But recently there has been talk of reviving the Qualified Domestic Institution Investor and "through-train" initiatives, which would allow mainland investors to invest in Hong Kong and abroad.
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Roughly half-way through the 33-hour train ride, at a time when many passengers are dozing in the oppressive afternoon heat, a series of subtle yet significant changes begins to unfold.
The civil-service "through train" implied a confidence-boosting continuity, especially after the derailment of its counterpart in the legislature.
At the moment making connections, for example between a Eurostar service from London to Paris and then to a TGV across France or an ICE high-speed train through Germany can be complicated.
In 1988, Pierre Mauroy, the city's mayor and a powerful figure in France's Socialist Party, engineered the routing of a new network of domestic and international high-speed train services through Lille and used that coup to turn the city into a logistics and service hub.
As a result, top Indian firms often have to put new hires through months of in-house schooling to train them for jobs for which they were supposed to be qualified.
That means he should have started by having the operation, getting through rehab and starting to train hard - that way he would be on fire at the beginning of the season when everyone else is tired from touring.
Until then, the No. 1 train will roll through the century-old tunnel as it loops around its last, lower Manhattan stop before heading uptown again.
They'd lived through more than one "revolutionary" power train--Wankel engines, gas-turbine engines, batteries.
Use that sugar buzz to walk east a mile, under the clackety El train tracks, through downtown's money-spinning core, to the Art Institute of Chicago (111 S Michigan Ave).
We gather our luggage and our four small children, and make our way to the compact compartment fitted with two seats and a washbasin that will be our bedroom, dining car and playroom for the next ten-or-so hours as our train pushes south through the night towards Luxor.
Tony Curtis, the Professor of Poetry at the University of Glamorgan - and a keen golfer to boot - had a timely poem to read as the train sped through the landscape of early autumn.
The brakes, as near as I could tell, would stop a train: Dazzling 15-inch-plus ceramic discs beam through the wheel spokes.
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So rather than wait for the perfect candidates to walk through the door, companies have decided to school their in-house staff or train new hires who may lack the exact skills they were looking for.
Make your way to Cosmo Velho, where the slightly unnerving cog train to the 710m-high peak known as Corcovado ascends through protected Tijuca National Forest to the Cristo Redentor, one of the most impressive monuments and urban views on earth.
Stratram would need to overcome a lot of challenges, particularly if squishy humans were among the things being transported into space: the track would need to be around 1, 000 miles long to avoid the kind of instant acceleration that could crush a human, and the train would need a low-pressure vacuum tube to travel through.
Others live in train stations and under the blue-sheet tents that are spreading through Tokyo's public parks.
It explained that this was "because the previous train, an engineers' on-track machine, had passed through the crossing in the opposite direction to normal".
The Spanish intelligence services believe an al-Qaeda cell perpetrated and funded the Madrid train bombings with cash raised through the trade of hashish and other illicit drugs.
Other proposals voted through will see cuts to the fire service, the scrapping of half-price bus and train travel for young people and the closure of seven waste recycling centres.
Metro-North and state officials are still planning to repeat on Tuesday the bus and shuttle-train operation they used Monday morning to help move 30, 000 displaced commuters through southwestern Connecticut.
Metro-North, the MTA's other suburban train service, is in the alcohol business through its fleet of bar cars but only on the New Haven line.
The crash happened when a Thames Trains train driven by Michael Hodder, 31, went through a red signal and hit a London-bound Great Western express.
Mr. PHILBRICK: You might be able to ascertain by going through the sewer pipe at this location, end up directly below a prime target - whether it's a train station or a municipal building or a school or a hospital, you know, something like that.
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