High living costs are felt by everyone, including restaurant owners.
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High living costs meant Tokyo to fell behind other cities, however.
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In the end, it was their high living that ultimately brought them down.
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On the flip side, it also exacerbates housing scarcity and sky-high living costs.
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It also fueled public anger over high living costs and a widening wealth gap.
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Meanwhile, high living costs in South Korea and Taiwan weighed on people's wealth expectations.
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In the 1980s, he built a media profile as an insouciant, high-living apex predator.
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On the streets, a backlash over high living costs and perceived elitism has also simmered down.
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She knew little of New York, and imagined his days and nights busy with high living.
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And, high living costs in many metro areas are preventing millennials from building down payment savings.
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Reagan's speech about a high-living "welfare queen" mattered as much as sunny talk of individual liberty.
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Despite the highest debt in the developed world, Japan remains an economic powerhouse with high living standards.
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At first glance it is difficult to see how Britain's 12m pensioners can afford all this high living.
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Israel has experienced sporadic labour unrest over severe income disparities and low wages relative to high living costs.
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Thousands of Guianese have taken to the streets to protest against high living costs, lack of jobs and crime.
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KEEP IT UP On the streets, a backlash over high living costs and perceived elitism has also simmered down.
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A high-living couple can splurge out, springing for a monthly budget of $2,500 for an indulgent life here.
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Zurich, a global banking and finance center, also benefits from picturesque scenery and Switzerland's globally renowned high living standards.
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In January, Iranian security forces quelled nation-wide anti-government protests over youth unemployment, high living costs and alleged corruption.
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But there has been rising discontent over a lack of jobs and high living costs, especially in the country's interior.
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In particular, San Francisco residents are facing high living costs: The median list price of a home is $1.19 million.
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In Manhattan, it isn't easy to ask for compassion in cases of sexual victimization, or of high-living financial fraudsters.
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The van conversion was done for a Bay Area resident who wanted to curtail the area&aposs high living costs.
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Given the relatively high living standard in the U.K., it receives positive net migration of people from the EU each year.
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High living standards and competitive salaries have seen the Swiss nation become a regular fixture among the world's most livable cities.
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Gone are the days of us being young and high, living together in New York—that's never going to happen again.
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Health workers say premarital sex is more common, in part because the age of marriage is rising (many blame high living costs).
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Or Game of Thrones (I think—I've never actually seen it.) A self-made, high-living, and ultimately beloved sports owner dies.
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Countries can maintain high living standards and decent job markets even with the low-growth future that Treasury bond rates are implying.
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More important, the trade-off that Lee Kuan Yew offered still holds: illiberal politics in exchange for good government and high living standards.
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Other cities, like New York and San Francisco, have high living expenses, but they also have higher wages and more jobs, Solonin said.
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They are splurging on cars, fashion and entertainment, reshaping China's consumption landscape as their peers in Shanghai and Beijing contend with high living costs.
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If Sweden is to remain exceptional—for its high living standards and generous attitude to people fleeing barrel bombs—far bigger changes are needed.
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The city is already battling problems such as sky-high living costs and what people see as an unfair housing policy favoring the wealthy.
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Thousands of Chileans protested in Santiago against high living costs, prompting President Sebastian Pinera to declare that the country was "at war" with vandals.
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This is strange, since almost everything people like about the modern world, including relatively high living standards, is traceable to the advance of technology.
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A hike in metro fares sparked the initial protests, laying bare long-simmering frustrations over high living costs and an uneven distribution of wealth.
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With rooms upward of $400 a night, the hotel is more reminiscent of the high-living Hamptons than the kitschy and gritty Jersey Shore.
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In absolute terms, of course, a poor country with low wages is almost always going to be cheaper than a country with high living standards.
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Their hopes of carving out a future in big cities are being wrecked by high living costs, demographic change and the hostility of local governments.
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Japan faces a shrinking population and the need for fundamental structural reforms—as well as unprecedented levels of immigration—to sustain its high living standards.
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Plus, since every home on this list is an Airbnb Plus rental, it's been verified by Airbnb for in-person quality and high living standards.
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The Associated Press reported that protesters looted businesses, vandalized buildings and monuments and clashed with police amid unrest over rising taxes and high living costs.
