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UBS was one of the hardest hit banks during the global financial crisis.

The poor, especially in tropical climes, will be hardest hit by all this, since they have little means of adapting to such changes.

The south-east of England was the hardest hit at the beginning of the week but the snow is now moving northwards where the chaos continues.

He said the investigation continues into the reasons schools appear to have bee hardest hit.

And America would have to take the hardest hit of all if it had continued with runaway spending.

Japan was one of the hardest-hit countries during the global financial crisis.

Property and financial stocks were among the hardest hit by disappointment that the PBoC had not opted for a bigger rate cut.

Fujian Province, a coastal area along the Taiwan Strait, was one of the hardest-hit areas.

Onna was one of the hardest-hit, with half the town destroyed, officials said.

We were called back in the middle of our interviews due to the pressing deadline and had yet to visit some other hardest-hit towns.

Rikuzentakata, on Japan's northeast coast about 250 miles from Tokyo, was one of the communities hardest hit by the March 11 disaster.

Residents of the hardest-hit areas likely only had 15 minutes of warning, though Tokyo would have had at least 40 minutes of warning.

The gems and jewellery sector, usually a strong export performer, was the hardest hit with a total fall of 9 per cent.

There's no reason to put more jobs at risk in an industry that has been one of the hardest-hit in this recession.

It has been one of the hardest hit among the largest U. S. lenders in the nation's housing and credit crisis.

Bulgaria, one of the hardest hit, said people had started freezing as it began moves to reboot a controversial nuclear power plant.

One of the hardest-hit countries in Europe, it has already mounted rescues for two banks, Fortis and Dexia.

The fastest growth in wealth took place in India, China and Brazil, some of the hardest hit markets in 2008.

The manufacturing sector is one of the hardest hit in the US and within the sector, mills industries are have seen a huge decline.

However, when hear Yushu County is hardest hit, the total insurance Dorje grief and returned to the devastated earthquake relief road.

This places them at the centre of one of the hardest- hit segments of the global IT industry as a result of the economic downturn.

Housing sales are picking up in some of the hardest hit markets, though prices are still dropping.

Metals would be among the hardest hit; Chinese construction is among the largest global drivers of demand for iron ore.

Southern England appears to be the hardest hit region, while Scotland has the lowest rates of infection so far.

British banks would be among the hardest hit by an Irish debt default because they are among the largest investors in Irish bonds.

There were 11 million jobs lost, half of them in the United States, and with low-skilled workers and manufacturing the hardest hit.

Australia was the hardest hit as it aggressively cut its interest rate and on sharp economic downturn.

Goldman Sachs will be hardest hit: it derives at least 10% of its revenue from proprietary trading.

Worn, the pecan company executive from Georgia, said retailers who sell bagged pecans are likely to be hardest hit by increased prices.

promises to increase acrimony inside UBS, which has gutted its leadership since becoming one of the hardest-hit banks in the credit crisis.

The FTI says hotels, restaurants, souvenir shops and shopping malls near the protest sites would be hardest hit.

But flooding was reported in all five boroughs, with the suburbs hardest hit and roads washed out in the Hudson river valley.

The clothing trade, long one of Wenzhou's core industries, is among the hardest hit.

The findings of this new research demonstrate why Africa may be the hardest hit continent when it comes to AIDS infections.

Experts say that the building code in much of the hardest-hit areas was set at the lowest domestic standard, which is six.

The findings contradict studies that have recently shown that supposedly typical or middle-class families have been hardest hit.

Burma was criticized by the West and human rights groups for restricting access to the hardest hit areas and for refusing direct aid.

But sales were up sharply in some areas hardest hit by the housing bust, largely because bargain hunters were out in force.

The health ministry fears that if cholera gets a foothold in the capital, the urban slums are likely to be hardest hit.

Some of the hardest-hit young people were in countries with the most protections for older workers.

So deeply in debt are the hardest-hit of this unwieldy bunch that only the central government has the cash to prop them up.

For example, in those countries hardest hit by the AIDS pandemic, it is often grandparents who are left to care for AIDS orphans.

Emergency supplies are being transported into the hardest-hit communities, some of which have been reduced to drinking river water.

Rainforests are threatened, disease is exacerbated, and hardest hit are poor populations and women around the world.

Mainz yuan Village, Gansu is the text of the hardest hit county are damaged in the worst one of the villages.

Now, some groups have been allowed in, but areas hardest hit by the drought are not getting the large-scale assistance needed.

Hardest hit are the independent farmers, and bankruptcies on Confederate agrarian worlds are rising sharply.

Conference organizer Jean Palutikof warns that Australia will be one of the countries hardest hit by climate change starts.

Quantitative funds have been hardest hit, as investment models that had made money for ages briefly proved worse than useless.

Recently, China's PLA has also sent a medical team and a helicopter team to the hardest-hit regions.

