Two additional highways connecting Caracas to the eastern and western regions of the country are facing potential bridge collapses.
Louis Vuitton has expanded rapidly in China, and has more than 40 stores, including cities in central and western regions.
The State Council also pointed to a big wealth gap between the urban and rural regions and vowed to provide more fiscal support for the less developed central and western regions of the country.
The GOES-13 satellite, which is also known as GOES East, launched into space in 2006 and was responsible for tracking weather systems across the eastern United States while another GOES satellite monitored the country's western regions, according to NASA records.
Data on the property sector show that despite double-digit declines in property sales, investment remains resilient nationwide and picked up as expected in the poorer central and western regions rather than along the expensive, and built-out coastlines in cities like Shanghai.
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Avnet said the weak profit forecast reflects the lower revenue in the technology solutions group, lower profits margins in the Western regions in electronics marketing due to a weaker sales environment, and a greater-than-expected mix shift in electronics market, with better sales in the lower-margin Asia region more offset by weaker sales in higher-margin Western regions.
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The coalition was elected in February but analysts say it has failed to find solutions to Pakistan's economic crisis and to the militants in its north-western tribal regions bordering Afghanistan.
Demand for raw materials and the related trade surplus, a surge in the Australian dollar and increase in interest rates are twisting the economy, strengthening western mining regions while undercutting tourism and nonmining industries.
The unemployment rates in Marcellus Shale regions like Western PA and West Virginia are near zero.
Indeed, apart from Africa and Western Europe, all regions experienced double-digit growth in merchandise trade last year.
With 1, 641 stores in the Western, Southwestern, Rocky Mountain, and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States and in western Canada, Safeway is one of the largest food and drug retailers in North America.
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The simple fact is growth has slowed, particularly in the US, Western Europe and other developed regions, much of it due to macroeconomic issues.
The study covered 450 babies of one week to one year old who died between 1993 and 1996 in the former NHS regions of South Western, Yorkshire, Trent, Northern and Wessex.
The phonemaker's attempt at increasing its exposure to the lucrative mobile music and gaming market is seen a key step for the company that made its mark in regions such as Western Europe with its music-focused sub-brand Walkman phones and camera-focuses Cybershot handsets.
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While nobody knows for sure how much the Saudis have spent on getting a foothold in non-Muslim regions and especially in Western Europe and North America, the sums are clearly huge.
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The airlines said they would maintain service to all 336 destinations and eventually add flights to some regions, including the Western U.S. They said the combined carrier would maintain its eight hubs and even expand service from those cities.
"In general, the eastern regions are aging faster than western Germany, " says Mr. Wilkoszewski.
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The report notes that "there is no commonly accepted explanation by criminologists for the fall in violence in many of the world's regions including the US, Western Europe, Eastern and Central Europe, as well as the UK".
He also called for a deeper commitment to basic education across the continent, where school enrollment levels are dangerously low in some regions, and called on western pharmaceutical manufacturers to work to find cost-effective ways to provide preventative medicines and vaccines to curb the high rates of AIDS and tuberculosis through much of the continent.
There are signs of a new emphasis on dealing with the Russian regions, especially those closest to Western Europe, such as Smolensk.
Global shipment growth slowed from 64 percent in 2011 to 43 percent in 2012 as penetration of smartphones began to mature in developed regions such as North America and Western Europe.
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"If you set it for the latter and allow it to route you onto unpaved roads, you're courting disaster, especially in isolated parts of the western U.S. or in mountainous regions, " he said.
Relatively low contamination levels in western Japan could be explained by mountain ranges sheltering those regions from the dispersal of radioactive material, the authors said.
The governor of Omsk, in western Siberia, has banned the sale of food to other regions.
The Arctic remains one of the few unexplored regions of the world and the region above Alaska and western Canada is believed to be oil rich.
Western Europe has traditionally a higher seasonal swing favoring Christmas quarters than other regions.
Ambassador GUIJIN: (Through Translator) The Western countries and Western oil companies have, for years, carried out oil exploration in the most oil-rich regions in the world.
Yet campaigners warn that the focus on advances towards gay marriage in Western nations risks distracting attention from more urgent efforts to secure basic human rights for gay people in many regions of the world where homosexuality is still illegal and homophobia is deeply entrenched.
The most promising regions for further exploration, including the Middle East and Russia, are largely off-limits to Western firms.
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