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The ongoing debt crisis in the euro zone and the weak recovery in the United States were thus posing serious challenges to many AsiaPacific economies.

Amid weaker global growth, greater uncertainty and increased volatility in international financial markets, the region’s growth rate is projected to slacken again in 2012, to 3.7 per cent.

Although deliberations had been held in the context of an ongoing global financial crisis, with such issues as uneven economic recovery, sluggish international trade and fears of a spreading sovereign debt crisis creating a challenging backdrop, delegations had shown flexibility and a spirit of cooperation that had helped achieve consensus on the vast majority of the draft resolutions.

According to the National Public Offering Group of Deloitte China, both the IPO markets of Hong Kong and the Chinese Mainland in 2012 saw the weakest performance since the financial tsunami in 2009.

Beyond weak international demand for commodity exports, the second round effects of the crisis may include slowdowns in production, decrease in tourism and decline in foreign direct investment (FDI) and official development assistance (ODA).

Although intraregional trade has been growing faster than the region’s trade with the rest of the world, the extent of replacement of growth in intraregional trade and demand remains too low in the short term to sufficiently make up for the sluggish recovery in the markets of the developed economies.

Fatigue is a common complaint with many different causes, including a sedentary lifestyle.

It is worth noting that currency fluctuations influence not only sales and markets, but also trade statistics; for statistics stated in US dollars, a weakening dollar will inflate both import and export figures.

This handicap translates into binding supply constraints and ultimately into weak export and economic potentials and limited productive employment generation and social development prospects.

Potential risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, such factors as: we may not be able to maintain our current growth strategy or continue to maintain our current performance, costs and loadings in our manufacturing facilities; risks of domestic and foreign operations, including excessive operation costs, labor shortages, higher tax rates and our joint venture prospects; unfavorable currency exchange rates; our future guidance may be incorrect; the global economic weakness may be more severe or last longer than we currently anticipated; and other information detailed from time to time in the Company's filings with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.

Observers at the trials noticed that the defendants looked tired and appeared to be in pain.

Also, the aforementioned result confirmed that other possible causes raised for the sinking, including grounding, fatigue failure, mines, collision and internal explosion, played no part in the incident.

The amount proposed would also allow for senior staff to deliver training, on the same trips, for security management teams at UNLB; on-site assessment, verification and assistance in the delivery of training ($119,000); senior security officers to travel to peacekeeping missions to conduct strategic/operational security assessments ($48,100); provision of needs assessment of, and support services on, psychosocial well-being to mission personnel in peacekeeping operations ($52,300), including psychosocial mitigating measures, team-building, stress management, burnout, coping with change, conflict management and coping with loss and death.

The Working Group acknowledges the efforts of States, many human rights defenders, non-governmental organizations, lawyers and others who untiringly work to know the fate or whereabouts of disappeared persons in very adverse circumstances in all parts of the world and reiterates its solidarity with the victims of enforced disappearance and their families.

The long, perilous journey out of Mali exhausted Ms. Sadou and all of her children.

The growth rate of the economies of the region is forecast to decline further, to 6.5 per cent, in 2012 with slackening demand for the region’s exports in advanced economies and as a result of higher costs of capital.

The prospects for growth in the UK remain subdued as they are in part influenced by the situation in the eurozone and weak consumer confidence, although the labour market has proved to be resilient.

The patented case-hardening process and back-ferrule geometry provide excellent vibration fatigue resistance and tube support—even in harsh or stressful environments, such as fuel processing or rotary equipment applications.

While some fatigue is normal, other times, it may point to an underlying health condition.

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We emphasize the need to address the impact of weak and volatile commodity prices and support the efforts of commodity-dependent countries to restructure, diversify and strengthen the competitiveness of their commodity sectors.

Recent arrests have made it possible to send an important message to all of those who today still try to come to power - or stay in power - by ordering and planning attacks against civilians, to all those who, when faced with an international criminal justice arrest warrant for war crimes, crimes against humanity or the crime of genocide, think that they can count on weariness or inaction on the part of the Council.

If this was the case, then large countries with high growth rates but weak IPR regimes would not have received large foreign investment inflows in the past and even now.

The main drivers will be the underlying positive trend in demand, income and population growth, increasing meat prices, a generally weak US dollar and limited growth of capture fisheries production, as well as rising costs for some of the most important input factors such as energy, including crude oil and feed.

5) Early analysis based on results of visual inspection of the salvage hull and interior as well as various modelling and scientific methodologies from various sources quickly identified 15 possible causes that could have resulted in the sinking of theCheonan (gun magazine(s) explosion; fuel tank explosion; catastrophic diesel engine failure/conflagration; catastrophic gas turbine engine failure/conflagration; bottom mine; moored influence mine; contact mine; under keel torpedo; contact torpedo; surface explosion; ballistic contact; improvised explosive device (IED)/non-contact mine; hogging/sagging/welding failure/material fatigue failure; grounding; and collision with submarine or other object); however, 13 were ruled out and focus shifted to an external underwater explosion (moored influence mine and under keel torpedo).

As a result, the number of entities decreased, in particular those which were economically weak, with the existing banks becoming modernised and the growth potential of the financial market rising significantly.