It is not unheard of for people to wait up to 15 years and it is just as bad in rural Devon as it is in the centre of cities.
The course of action is clear when the recovery is robust, as it is in big emerging markets and rich countries far from the centre of the financial crisis.
France, in turn, is worried that it will lose influence as the centre of Europe gradually moves eastwards.
The Big Easy is earning a new nickname - the Hollywood of the South - as it becomes the third biggest centre of film production in the US behind Los Angeles and New York.
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Built up from nothing, it is set in beautiful surroundings with lush greenery around the centre of the town as well as the outskirts.
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However, Bronglais Hospital in Aberystwyth, is highlighted as an example of excellence for the telemedicine links it has established with the cancer centre in Swansea.
Its flagship project is in Rio de Janeiro, where it has built an operations centre, which it describes as the "nerve centre" of the city.
The school exists to this day - although it is now based at RAF Cranwell in Lincolnshire - and over the decades has cemented its reputation as a global centre for flight instruction.
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It is also possible that being outside an increasingly integrated European Union would fundamentally undermine the City as a global financial centre and cause many global businesses to quit the UK. All of this is worth debating, and no doubt will be, here and elsewhere, in the years to come.
There is only one flaw in this rosy vision of a parliament growing in power and confidence as it assumes its role at the centre of a supranational democracy.
As with Iraq, it is his opponent, Barack Obama, who is having to track towards the centre, trying to renounce some of the crowd-pleasing claptrap he uttered in the primaries.
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