The current Governor, Sir Mervyn King, fell out with the previous government over his refusal to supply liquidity to the banking system at the height of the 2008 crisis until cornered by a coalition of BOE and Treasury officials.

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Our tester also came with an adjustable height suspension and an Adaptive Dynamics System that governs the stiffness of the dampers on a real-time basis to optimize body and ride control according to driving conditions and the terrain.

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But the efficiency of such a system is proportional to the height of the chimney, notes Mr Michaud, which is limited by practical considerations.

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With device volumetric efficiency a key concern for system makers, WD began shipping 7 mm height hard drives for thin-profile notebooks earlier this year (historically, standard notebook hard drives have been 9.5 mm).

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By next year, the country aims to take its warning system to the next level by calculating the height and the arrival of a tsunami, said the director of Indonesia's earthquake and tsunami center, Fauzi, who like many Indonesians uses only one name.

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It is hoped that this will address the so-called "too big to fail" problem, that pushing these enormous firms into a full-blown and complex bankruptcy process during the height of the financial crisis - as happened with Lehman Brothers - could destroy the entire financial system.

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This Ocean forecasting system could generate crucial forecast information, such as ocean circulation, sea surface temperature, wave height, to serve the needs of a variety of human activities related to marine hazards mitigation, oil and gas exploration, fisheries, navigation, marine parks management and coastal recreational activities.

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