The RPI is used to set state pensions, rail fares and water bills, whereas the CPI, most crucially, is used as a target for the Bank of England.

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As well as poor road and rail links, an unreliable water supply and nationalist opposition to the sale of state assets to foreigners, at the top of most people's lists is the lack of a legal system capable of passing good laws and enforcing them.

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Skyonic imports salt by barge and rail from the Yucatan peninsula and mixes it with water.

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The areas of regulation would affect the energy sector, the postal service, telecommunications, water and rail industries and matters relating to competition in the commercial markets.

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Billions of dollars of needed road, port, rail, power, water and airport projects are behind schedule, a familiar Indonesian story made worse by the turn inward on some high-visibility deals where global contracting could help.

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Mr Swinney insisted the new approach would improve the running of energy, telecommunications, postal services, water and the rail industry.

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The job involves laying down the infrastructure for your city to flourish - power, water, roads and rail - and then watching as businesses and virtual people, called Sims, flock in.

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However, it is not just the U.S. that hungers for more or better roads, rail, ocean- and airports, power, water and telecom networks.

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The past year has seen confrontations over rail fares, petrol prices, a water deal with Bangladesh and foreign supermarkets in India.

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