Other previous steps included additional stamp duties for some buyers, with higher levies for foreigners, as well as tighter rules on the development of small "shoebox" apartments, which have floor areas of 500 square feet or less, in Singapore's suburbs.

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In 2000, for example, some 43, 739 foreigners were given their marching orders, but only 9, 230 were expelled.

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It makes no difference whether we have a magic box that simply spouts electricity, some foreigners make it for us or we make it.

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For example, Clinton is roundly criticized for rewarding big contributors -- some of them foreigners -- with access to events that brought them in close contact with the president.

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Within this, 2, 186, 121 persons, or 1.71 percent of the total (and 31, 305 fewer than in 2008), were foreigners registered and permitted to reside for some period in Japan.

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Nearly two dozen foreigners by some estimates were unaccounted for.

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Some 8% of the workforce in and around Vicenza, for instance, consists of foreigners.

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Like foreigners, the banks are likely to keep buying large bundles of government bonds for some time to come.

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