But a World Cup spokesman said extra tickets had been given to countries with a big fan base, such as England.
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Monetary policy is much easier to reverse than spending increases or tax cuts, a crucial point given many countries' worrying long-term budgetary positions.
It was (and is), for example, a chronic failure of international bank regulation that the debt of Italy, Spain, Germany and so on was classified by financial regulators as completely safe and without risk after monetary union - which gave an unhealthy incentive to banks to lend to these governments (in the jargon, the government bonds of these countries were given a zero risk-weighting).
Arguments loom over reducing the extra voting weight given to small countries, for a start.
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What is important now is that the young generation of those countries have always given a hope for a brighter future.
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But this is because a lot of aid is given to countries recovering from natural disasters, famines or other humanitarian emergencies.
The Scottish government has given the BBC a list of the 30 countries which it says have decided on independence since World War II - along with the year they took UN membership.
They are what you get when you plot data for poor and rich countries together at a given moment in time, but actual levels of various pollutants in any individual country plotted over time wiggle around a lot more.
Referendums would have been lost in many other countries had their people been given a say.
The gallery above contains a list of foreign aid given to various countries along with their corruption index score.
The growth is going to come from notebooks and given that countries like India and China have a combined population of over 2.5 billion, there is a potential for PC market to expand.
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It is a controversial ranking, given that Australia thrashed South Africa 5-1 over a series split between the two countries 12 months ago.
The committee said that EU enlargement had become less of a priority given the ongoing economic difficulties in the Euro zone and there was a waning interest amongst aspiring countries.
But not serious because those countries' problems look solvable, given a fair dose of political will, and because their economies are small enough to have little impact on the rest of the world.
But, given that most of those countries get decent care for a lot less than America pays, that might be no bad thing.
Still unrecognised as president by many countries, Mr Sassou-Nguesso was given a lengthy audience with Mr Chirac at last week's Francophone summit in Hanoi.
This award is given each year to individuals in 12 countries who have a long history of giving their time and their talents to supporting the arts and art projects.
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And, given that in recent years most big countries have seen a large monetary expansion, central banks will find it hard to work out quite how accommodative they should be.
We were taught that, in any given situation, a solution that works for both parties (or countries, or disputed areas) can be created.
But applying its own analysis of the so-called "fiscal multipliers" in different countries (the impact on growth of a given change in public spending or taxes) suggests that the socialist's approach would boost French GDP by about 0.2%, relative to President Sarkozy's plan, and cut France's public debt ratio slightly faster.
Given how politically charged the pay issue is, there is a risk of countries like France going their own way.
To complicate matters, thanks to variations in the structure of economies, a given change in interest rates may have quite different effects in two different countries.
The former Greenpeace activist wants a "more socially conscious", caring continent, with countries given more time to meet the tough EU budget deficit targets, and some injections of targeted stimulus.
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Given the fresh emphasis on citizenship in multicultural countries, this is in some ways a strength of the French system.
If no publisher is registered as the exclusive provider of an edition in a given country, the ebook retailers just refuse to sell to people in those countries.
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It consists of a description of the new media landscapes in the mentioned countries, as well as of a list of challenges and recommendations given by the authors for each country.
Given the Depression it is hard to see governments ever wanting to tie their countries to a gold standard again.
The Scottish government said it was not a new vaccine and had been used extensively with millions of doses given to babies in other countries.
And at least some thought has been given to how it could be deployed, at a pinch, particularly to shore up banks in countries like Spain.
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