The pattern of seismicity has now returned to the level it was at before the ash and steam eruptions - magnitude three earthquakes are occurring at a rate of every five minutes.

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But the environmental challenges of species protection and human poverty amelioration are only too real, with deforestation occurring at a rate of some 2% per year, at least between 2002 and 2005, according to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization.

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Mr. BASIL BARIMO (Vice President of Operations, Air Transport Association): We were seeing accidents occurring at an alarming rate.

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The panic is occurring amidst a galloping rate of change in global business that seems to favor rising nations more than mature nations.

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These burdens are occurring amid tepid loan growth and in a low interest rate environment that contributes to net interest margin contraction.

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The 2010 statistics illustrate very clearly what everyone knows instinctively new company formation and privatizations are occurring in China on an unprecedented scale and at a rate which the world has never seen before.

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