The call follows a report earlier in the month which showed business start ups in the region were running at a quarter of the rate for those in the South West and a tenth of the London level.

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Tariffs for using utilities and the infrastructure are extremely low: local calls are usually free, gas prices artificially cheap and wholesale electricity costs about a tenth of the average European level.

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It is also the tenth straight monthly increase, and the highest level of all time.

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The team has calculated that Alaskan glaciers are responsible for at least 9% of the global sea-level rise during the past century, and Alaska's glaciers raise the level of Earth's oceans by more than one-tenth of a millimetre each year.

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But the level of fear remained high, so Tokyo lowered the limits to one-tenth of the international standards.

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We then assigned each level of performance a number from zero to 10. (The highest one-tenth in each category received a 10, the second tenth a 9, and so on.) The higher the number, we assumed, the more pain that industry would suffer with respect to that specific variable.

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