Mainly due to reunification-related expenditures, Berlin as a German state has accumulated more debt than any other city in Germany, with the most current estimate being € 60 ($ 84 ) bn in December 2007.

The capital city of N ' Djaména, situated at the confluence of the Chari and Logone Rivers, is cosmopolitan in nature, with a current population in excess of 700, 000 people.

The first known reference to the site of the current city of Chicago as " Checagou " was by Robert de LaSalle around 1679 in a memoir written about the time.

The original city plot was around current day Ripley and 5th Streets, where Antoine LeClaire had built his house.

Predicting the rapid growth northward on Manhattan Island, Astor purchased more and more land beyond the current city limits.

Experts estimate that if current rates of increase persist, the coastal city of Atyrau, eighty-eight other population centers, and many of Kazakhstan's Caspian oil fields could be submerged by 2020.

They built the first school within the current boundaries of the city, but were forced out by mob violence in 1833 and their settlement was left vacant.

The relocation of Union Station to its current location in 1914 and the opening of the Liberty Memorial in 1923 gave the city two of its most identifiable landmarks.

Leipzig was a walled city in the Middle Ages and the current " ring " road around the city centre corresponds to the old city walls.

The short rainy season in March and April depends on a northerly counter current bringing moisture to the city: it has been shown clearly that weakness in the Benguela current can increase rainfall about sixfold compared with years when that current is strong.

Lansing began to grow steadily over the next two decades with the completion of the railroads through the city, a plank road, and the completion of the current capitol building in 1878.

By 1956, the city had grown to, and doubled in size over the next decade to its current size of roughly.

The city market, in existence since 1909, was approved to be sold for a multi-building mixed-use development called MarketPlace, right next to the current market on the adjacent riverfront.

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The current mayor of the city is Osama Al-Barr.

In 2006, Gerd Leers, then mayor of the border city of Maastricht, on the Dutch-Belgian border, criticised the current policy as inconsistent, by recording a song with the Dutch punk rock band De Heideroosjes.

Higher concentrations of THC and drug tourism have challenged the current policy and led to a re-examination of the current approach ; for e. g. ban of all sales of cannabis to tourists in coffee shops from end of 2011 was proposed but currently only the border city of Maastricht has adopted the measure in order to test out its feasibility.

The upper Niger, from the source past the trading city of Timbuktu to the bend in the current river, once emptied into a now-gone lake, while the lower Niger started in hills near that lake and flowed south into the Gulf of Guinea.

It has been verified by now that in the current position of the city rose a terramare.

Pisa (; ) is a city in Tuscany, Central Italy, on the right bank of the mouth of the River Arno on the Tyrrhenian Sea-and the current location of British-Dutch football, cycling and retro Southampton shirt enthusiast Jeff Thomas.

Among current problems that require solutions, participated in by citizens as well as government, are:

In this hour of crisis, the wisdom, the dedication, the stabilizing force that he represents in current American government is an almost indispensable source of strength.

The AAA's current ' Statement of Professional Responsibility ' clearly states that " in relation with their own government and with host governments ... no secret research, no secret reports or debriefings of any kind should be agreed to or given.

The individual articles set the rules for current and future operations of the United States government.

Lord Dufferin, the current Governor General, expressed early misgivings about a stonemason taking over government.

Critics of this type of argument have tended to point out that this is just a standard criticism of representative democracy — a democratically elected government will not always act in the direction of greatest current public support — and that, therefore, there is no inconsistency in the leaders ' positions given that these countries are parliamentary democracies.

In 1880, the French government awarded Bell the Volta Prize of 50, 000 francs ( approximately US $ 10, 000 at that time, about $ in current dollars ) for the invention of the telephone, which he used to found the Volta Laboratory, along with Sumner Tainter and Bell's cousin Chichester Bell.

In 2011, media analyst and political activist Mark Dice published a non-fiction book titled Big Brother: The Orwellian Nightmare Come True which analyses the parallels between elements of the storyline in Nineteen Eighty-Four, and current government programs, technology, and cultural trends.

The current president, General François Bozizé is a former army chief-of-staff and his government includes several high-level military officers.

High-ranking politicians and top level government officials that dominate global political scene and foreign affairs, headline major current events, play a pivotal role in domestic and international politics have a tremendous impact in day-to-day media have a strong likelihood to become celebrities.

The current government of the People's Republic of China is trying to encourage a form of market socialism.

The current government consists of Fine Gael and the Labour Party.

The current government is a coalition of 5 parties led by the Democratic Party.

The industrial sector's main problem is the deficit of energy, which the current government has tackled with the improvement of performance on existing hydro plants, and the creation of new ones.

The government has focused on improving the collection of its current revenues with a focus on indirect taxes.

The current government has embarked on a program of economic reform, including privatization of state enterprises and rationalization of government regulation.

The preparation for the charter was undertaken by the predecessor to the current Congress of Local and Regional Authorities, the Standing Conference of Local and Regional Authorities of Europe because involvement of local and regional government was essential.

In the current system, private banks are for-profit businesses but government regulation places restrictions on what they can do.

The French Revolution was a time of upheaval, especially towards traditional ideology, in almost every sense: the current monarch, King Louis XVI, was executed ; the Catholic Church was all but abolished ; a new calendar was created ; and a new Republican government was established.

A portion of the people on Guam favor a modified version of the current Territorial status, involving greater autonomy from the federal government ( similar to the autonomy of individual States ).

President Jagdeo is continuing on that course, and United States maintains positive relations with the current government.

In March 1995, the government of Prime Minister Gyula Horn implemented an austerity program, coupled with aggressive privatization of state-owned enterprises and an export-promoting exchange raw regime, to reduce indebtedness, cut the current account deficit, and shrink public spending.

By the end of 1997 the consolidated public sector deficit decreased to 4. 6 % of GDP — with public sector spending falling from 62 % of GDP to below 50 %— the current account deficit was reduced to 2 % of GDP, and government debt was paid down to 94 % of annual export earnings.

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