The otherwise serene handover was marred by a motor accident in which at least one person was killed.
The hugely destructive natural disaster, in which at least 74, 000 people died, has made human conflict seem petty.
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Mass extinctions, says Anthony Barnosky, are geological events in which at least 75% of animal species were wiped out.
In 1896, Armenian revolutionaries attacked the Ottoman Bank in Constantinople, provoking a three-day battle in which at least 6, 000 Armenians died.
The only other countries in which at least 80 percent of this age cohort are secondary school graduates are the Czech Republic, Germany, Norway, and Switzerland.
It was set up in the wake of the 2004 Morecambe Bay cockling disaster, in which at least 21 Chinese cockle pickers drowned in rising tides.
The 1990s brought some indications of achievement gains among students in high-poverty schools, defined as those in which at least 75 percent of students come from low-income homes.
If it upholds the measure, this must then be approved in a referendum in which at least a quarter of voters turn out, probably to be held in mid-March.
The most popular pool is the salt pool, salted to the density of the Dead Sea, in which at least two people at all times were on their backs floating.
Training black officers is a big part of the job, since by 2000 the plan is to turn the predominately white-led police force into one in which at least half of the managers are black.
Mr Francis said the scandal, in which at least 400 patients may have died unnecessarily, was not an event of "such rarity or improbability that it would be safe to assume that it will not be repeated".
On Saturday the Chadian army said its troops in the same region had killed Mokhtar Belmokhtar - the veteran Islamist leader who was behind the attack on a gas plant in Algeria in January in which at least 37 hostages were killed.
It is due to be deployed to Darfur by early next year in an attempt to bring an end to the four-year conflict in which at least 200, 000 people are estimated to have died and more than 2m have fled their homes.
At the moment prices for oil and the other natural resources Russia exports in abundance are quite high, which, at least in the past, resulted in a situation in which the economy grew at a healthy clip.
He now has less than a week in which to woo at least 10% of the Reform Party's 1.3 million petition signers.
These three behaviors accounted for 57 percent of all the crashes in which teens were at least partially responsible during their first month of licensed driving.
But Eddie Johnson, the Seattle Sounder and U.S. men's national team player, says there's one area in which MLS is at least the equal of Europe's top soccer leagues: the stadiums.
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Some deliveries known to have been in the supply pipeline, which spanned companies in at least a dozen countries and was co-ordinated through a front company in Dubai, are still unaccounted for.
Especially given the weakness in the commodities in response to the rise in the dollar which was driven, at least in part, by talk of risk aversion in Europe.
Both Ben Bernanke and vice chairwoman Janet Yellen have made it clear QE will remained tied to a substantial improvement in labor conditions, which should at least include continued payroll growth and an improvement in hiring, the quit rate, and real GDP.
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What all three have done, in differing degrees, is to swap innovation for execution, which should, in theory at least, lower risk and make it quicker to get to market.
And then she turned 38 -- (laughter) -- which, in Washington at least, according to Meryl, is the sell-by date for Hollywood actresses.
Mechanical watches still rely on tiny spirals, invented by the Dutch scientist Christian Huygens in 1675, which, at least theoretically, provide perfectly isochronic oscillations.
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There have been only five seasons total since the Nets joined the NBA in 1976 in which both teams won at least half of their games.
The tool only surfaces deals in which eBay offers prices at least 10% lower than those of rival retail sites, explained spokeswoman Johnna Hoff in an email.
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The Council in this context condemns those acts, which resulted in the loss of at least 10 civilians and many wounded, and expresses its condolences to their families.
Not once between April and September did levi.com or dockers.com generate enough eyeballs to be ranked by Nielsen NetRatings, which in September required at least 172, 000 unique visitors.
The Moscow hotel industry has also had a good summer, helped by the city's 850th anniversary celebrations in September, which drew at least 1m Russian and foreign visitors.
The idea is to enrol in these new accounts most employees who are not already members of a pension plan in which the employer contributes at least 3% of a worker's pay.
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