zone.

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Some of them were people who'd fled from the war zone in Lebanon south to these streets, a Shiite neighborhood, but not one controlled by Hezbollah.

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Some seven years ago, when the FARC took most of the current hostages and controlled an estimated 40 % of the country's territory, there already was a demilitarized zone.

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