The Cypriot citizen stance suggests that the Eurozone peripheries, namely Spain, Italy, and Portugal, could possibly see higher risk.

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Data from within the regions shows further divergence rather than convergence between the stronger north members and the peripheries.

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But will the Italian election results cause a return to the high levels of stress experienced last year amongst the peripheries?

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In the violent peripheries of some cities, there is a danger of rising crime undoing the good that is being done by education.

ECONOMIST: Start at the beginning

And then they disappeared to the vast peripheries of our motherland.

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The question is whether the last two to three years, during which places like San Francisco, New York and Boston have enjoyed stronger STEM growth than their peripheries, represents a paradigm shift or is just a cyclical phenomenon.

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On that day the musketry and artillery of Selim the Grim, the Ottoman sultan, blasted to shreds the sword-wielding cavalry of Egypt's 250-year-old Mamluk sultanate, opening the way to 400 years of Ottoman Turkish rule over all but the peripheries of the Arab world.

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