In October an accord was struck on nuclear power, and eight parties accepted a constitutional reform to transfer more powers from federal to regional level.

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These included proposals for the transfer from the federal to the regional level of certain aspects of fiscal, labour and healthcare policies, as well as the thorny task of reaching an agreement on the future of the bilingual electoral constituency of Brussels-Halle-Vilvoorde (BHV).

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Crandall later converted and used deregulation to steamroll less nimble competitors with his efficient hub-and-spoke strategy, which feeds regional passengers into a central hub where they can transfer to other American flights.

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The Federal Reserve Bank of New York, just three blocks from the World Trade Center, remained open throughout the day, though it shifted its electronic funds transfer and security transfer system to backup computers at the Federal Reserve Regional Bank in Richmond, Virginia.

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The group, which publishes the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror, The People, Daily Record and Sunday Mail, as well as 160 local and regional newspapers, has struggled to cope with falling circulations and the transfer of classified advertising to the internet.

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For a truly spectacular case of regional uproar, look at the national water plan unveiled in September, a huge scheme to transfer a cubic kilometre of water a year from (mainly) the Ebro, in the north, to the dry south-east.

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