As of Thursday morning, 36 people have died in Tuscaloosa, one of the hardest hit cities, Mayor Walter Maddox told CNN.

And for the first time, foreign diplomats will be allowed to tour the hardest-hit areas.

Dog flu now focus on the hardest hit areas in Florida, Philadelphia, Denver and the northern suburbs of New York, million infected dogs.

scores of people sorting and distributing tons of aid for relief centers in the hardest-hit parts of New York.

Structured credit bankers specialising in cash CDOs will be the hardest hit this year as the impact of market turmoil takes its toll .

Six months ago the Asian economies were among the hardest hit in the world, as exports to the rich world plunged.

Germany's export-driven economy has been among the hardest hit by the global slowdown.

Analysts say it is no surprise that markets in southern China have been hardest hit.

After Lehman failed, car markets were clobbered around the world, but America's was hardest hit.

With about 40 per cent of demand closely linked to China's cooling property sector, steel has been one of the sectors hardest hit.

Rescue personnel have arrived the hardest hit, the number of casualties is expected to rise further.

Likewise, the countries that have contributed least to greenhouse gas emissions will be the first and hardest hit by climate change.

They have been among the hardest hit by this recession.

Countries in Asia, the former Soviet Union, sub- Saharan Africa and central America have been hardest hit, it said.

Thousands of Chinese earthquake victims are leaving some of the hardest-hit areas because of flooding concerns.

Certainly, Vegas is one of the hardest hit places in the US.

In the short term, some of the hardest-hit emerging economies will be in eastern Europe.

The plan for the College Entrance Exam in Sichuan was also released Sunday, allowing 40 counties in hardest hit areas to delay the exam.

In Mianyang, a city close to the hardest-hit areas, travel agent Zhang Guangqing ignores the temporary travel ban.

"This is the hardest hit we've ever encountered in the 48 years we've been promoting tourism to Thailand, " she said.

All populations are vulnerable, but the poor are the first and the hardest hit.

Less than 24 hours after the quake struck, we arrived in Jiegu, the town hardest hit by the earthquake.

Six days after last Saturday's deadly earthquake in Pakistan, relief efforts remain stalled in some of the hardest-hit areas.

ATLANTA (AP) -- There were more signs Wednesday that those hardest-hit by swine flu are the young.

Meanwhile President Bachelet dispatched 10, 000 soldiers to quell looting around the hardest hit city of Concepcion.

The monster storm brought record snowfall to many areas, including Chicago, perhaps the hardest hit population center.

Shifang City, Sichuan, from the 5. 12 Wenchuan earthquake's epicenter just 30 kilometers, the earthquake is one of the areas hardest hit.

The government has delayed the opening for at least one month in the hardest hit places.

The catastrophic nuclear leak at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant has left northeast Japan the hardest hit area.

The hardest-hit cities have been those that depend most on income from property taxes, the report said.

the imf warns that the global credit crunch will lower economic growth next year , with the us hardest hit.

Sub-Saharan Africa remains the hardest hit part of the world, accounting for more than 70% of new infections.

South Gansu and Sichuan Kang County by its northern neighbors bring disaster to become second only to the hardest-hit county of Wenchuan.

Indonesia was hardest hit among the affected Southeast Asian countries, with over 130, 000 people confirmed dead.

Clearly one of the hardest hit sectors is banking.

Sichuan earthquake in the hardest hit, batch after batch of volunteers from abroad has started rescue operations.

Yet it was by far the hardest-hit hotel segment during the financial crisis.

Among those hardest hit by land conversion and import liberalization were the rice and corn farmers.

Caught in a cycle of poverty and disease, people in the hardest-hit countries face shorter life expectancies and economic decline.

But its financial system was among the hardest hit in the region.

The poorest, the landless and female-headed households have been hardest hit.

Social safety net programs help protect those hardest hit by the food, fuel and financial crises.

The jet business may well have been the hardest hit by the economic collapse.

Likewise, the countries that contributed least to greenhouse gas emissions will be the first and hardest hit by climate change.

U. S. respondents were hardest hit by the economic downturn with 56 percent reporting a decrease in their portfolio value.

Hardest hit was Bank of America Corp. , which saw its stock tumble 20% and the cost of insuring its bonds against default surge 50%.

Those hardest hit would have been those who actually pay their dues.

Hardest-hit were the provinces of Pakistan-Administered Kashmir and the North West Frontier.

The Indian stock market was the hardest hit compared to other Asian markets such as Japan, and Singapore, which also recorded losses.

French and German banks would be the hardest hit, because they are among the biggest holders of Greek debt.

Burma's military government last week agreed to allow more foreign aid workers in to the hardest hit areas.

Nevada was among the states hardest hit by the 2008 housing bust.

And 62% said the government had responded too slowly to those hardest hit.

The number of confirmed cases, at more than 9, 700, puts it among the world's hardest hit countries.

The rules on Groovy variables have probably taken the hardest hit with the new JSR-compliant syntax.

