The western regions have the highest proportion of non-Han minorities. (Uighurs and Tibetans outnumber the Han in Xinjiang and Tibet respectively, where they chafe under Chinese rule.) The regions have the least-secure parts of China's long borders.
Avnet said the weak profit forecast reflects the lower revenue in the technology solutions group, lower profits margins in the Western regions in electronics marketing due to a weaker sales environment, and a greater-than-expected mix shift in electronics market, with better sales in the lower-margin Asia region more offset by weaker sales in higher-margin Western regions.
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But the sites of the worst reported killings--Suai, Maliana, Liquica--all lie within the inaccessible western regions of the territory.
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Two additional highways connecting Caracas to the eastern and western regions of the country are facing potential bridge collapses.
The State Council also pointed to a big wealth gap between the urban and rural regions and vowed to provide more fiscal support for the less developed central and western regions of the country.
"These videos reinforce once again the complete lack of judgment exhibited during the 2010 Western Regions Conference, " Elkington said Monday.
Data on the property sector show that despite double-digit declines in property sales, investment remains resilient nationwide and picked up as expected in the poorer central and western regions rather than along the expensive, and built-out coastlines in cities like Shanghai.
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With 1, 641 stores in the Western, Southwestern, Rocky Mountain, and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States and in western Canada, Safeway is one of the largest food and drug retailers in North America.
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The report notes that "there is no commonly accepted explanation by criminologists for the fall in violence in many of the world's regions including the US, Western Europe, Eastern and Central Europe, as well as the UK".
The GOES-13 satellite, which is also known as GOES East, launched into space in 2006 and was responsible for tracking weather systems across the eastern United States while another GOES satellite monitored the country's western regions, according to NASA records.
The airlines said they would maintain service to all 336 destinations and eventually add flights to some regions, including the Western U.S. They said the combined carrier would maintain its eight hubs and even expand service from those cities.
Demand for raw materials and the related trade surplus, a surge in the Australian dollar and increase in interest rates are twisting the economy, strengthening western mining regions while undercutting tourism and nonmining industries.
The heads of government of Queensland, Western Australia and the Northern Territory, the regions most affected by the judgment, have mounted a vociferous campaign against aborigines having any rights over such lands at all.
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This has absorbed White House energies up to the point where other regions of the world, particularly, our Western Hemisphere does not seem to be on the radar of an Administration working under very hectic conditions of internal and external pressure.
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Pakistan has moved troops from its western tribal regions to the east in response to Indian sabre-rattling.
The study covered 450 babies of one week to one year old who died between 1993 and 1996 in the former NHS regions of South Western, Yorkshire, Trent, Northern and Wessex.
Today the Obama administration commits mistakes of similar dimension by rushing for the exits in Iraq, hastily drawing down in Afghanistan, and failing to pressure Pakistan to control its western regions, where al Qaeda and the Taliban operate with little restraint.
The Arctic remains one of the few unexplored regions of the world and the region above Alaska and western Canada is believed to be oil rich.
The governor of Omsk, in western Siberia, has banned the sale of food to other regions.
Ambassador GUIJIN: (Through Translator) The Western countries and Western oil companies have, for years, carried out oil exploration in the most oil-rich regions in the world.
The Sunnis, based predominantly in Iraq's central and western regions, are promised that oil and gas revenues will be shared between provinces largely on the basis of population and not grabbed by the Shia south and the Kurdish north, where most of the reserves are.
"In general, the eastern regions are aging faster than western Germany, " says Mr. Wilkoszewski.
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The simple fact is growth has slowed, particularly in the US, Western Europe and other developed regions, much of it due to macroeconomic issues.
The coalition was elected in February but analysts say it has failed to find solutions to Pakistan's economic crisis and to the militants in its north-western tribal regions bordering Afghanistan.
While nobody knows for sure how much the Saudis have spent on getting a foothold in non-Muslim regions and especially in Western Europe and North America, the sums are clearly huge.
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The unemployment rates in Marcellus Shale regions like Western PA and West Virginia are near zero.
These are unemployment rates comparable to Western Europe and the North America regions where mobs are not toppling governments.
There are signs of a new emphasis on dealing with the Russian regions, especially those closest to Western Europe, such as Smolensk.
"If you set it for the latter and allow it to route you onto unpaved roads, you're courting disaster, especially in isolated parts of the western U.S. or in mountainous regions, " he said.
The phonemaker's attempt at increasing its exposure to the lucrative mobile music and gaming market is seen a key step for the company that made its mark in regions such as Western Europe with its music-focused sub-brand Walkman phones and camera-focuses Cybershot handsets.
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