Fireworks lit up the skyline in the North Korean capital, Pyongyang, while South Korea ushered in the new year with the traditional ringing 33 times of the 15th Century Bosingak Bell in the capital, Seoul.
Barry Doe, a contributor to Rail magazine, said at the best of times the intercity service between the capital and Cheltenham was "one of the two worst" in the country.
In a Commons statement on 20 December 2010, Mr Hammond insisted the scheme would help tackle the north-south divide by slashing travelling times to and from the capital.
It shows that, in seven African countries, the return on capital for tiny enterprises is ten times that for the largest 20% of firms.
Less than 100 years later, the United States was the invention capital of the world, patenting inventions at three times the rate of Britain on a per capita basis.
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Incredibly, during the boom times governments lowered capital requirements instead of raising them.
New Orleans remains the nation's murder capital, with three times Chicago's homicide rate, and the police have to earn public trust.
The opening ceremony for the London Games is later this month on July 27, the British capital the first city to host the Summer Olympics three times.
This week, The New York Times called the events in the North Korean capital his "best moments, " and he was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize for his outreach.
They can move quickly as rivals that had not settled fraud charges, racing to the markets to raise capital by selling their stock or bonds, the Times noted.
As Mr Borio at the Bank for International Settlements points out, many of the ideas around countercyclicality (setting aside more capital in good times) and macroprudential regulation (safeguarding the stability of the whole banking system as well as of individual banks) were oven-ready, having been worked on by a coterie of central bankers, academics and regulators for a number of years.
Gillian Tett, capital markets editor at the Financial Times, predicted the crisis because she was a trained anthropologist and knew how to recognize a cult when she saw one.
According to research by Barclays Capital, cited by the Financial Times, Lockheed derives 85% of its revenues from the U.S. government and 13% from foreign governments, making it especially sensitive to budget cuts.
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"Times Square was the capital of exhibitionism, " Sharon Zukin, a professor at Brooklyn College and author of "Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places, " a book chronicling the city's gentrification in recent decades.
As the monsoon clouds hover over the Arabian Sea starting June, they herald the worst of times for commuters in India's financial capital, situated on the country's western coast.
Might the German banks have 32 times their capital base in either assets or liabilities?
There has also been a huge increase in the capital allocated to them in more recent times.
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Which would imply that Nationwide is frequently lending not far off 100 times the value of its capital.
In other words, Lloyds seems to have lent 455 times the value of the capital earmarked in its balance sheet to absorb losses, just in case these mortgages go bad.
But the problem is school budgets a lot of times don't have the money to put the capital up front to make it more energy efficient.
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What I think the Europeans will choose to do is leverage the capital of the EFSF (currently 440bn euros) up by borrowing 5-10 times that from the market.
However, in the end they prevailed, and driving times between important points such as Thessaloniki and the Epirot provincial capital of Ioannina were halved.
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There is a desire to turn Wall Street firms into commercial banks, with the heavy regulation and capital requirements that come with the privilege of borrowing directly from the Fed in times of need.
Banks could be encouraged to build up more capital during booms, which would help to avoid excessive lending, and then be allowed to reduce their capital in bad times to cushion the economy from a credit crunch.
If the IPO volume from Hong Kong, which is an extension of the China capital markets, is added, the total volume from Greater China is 3.6 times greater than that of the United States.
To give a few examples: the small Central American state of Belize was further impoverished by the construction of a new capital, Belmopan, in the 1960s-1970s, whose cost spiralled to four times its original estimate.
In the capital the average property price is 8.2 times the average income of a typical first-time buyer household, the review found.
His airfield remarks were broadcast over local and regional radio stations, and several times a week, from the state capital where he was spending the night, he broadcast a message to the nation.
Itai Brun, the head of research and analysis in Israeli military intelligence, told a security conference in Tel Aviv that Assad has used chemical weapons multiple times, including near Damascus, the capital, last month.
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