Within each of these maturity levels are Key Process Areas which characterise that level, and for each such area there are five factors: goals, commitment, ability, measurement, and verification.

All telecom companies are working to broaden their networks in the Azad Jammu and Kashmir and Northern Areas, which were largely ignored until recently.

Bishops thus elected serve Episcopal Areas, which consist of one or more Annual Conferences.

In May 2006 in Geneva, Switzerland the United Nations Committee against Torture released a report, which, along with calling on the United States to close the detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and criticizing interrogation techniques, took note of the " limited investigation and lack of prosecution " in connection to accusations of torture in Areas 2 and 3 of the Chicago Police Department.

Areas which the GLA has responsibility for include transport, policing, fire and rescue, development and strategic planning.

Areas of the Deccan Traps ( a basaltic lava ) in west central India are good examples of rock formations with high porosity but low permeability, which makes them poor aquifers.

Other references to Le Pétomane include Mel Brooks's 1974 film Blazing Saddles, Kevin Gilbert's The Shaming of the True, the 1984 college romp film Up the Creek, directed by Robert Butler, in which the four protagonists represent Lepetomane University in an inter-collegiate river raft race, Kinky Friedman's 1999 novel Spanking Watson, and John Hodgman's book The Areas of My Expertise.

The Industrial Development Act of 1966 changed the name of Development Districts ( parts of the country with higher levels of unemployment than the national average and which governments sought to encourage greater investment in ) to Development Areas and increased the percentage of the workforce covered by development schemes from 15 % to 20 %, which mainly affected rural areas in Scotland and Wales.

It is estimated that, between 1964 and 1970, 45, 000 government jobs were created outside London, 21, 000 of which were located in the Development Areas.

* Areas with a high annual precipitation due to a frequent cloud cover in combination with heavy and sometimes persistent orographic rainfall ; such forests have a perceptible canopy strata, a high number of epiphytes and a thick peat layer which has a high storage capacity for water and controls the runoff ;

Areas such as the Antelope Valley desert which is a high desert received snow each year, in the past it could snow 2-3 times a year ; however, recently snow level has declined significantly to once a year or less.

Areas in southern Australia which has a mediterranean or temperate climate allows cooking for richer hot dishes, or slow cooked dishes in the winter which is not always desirable in the warmer regions further north at the same time of year, as well as experiencing greater seasonal change in local produce.

Special Areas of Conservation, under the European Union Habitats Directive, in County Kilkenny includes Hugginstown Fen south-west of Ballyhale, The Loughans near Urlingford, Cullahill Mountain on the Castlecomer Plateau near Johnstown, Spahill and Clomantagh Hill which form part of an escarpment which links the Slieveardagh Hills with the Castlecomer Plateau, Galmoy Fen north of Johnstown, Lower River Suir south of Thurles, the freshwater stretches of the Barrow / River Nore and Thomastown Quarry, near Thomastown.

Surveys of woodlands of County Kilkenny include A Woodland Survey of Kilkenny, undertaken in 1997 to identify woodlands in the county and A survey of broadleaved woodlands in three special Areas of Conservation, Barrow-Nore, River Unshin and Lough Forbes ( 2000 ) which covers some of County Kilkenny, and National Survey of Native Woodlands ( NSNW ) 2003-2008 which was one of the largest ecological surveys to be completed in Ireland and did its fieldwork in the county in 2003.

At each census, the government produces a report called " Key Statistics for Urban Areas ", which gives the population of the actual town or city.

Areas of the eastern portion of the county drain into the Lehigh River via the Quakake Creek, Nesquehoning Creek, Mahoning Creek, and Lizard Creek, all of which also start in the county.

In 1994 the Conservatives were instructed to desist from their policy of " Priority Group Sales Areas " ( the targeted sale of Council flats and houses in specific wards ) as it constituted gerrymandering, which partly accounts for the difference between electoral results and demographics.

In England, the designating body for SSSIs, Natural England, selects biological SSSIs from within Natural Areas which are areas with particular landscape and ecological characteristics, or on a county basis.

The protection given to scheduled monuments is given under the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979, which is a different law from that used for listed buildings ( which fall within the town and country planning system ).

Diamond Jubilee Schools for girls were established throughout the remote Northern Areas of what is now Pakistan.

The areas of Lochnagar and Ballochbuie were designated in 1998 by the Secretary of State for Scotland as Special Protection Areas ( SPA ) under the European Union ( EU ) Birds Directive.

