At the Lancaster Central Market, Vicky Glosser works the register at an ice cream and salad retail food stand.
In the last year the central market has been rebuilt, traffic lights put in, and 80% of the potholes fixed.
The closest spring to town is Ain al-Arais, a cool, inviting waterhole with a grotto-like bottom, just five minutes' walk from the central market.
At the central market, residents gathered around to complain that they had been lured back with unfulfilled assurances of a better life.
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Most of them work as traders in the central market, and say the sites they have been offered are too far away.
At Lancaster Central Market, Amish woman Lydia King said she has seen differences even within her 30-family church group in New Providence, farmland about 12 miles from the busy county seat.
Felix Kumira, the night manager at Central Market, a catch-all food and beer purveyor inside the station, doubted new LIRR rules would do much to change the culture of drunken commuting.
Besides such things as the dreadful roads and expensive land, they will have to cope with the requirement in some states to buy from a central market rather than directly from farmers.
An advice and response unit is being set up in Northampton's central Market Square where Anglian Water experts and customer service staff will be available to answer any concerns of residents, she said.
And though landmarks such as the central market clock tower may help you orientate yourself somewhat, chances are a map of your exact wanderings after a day out at Chatuchak would resemble most closely a plate of pad thai noodles.
Over 60, 000 people make a living in Tsukiji, including auctioneers, stevedores, porters, clerks, traders at the 1, 700-odd firms of intermediate wholesalers and a raft of trades knifemakers, restaurants, grocers that have sprung up around the central market like a ramshackle village around a castle's walls.
In fact, Santiago seems like a smaller Buenos Aires, with a European style embodied in structures such as the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (National Museum of Fine Arts), housed within an elegant neoclassical building, and the Mercado Central (Central Market), with its filigreed steel framework imported from Britain.
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As part of this recovery program, the United States should seek to revive the Central American Common Market and the Central American Bank for Economic Integration.
Intel's share of the central processor market surged to 80.5% in the second quarter from 79.2% during the first quarter, according to Mercury Research.
In the 1980s this meant visitors could be forgiven for thinking they had arrived on the set of a wacky sitcom, perhaps made for the Central American market, in which the actors, all speaking American with a Latin twang, were masquerading as the nation's public figures.
Knowing they would soon have to compete in the market with a more eager central bank, market participants rushed to buy debt.
Turning to central bank take of the publicly held US government debt market, central banks ended 2012 with a 38.1% share of the market, up 20 basis points from the 3rd quarter, but down 30 basis points from the 4th quarter 2011.
Beyond the official scrutiny lies a tussle among exchanges for market share as high-speed trading becomes a central cog of the market.
The Central Bank Stock Market Indicator by Bill Bonner originally appeared in the Daily Reckoning.
By intervening, emerging-market central banks restrain the pace at which their currencies appreciate.
Emerging market central banks will probably not continue building up reserves this year.
This could further exacerbate food costs and force emerging-market central bankers to fight inflation by allowing their currencies to rise.
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Emerging market central banks have been adding gold to their reserves, including Mexico, Brazil, the Philippines, South Korea and Russia.
Granted, that is small beer, given that prices have trebled since the central London property market took off after Britain was ejected from the exchange-rate mechanism in 1992.
Most commentators remain bullish on gold and silver into 2012, given a climate of negative real interest rates, high equity risk premiums and continued buying by emerging-market central banks.
Emerging market central bankers views are extremely important, not just because they are large holders of U.S. and European debt, but also because they sit at the very heart of the global monetary system.
Emerging market Central Banks and sovereign wealth funds from Saudi Arabia to China are all big buyers of U.S. Treasurys, driving up bond prices and helping IEI beat EMLC, GSDIX and OEMAX handedly over the last 12 months.
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On average, emerging-market central banks hold less than 4% of their foreign-exchange reserves in gold, which is slightly under the 4.6% to 7% mid-range optimal level suggested by previous research done by academics, institutions and the World Gold Council for diversification of reserves.
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