"The sudden abundance of low-cost natural gas is a gift, " said Tim Wirth, president of the United Nations Foundation, who, as a U.S. senator, ran the hearings that turned climate change into a national issue.

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The IMF said there was an increasing risk of a property bubble due to an abundance of global liquidity, record-low interest rates and an unusually tight supply of new housing in Hong Kong.

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To many this would have been proof of his good fortune, for a man blessed with two hundred and four family members was a rich man indeed, but abundance gave the ascetically inclined Senior a permanent low-level headache.

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Here street art is also in abundance, scrawled on walls and lovingly adorning the facades of the hallmark low-storey residences.

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