Areas with ravines or forests, like Chambal, Chilapata Forests were once known for dacoits.

Areas further from the center were the domain of the chōnin ( 町人, literally " townsfolk ").

Areas that were shired by 1607 and continued in existence down to the local government reforms of 1836, 1898 and 2001 are sometimes referred to as " traditional " or " historic " counties.

Areas of the cities of Belfast, Cork, Dublin, Limerick, Derry and Waterford were carved from their surrounding counties to become county boroughs in their own right and given powers equivalent to those of administrative counties.

Areas that were traditionally Muslim had very little crusader settlement, just as they already had very few native Christian inhabitants.

Areas that had many Polish-language speakers were known as the Polish departments.

As of early 1994, there were thirty-three ministerial portfolios: commerce ; communications ; culture ; defence ; defence production ; education ; environment ; finance and economic affairs ; food and agriculture ; foreign affairs ; health ; housing ; information and broadcasting ; interior ; Kashmiri affairs and Northern Areas ; law and justice ; local government ; minority affairs ; narcotics control ; parliamentary affairs ; petroleum and natural resources production ; planning and development ; railways ; religious affairs ; science and technology ; social welfare ; special education ; sports ; state and frontier regions ; tourism ; water and power ; women's development ; and youth affairs.

Areas that were still missing were gap-filled with a blue or white resin.

In 1994, control of Areas ' A ' and ' B ' were transferred to the Palestinian Authority.

In November 2001, Taliban, Al-Qaeda combatants and ISI operatives were safely evacuated from Kunduz on Pakistan Army cargo aircraft to Pakistan Air Force bases in Chitral and Gilgit in Pakistan's Northern Areas in what has been dubbed the " Airlift of Evil " Former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf wrote in his memoirs that Richard Armitage, the former US deputy secretary of state, said Pakistan would be " bombed back to the stone-age " if it continued to support the Taliban, although Armitage has since denied using the " stone age " phrase.

In November 2001, before the capture of Kunduz by United Front troops under the command of Mohammad Daud Daud, thousands of top commanders and regular fighters of the Taliban and Al-Qaeda, Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence agents and military personnel, and other volunteers and sympathizers in the Kunduz airlift, dubbed the Airlift of Evil by US military forces around Kunduz and subsequently used as a term in media reports, were evacuated and airlifted out of Kunduz by Pakistan Army cargo aircraft to Pakistan Air Force air bases in Chitral and Gilgit in Pakistan's Northern Areas.

Areas that were annexed by the Soviets were reincorporated into Romania, along with the newly established Transnistria Governorate.

Areas outside city limits were left open as farmland.

This allowed for new development on infill sites or on the edge of larger towns and villages, “ but preventing development in the open countryside and in designated areas such as green belts and Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty .” In addition, opportunities for public participation in the planning process were also increased by the Act, partly in response to opposition to some features of urban housing and planning policies.

In 1966, five development areas ( covering half the population in the UK ) were established, while subsidies were provided for employers recruiting new employees in the Development Areas.

In July 1967, the government decided to pour money into what the Plowden Committee defined as Educational Priority Areas, poverty-stricken areas where children were environmentally deprived.

The beds and converted waterworks are part of one of the Royal Borough of Kingston's Conservation Areas.

Areas with early finds include the eastern zone of the Harappan civilization in Punjab and Haryana, where finds date back about 4500 years, and South India in the modern state of Karnataka where finds date back more than 4000 years.

Many of its early residents were forcibly removed under the Group Areas Act from Pageview ( aka.

In early 1935, the Shaan-Gan Border and Northern Shaanxi Soviet Areas merged to form the Revolutionary Base Area of the Northwest and Xi became one of the leaders of the base area.

Its Local Government Areas are the City of Swan and the Shire of Mundaring, and it is located at the foot of the slopes of Greenmount, a landmark on the Darling Scarp that is noted in the earliest of travel journals of the early Swan River Colony.

Areas such as Liverpool and Warrington are some of the most populous to this day, records show that members of the family moved to these areas as early as the 18th century.

Historically, Upper Burma was predominantly Bamar ( whereas Lower Burma was historically Mon-speaking until the early 1800s ), while the Frontier Areas, as designated by the colonial administration, included ethnic minority areas, such as the Shan States and modern Kachin State.