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They documented the diversion of dues for high living by union officials and found a conspiracy that may have compromised dealings with a leading automaker.
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With student debt, high living costs, and record levels of credit-card debt, many Americans are looking for ways to pay for their travel splurges.
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The high-living prince is unpopular among Thais and loathed by the elites, many of whom would have preferred his younger sister, Princess Sirindhorn, as monarch.
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But with a low wage and high living costs, she is unable to save much, making her part of a large and seemingly permanent urban underclass.
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Skyrocketing property prices have added to growing discontent in the city, with its population already under strain from high living costs and a widening wealth gap.
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Unlike Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, who entered the Élysée with four decades of high living behind her, she is a model with the past of a nun.
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With [the] high living cost, life isn't easy sometimes, but I'm in Bandung [the region's capital] right now, since Bandung is a "border" between city and nature.
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West of Los Angeles, this community overlooking the Pacific Ocean has some expensive homes and high living costs, making it now the most unaffordable place for seniors.
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Ten cities have been placed in a state of emergency and under evening lockdown since riots broke out last Friday during protests at high living costs and inequality.
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Single person households accounted for 2178.9200% of South Korean households in 2018, almost double 2020 levels as high living costs make marriage and children a less popular option.
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"She wants to be like Zsa Zsa Gabor," sang Dion of a high-living ex in 1963's "Donna the Prima Donna," and everybody knew what he meant.
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Authorities say 21MDB's money was also spent on gambling and used to make the "Wolf of Wall Street", a film about a high-living swindler starring Leonardo DiCaprio.
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Single person households accounted for 29% of South Korean households in 2018, almost double 2020 levels as high living costs make marriage and children a less popular option.
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It was the 10-foot-high living stump of what was once a mighty London plane tree, with a hollow inside big enough for people to stand in.
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Germany is the country that built its riches and high living standards under the U.S. military umbrella, and with the befit of a liberal access to U.S. markets.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Sixty-five people have been injured, including 11 members of the security forces, in protests against high living costs in central Paris, the police department said.
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Jed Richardson, a scientist with the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and one of the researchers, said high-living costs, including tuition fees in some instances, might explain the results.
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According to Finke, there might be some jobs that will disappear in coming years but due to technological development and high living costs in big cities such as London.
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Neighborhoods in Oakland, the East Bay, San Jose, and pockets of San Francisco itself continue to survive as areas where high living costs have yet to drive people out.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Turnout at "yellow vest" protests across France, a backlash against high living costs that has lasted nearly four months, fell on Saturday to its lowest level yet.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Turnout at "yellow vest" protests across France, a backlash against high living costs that has lasted nearly four months, fell on Saturday to its lowest level yet.
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The name is a reference to the public square in the Chilean capital where protesters have gathered over the past three months to denounce inequality and high living costs.
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"Many are looking for paid employment because they can't feed their families," Borer said, adding that major airports are particularly challenged because they are in cities with high living costs.
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The protests erupted in November over the high cost of diesel and high living costs, and are named after the high-visibility jackets French motorists must carry in their car.
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The result is high living standards: the lowest wages, for example in hotels or restaurants, are far higher than minimum wages elsewhere in Europe says Marten Blix, a Swedish economist.
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In those cases, clubs must still ensure that the player continues his education and studies for an alternative career, as well as making sure he has a high living standard.
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"We thought it was firecrackers or a joke to begin with, what with the yellow vest protests at the moment," he said, referring to nationwide demonstrations against high living costs.
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Even if your real reason for favoring low taxes is that they let your wealthy friends engage in even more high living, you're not supposed to say that out loud.
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Millennials ages 18 to 24, on the other hand, had the smallest percentage of respondents to contend that high living costs get in the way of saving at 22 percent.
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In a commentary last week, the People's Daily said Zhang wrote "fantastically" to stir up emotion and pointed to the numbers that continue to flock to Beijing, despite high living costs.
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She took issue with some of the high-living show's "consumer aspects," she said, recalling her unease when an audience at a premiere cheered at the sight of an expansive closet.
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Countries like Germany and Denmark that engage in a lot of foreign trade and have high living standards spend far more money on training and jobs programs than the United States.
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In speeches, the prime minister makes a point of distancing the ruling Syriza party from the corrupt, high-living elite he blames for plunging the country into an unprecedented eight-year recession.
