During the symposium, Asia-Pacific airlines and civil aviation organizations agreed on a simplified air-traffic pattern to go into effect region-wide late Dec. 31.

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Consultants have told the BBC there are also concerns over staffing the emergency department, covering holiday and sick leave, and the fact that the rest of the hospital system does not follow a seven-day working pattern shift, which has a knock on effect especially at the weekends.

BBC: Northern Ireland

The changing income pattern is not reflecting economic effects, but the effect of the demographic change of more lower income earning single households replacing higher income earning married households.

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All of this was then multiplied in effect, by the economic and social changes that altered the established pattern of community life in cities, towns and villages throughout Britain and throughout the developed world.

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Rather than being just a cyclical effect, the growth in demand for private rentals fits into a broader pattern.

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