The unemployment rate in Clinton County, which contains Wilmington, is 15. 8%, the highest in Ohio, itself one of the hardest-hit states.

The government quickly suppressed the protests and tried to appease public anger with emergency supplies of rice in the hardest-hit areas.

The WHO has an emergency stockpile of 5m or so antiviral drugs, which it plans to make available for the hardest-hit countries.

The food price increases are pummeling poor food-importing regions, with Africa by far the hardest hit.

International students have been the hardest hit.

IATA says Asia-Pacific carriers are the hardest hit by the economic crisis and can expect losses of $1. 7 billion.

The hardest-hit market on Wednesday was for debt tied to shopping malls, office buildings and other commercial property.

people in the hardest-hit areas of Sichuan province are struggling to piece together their lives and rebuild devastated communities.

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The pace of climate change is accelerating, with poorest countries hardest hit.

One of the hardest hit areas is Europe.

Quang Binh was hardest-hit by the flooding sparked by heavy rain over recent days.

And the young have been hardest hit. Half the July increase in the dole queue was people under 25.

Hotels near the hardest-hit areas in northern Japan have closed because of problems with logistics or infrastructure.

Hardest hit by global risk aversion are countries with external deficits.

The West Midlands was the hardest hit region, with joblessness jumping to 10. 3%.

Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of Congo are the hardest hit countries in that region. India is the most affected country in Asia.

The hardest-hit industry would be metals, but even that would shrink by only 1. 5%.

As a result, the agency says HIV rates are falling in sixteen of the twenty-five hardest-hit countries in Africa.

The Premier is taking a whistle-stop tour in the hardest hit area of the south.

The purchase of factories, buildings and other assets by foreign firms was hardest hit in rich countries.

Although most poor farmers will gain most of the time, they will lose precisely when they are hardest hit: when their crops fail.

The ICRC has been excluded from the area of north-eastern Sri Lanka hardest hit by fighting in recent weeks.

Hardest hit was Wyeth's Premarin, which is soon to be acquired by Pfizer Inc.

Children and young adults are the hardest hit.

Carriers in that region were hardest hit by higher fuel prices: Their combined losses are expected to total $3. 9 billion this year.

The hardest-hit are African-Americans and Hispanics.

Hardest hit by the drought were many Chinese farm-ers.

The portfolio includes 448, 000 loans, of which 58% are in California and 10% in Florida, two of the hardest-hit areas in the U. S.

The Premier toured the hardest hit area of the South.

He plans to travel to some of the hardest hit areas, including the Irrawaddy Delta.

The United Nations Children's Fund reports 80 to 90 percent of schools were destroyed in the hardest hit areas.

Perhaps the hardest-hit company is the world's largest automaker, Toyota.

Past experience has shown us that people living in poverty, and at the edge of poverty, are hardest hit.

so stick to the fight when you're hardest hit - it's when things seem worst.

In depressed rich economies, this is one more burden on those hardest hit by job losses and spending cuts.

Waaijman says mass care facilities, such as schools, orphanages, hospitals and homes for the elderly are hardest hit by the energy crisis.

For example, Florida and Nevada have been among the hardest hit by the housing crisis.

It's a view shared on the streets of Mexico City, the hardest-hit area.

As always, it is the poorest who will be hardest hit by economic contraction.

Two Marine helicopters have already delivered 1, 500 pounds of rice and bread to the hardest hit area, Shioishi City in Miyagi Prefecture.

Between 14 and 16 April, storms swept through several states, with North Carolina the hardest hit.

The cities of Shaoguan, Meizhou and Heyuan were hardest hit and many people were left homeless.

Earlier this week, the government postponed the voting until May 24 in areas that were hardest hit by the cyclone.

The index of top European shares tumbled 2. 2% with banks and commodity stocks the hardest hit.

In the areas hardest hit by the May 12 quake, more than 80% are unemployed.

Just stick to the job when you are hardest hit. It is when things look worst that you must not quit.

Among the hardest hit were children: The child poverty rate was 19% last year, up from 18%.

Kruger Park, a worldwide tourist attraction, has been hardest hit, suffering the loss of 33 rhinos since January.

The north-east was hardest hit, with sales plunging 57. 1 per cent from January.

This is the third consecutive annual rise. The hardest-hit are African-Americans and Hispanics.

Hardest hit is the purple finch, which now resides 400 miles farther north in the winter than he did 40 years ago.

Perhaps the hardest hit of the professional services has been human-resources consulting, where revenues fell by 20% in Britain last year.

Scientists agree that developing countries and small island nations will be the first and hardest hit.

Globally, retail assets fell 22 per cent last year, according to the Boston Consulting Group, with the US hardest hit.

Dr. Chan says vulnerable people in developing countries will be the first and the hardest hit from climate change.

Developing countries will be the first and hardest hit.

Of Gap's 130-odd stores in Japan, only two are in the hardest-hit area.

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