More than 55, 000 people a day ride the city's main escalator, which rises from Central to the residential district of Mid-levels.
Aaron Bleasdale, a lawyer, once rented a two-floor penthouse in Mid-Levels, one of Hong Kong's greenest and most-coveted neighborhoods, whose tenant had recently died.
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Less ice on rivers, lakes and the sea will lead to more evaporation, probably increasing cloud cover at mid-levels, which should have a cooling effect.
Missing altogether are the Happy Valley racecourse fire (1918), the Mid-Levels landslide disaster (1972) and the burning and sinking in the harbor of the Queen Elizabeth (1972).
These concerns are weighing on the second planned escalator, which would cover about 460 meters along the tranquil Pound Lane and along Blake Garden, one of the city's oldest public parks, about five blocks from the existing Central-Mid-levels escalator.
Overall the ten- and 20-city Case-Shiller indices are merely back to mid-2003 levels.
Growth has been particularly hit hard at its Construction Industries division in China where sales have declined compared to the mid-2011 levels.
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Corning, Rakesh says, is showing margin rebound to mid-2008 levels as factory utilization picks up and Corning Gen 8 and Gen 10 manufacturing efficiencies kick in.
Which, by the way, are also mid-2004 levels.
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In Spain the poorly diversified savings banks are warning that non-performing loans could rise sixfold from their levels in mid-2007.
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After months of continued improvement, Spanish bond markets deteriorated as well, with the yield on 10-years jumping dramatically to 5.44%, hitting its highest levels since mid-December.
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The Fed also extended its forward guidance for ultra-low rates, or outlook for interest rate levels, until mid-2015.
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"Vehicle sales will not recover to pre-crisis levels in the near to mid-future, so the industry needs to adjust for the overcapacity that exists, " ACEA head Ivan Hodac said in November.
At these rates, GDP is tipped to fall to 1994 levels by mid-2001 - seven lost years.
Electricity generation surpassed prewar levels in mid-2007 but averaged about 56% of demand in 2011, Brookings estimates.
However, prices remain far below levels from mid-2010, and we do not expect prices to increase enough to materially affect our estimates.
The last time Apple traded to similarly lofty levels in mid-October, the stock reversed to close lower for four out of the next five trading days, losing more than almost 7%.
Before the spot was aired, the sector was 1.1 points above KFC, but by August 2 KFC had overtaken the sector by 18.4 points before falling back to sector levels by mid-August.
The view was echoed by market intelligence firm Ipreo, which tracks a rolling six months filed backlog that was at just 35 deals in mid-December, its lowest levels in over three and a half years.
Meanwhile, U.S. Federal Reserve policy-setters acknowledged in a statement Tuesday that economic conditions remain soft and they intend to leave interest rates at record low levels until mid-2013, which analysts have described as supportive for gold.
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Beyond that, if my recommendations are approved, that unit's departure will be followed by the withdrawal of a brigade combat team without replacement in mid-December, and the further redeployment without replacement of four other brigade combat teams, and the two surge Marine battalions in the first seven months of 2008, until we reach the pre-surge levels of 15 brigade combat teams by mid-July 2008.
In the worst-affected regions of Somalia, cereals prices are 260% higher than they were in 2010, comparable to what happened in Ethiopia, when grain prices in famine-stricken northern provinces in mid-1985 were about 300%-350% of their levels the year before.
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From the mid-1940s through the mid-1970s, global temperatures endured a 30-year decline even as atmospheric carbon dioxide levels rose nearly 10 percent.
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That was the meaning of the announcement of the US Federal Reserve that it anticipates holding its official interest rate, the so-called federal funds rate, at exceptionally low levels "at least" through mid-2013.
But I believe there are segments below the Dow Jones Industrial Average - the lower levels of the large-cap, the mid-cap and small-cap stocks - where the fundamentals are really robust.
About half of all estimated warming since 1900 occurred before the mid-1940s despite continuously rising CO2 levels since that time.
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In the late 1990s, when the unemployment rate tumbled to the lowest levels since the mid-1960s, employers became interested in categories of workers they usually rejected: former welfare recipients, the disabled, and so on.
When compared with average wages, prices are at levels seen in the mid-1990s, long before the boom.
Over the past few weeks, shares of the iShares Gold Trust (IAU) have returned to levels last seen in mid-January.
The transaction is a profitable one if shares in the XLE top recent highs to trade at levels not seen since mid-2008.
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