The high cost of housing in Hong Kong recently has attracted international attention once again. Not long after a report in the Economist that suggested Hong Kong was second only to Australia in terms of the extent to which housing is overpriced‚ a CNN video story‚ "Feeling Hong Kong’s Property Boom‚" cited record low interest rates‚ lack of buildable land in a city of 7 million population‚ and hot money from the Chinese mainland‚ as driving forces behind the local housing boom. Regrettably‚ the
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According to the China Construction Machinery Business survey‚ 26 of the main manufacturers of excavators in China sold 8868 units in September‚ 23.86% down. Excavator cumulative increase since February of this year climbed to the highest point‚ it has been declining for several months. China Construction Machinery Industry Association has predicted the next five years‚ the construction machinery industry is expected to be 17% annual growth. But now the growth target is being challenged. Growth in
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Indians solve the problems of living on the Plains? The first three lessons of this unit will lead up to an assessment which will look at your ability to select and combine information from different sources and to structure and organise this information in your work. You will be working in a group and individually to find out about the lives of the Plains Indians. The Great Plains were a hostile environment to live in and as a result the Plains Indians had to solve many problems in order
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Problems in Air Traffic Control and Proposed Solutions In northern California this summer‚ the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) unintentionally performed it’s first operational test of "free flight"; aviation without direct air traffic control. This was an unintentional experiment because it was a result of a total shut-down of the Oakland Air Route Traffic Control Center (ARTCC). Although Oakland is only the 16th busiest ARTCC‚ it’s responsible for the largest block of airspace of
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The economic problem can be described as attempting to satisfy the unlimited and ever changing wants of the consumer with limited resources. As these wants can never be satisfied‚ all individuals‚ businesses and governments are faced with the choice of what to obtain with those resources. As each consumer group’s wants and resources varies greatly‚ each deals with trying to solve the economic problem in a different way. The choices made by each individual are unique‚ depending on income‚ age‚ gender
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did not successfully solve the problems of slavery and civil war because the first amendment was violated for African Americans and they were also not allowed to intermarry. In section 2 of Black Codes it states‚” Any freeman‚ free negro...seditious speeches (speaking against government)...may be imprisoned.” This shows that African Americans were not allowed the freedom of speech stated in the first amendment. This proves that the reconstruction did not solve the problems of slavery and civil war
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into being. Therefore‚ when we are trying to solve the problem‚ looking backward and checking out ¬— how has it come to be‚ we can always find the cause and get the answer to figure it out. It is just like the allergy: not few people have faced the sudden skin erythema‚ which seemed like no reason‚ no sign‚ and coming out in one moment. But when we went to see a doctor with our anxiety‚ we would find that the doctor always asked some questions about what we had done before the erythema appeared‚ and
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These causes related to traffic congestion are major problems for travelers and need an immediate solutions to be eliminated permanently. Construction Soon as construction seasons begin‚ Torontonians faces the most traffic issues which occurs in major intersections and highways resulting in a high rise in traffic
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"Friends can always help a person solve his problem." Assess the validity of this statement. Nowadays‚ adolescent spend a half day on school. Friends become a essential role in their life. When an adolescent meets something trouble ‚ his friends will always aware and try to solve this problem. Teenagers are influenced by their friends and their ideas are very similar. Teenagers think that parents are old school and their opinions are outdated so teenagers accept their friends ’s opinions
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all as a group went through each picture and discussed what was occurring in each picture according to each person’s facial expression. We then all together voted on a picture that we wanted to use for the assignment‚ which was two girls standing on the left with one girl whispering something in the other girl’s ear‚ and a girl to the far right standing alone looking sad. After we chose the image‚ Image B‚ we all created a caption describing what was going on in the image. Part 2: Caption Creation
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