• While in the rest of Central America people are moving from the countryside to cities, since 2000 the urban share of Belize's population has fallen from 47% to 44%, as immigrants have set up border towns.

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  • Overcoming the Cold War required courage from the people of Central and Eastern Europe and what was then the German Democratic Republic, but it also required the steadfastness of Western partner over many decades when many had long lost hope of integration of the two Germanys and Europe.

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  • In each and every one he stressed how the consumer, the customer, or simply the people were the central concern of his company.

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  • But that will only work if buyers are prepared to sacrifice the one thing that is central to the way that people traditionally buy art - the chance to see it and experience it in the flesh first.

    FORBES: Would You Buy Art Online?

  • The BBC's Andrew Hosken said few people appreciated the central vetting role played by the DoH, believing it was mainly an issue between local trusts and individual staff members.

    BBC: Whitehall role in NHS staff pay-offs revealed

  • And consistent with the bipartisan legislation passed by our Congress in 2010, the United States continues to pursue a comprehensive, multifaceted strategy to help the governments and people of central Africa in their efforts to end the threat posed by the LRA and reduce the human consequences of the LRA's atrocities.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • Heathrow achieved an all-time record passenger satisfaction score in a survey produced by the Airports Council International for the third quarter, but the percentage of people passing through central security within the prescribed time was below last year's level at 92.8% in 2012.

    BBC: An aeroplane at Heathrow Airport

  • To examine the plight of India's estimated 100m-odd DNTs and other nomadic people, the central government appointed a commission which reported back in 2008.

    ECONOMIST: India's criminal tribes

  • Its mission is to improve the quality of life and prosperity of people living in the central border region, an area described by ICBAN's chief executive, Shane Campbell, as being "on the periphery of Northern Ireland, on the periphery of the Republic of Ireland, on the periphery of the UK and on the periphery of Europe".

    BBC: Border regions 'want equality'

  • Steve Jobs famously designed the Pixar headquarters with central bathrooms so that people from around the company would run into each other.

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  • The people of Central Europe now have a chance to overcome a Cold War dividing line that has cut them off from the European mainstream.

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  • But that cooled down after a while and in the 19th and 20th century, these religious ideologies haven't really been the most central issues in people's lives.

    NPR: Early Divisions at Root of Sunni-Shia Conflict

  • The people managing central banks' reserves are not as concerned by that question as their private-sector colleagues are, because they do not have to make a profit.

    ECONOMIST: The dollar

  • Five years ago the central bank, the People's Bank of China, was given a federal structure that brought decision-making back to the centre and cut across powerful provincial lines.

    ECONOMIST: Casino capital

  • Atlanta ad executive John Stapleton had been trying for three weeks to come up with advertising ideas for a client, the Costa Rica Tourism Board, to encourage people to visit the Central American nation.

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  • His mosaics decorating the walls of Tottenham Court Road underground station in central London beguile the thousands of people using it each day.

    ECONOMIST: Obituary

  • The number of people who have fled from the Central Africa Republic has risen to 37, 000 since the start of a rebellion in December, the UN has said.

    BBC: Central Africa Republic crisis: Refugee numbers 'swell'

  • That view was echoed by thousands of protesters at the weekend who demonstrated at BBC buildings across the UK. On Saturday, about 5, 000 people demonstrated in front of the BBC's Broadcasting House in central London, while 50 people protested at its Scottish headquarters in Glasgow the following day.

    CNN: Sky, BBC condemned for Gaza aid appeal rejection

  • The number of people referred to Birmingham Central Foodbank has doubled in the past month, the charity said.

    BBC: Birmingham Central Foodbank running 'critically low'

  • The President you've heard on numerous occasions talk about the issues that he believes are central in the minds of the American people, as they make up their minds about the candidates for office in the presidential election.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • She spent nearly three years studying boredom among the Warlpiri people, an aboriginal group in the central Australian settlement of Yuendumu.

    WSJ: Interesting Fact: There's a Yawning Need for Boring Professors

  • The people most at risk perhaps are those who live in the central highlands, where 500, 000 people are dependent on food aid.

    ECONOMIST: The race to get food into Afghanistan before winter is on

  • While the allegations are still under investigation, they are likely to fuel the resentment and suspicion with which some people in central and eastern Africa currently view the ICC, says the BBC's Anna Holligan in The Hague.

    BBC: ICC opens sex-abuse investigation against ex-employee

  • Others have been casting doubts on the Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) - the largest and most organised political party of the city which is a partner in power both at the provincial and central levels but whose relations with the ruling Pakistan People's Party (PPP) have soured over the past couple of months.

    BBC: Karachi bomb was 'caused by IED'

  • And it is I think the central issue for the American people in this election year.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • Together with Japan's central bank, the People's Bank of China financed half of America's current-account deficit last year.

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  • About 600 people packed the Central Presbyterian Church, where Emerson's godparents are members.

    CNN: Friends remember slain hiker as 'angel,' 'firecracker'

  • Most recently, angry people in the Central African Republic protested because French soldiers did not intervene to stop a rebel advance on the capital, Bangui.

    BBC: Is France under attack in Africa?

  • In the 1990s, the Nazis' attempt at the destruction of the Jewish people became a central preoccupation, not just of American Jews, but of Americans generally.

    ECONOMIST: History

  • So even though LA was able to do good business in 1984, it came at a tremendous cost to the people in South Central and Eastern Los Angeles.

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