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Some called Mr Lee "Seungsby" (after the Great Gatsby, a high-living fictional anti-hero); the analogy has become even more apt since things all started to unravel spectacularly for Mr Lee.
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But soaring property costs will be problematic for the new administration in the former British colony where the population is already under strain from high living costs and a widening wealth gap.
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The government had postponed introducing the measure in December as France reeled from nationwide unrest and sometimes violent "yellow vest" protests over high living costs and the squeeze felt on household budgets.
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House prices in the locations the film was shot have increased by over 200 percent; they salivated, as though the onslaught of impossibly high living costs is universally received as great news.
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At first glance, this might look odd because we are used to the movie portrayal of high-living famous gangsters being given immunity while living in the US Marshal's Witness Protection Program.
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The number of "yellow vest" demonstrators marching against high living costs in France dwindled on Saturday following several weeks of waning turnout, more than six months into the protests against President Emmanuel Macron.
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Young people have mostly been at the forefront of the protests, infuriated with broader problems including sky-high living costs and what they see as an unfair housing policy skewed towards the rich.
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Young people have mostly been at the forefront of the protests, angry about broader problems including sky-high living costs and what they see as an unfair housing policy skewed towards the rich.
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France was roiled in late 2018 and the first half of this year by sometimes violent anti-government protests against high living costs and Macron's first wave of reforms to liberalize the economy.
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From the monstrous cache of 1980s and '90s videotape that Kapadia has assembled, we see a curly maned nightclub hound who was happy to play the part of a high-living party animal.
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The protests, which seem spontaneous and without a unifying leader, erupted a week ago in Iran's second city of Mashhad over economic hardships - mostly high youth unemployment, high living costs and alleged corruption.
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Harris' campaign is expected to concentrate on slashing the high living costs for those with a middle-class tax credit, along with looking into criminal justice changes, immigration and health care, according to Reuters.
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The Catalan crisis leads to a final question about nationhood: Can Western Europe's nations hope to preserve their wealth and high living standards in a globalized economy without pooling their nationhood into something greater?
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Considered one of the fastest-growing nations in the Gulf region, the UAE has been attracting young, international workers for years with its offer of competitive salaries, high living standards and strong career progression opportunities.
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PARIS (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron's popularity ratings recovered in January, a survey showed on Tuesday, after a series of government concessions aimed at ending a wave of "yellow vest" protests against high living costs.
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Part of Xi's fight against deep-seated graft has been to ensure officials are not seen abusing their positions and wasting public money, after a series of scandals involving high-living bureaucrats ignited public anger.
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PARIS (Reuters) - The number of "yellow vest" demonstrators marching against high living costs in France dwindled on Saturday following several weeks of waning turnout, more than six months into the protests against President Emmanuel Macron.
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Before the attack, Mr. Filin and Mr. Dmitrichenko clashed openly for control over the dancers' union, with Mr. Dmitrichenko denouncing Mr. Filin for corruption and high living while most dancers were paid and treated badly.
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He spoke after rioters torched motorbikes and set barricades ablaze on Paris's upmarket Boulevard Saint-Germain on Saturday, underscoring how protests against high living costs and President Emmanuel Macron have turned violent on the fringes.
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It&aposs a resounding rejection of the region by one of its most famous success stories, at a time of already-mounting debate over high living costs, income inequality, and other dysfunction in the region.
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The "yellow vest" revolt, driven by high living costs and frustration at President Emmanuel Macron's leadership, shows scant sign of abating after two months of unrest, even after he made some tax and minimum wage concessions.
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Skyrocketing property prices have added to growing discontent in the city, with its population already under strain from high living costs and a widening wealth gap although few buyers expected them to ease any time soon.
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The meeting at the Chateau de Chambord, built some 250 years before the nation's high-living aristocracy were ousted by workers and peasants in the 1789 revolution, was called to discuss the future of European agriculture.
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That came on top of problems in France, where a backlash over high living costs led to riots in Paris which according to Richemont "negatively impacted tourism and led to store closures for six consecutive Saturdays".
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The reading of 95 points marked the highest level for the consumer confidence index since October, which was the month before "yellow vests" protesters started weekend marches against high living costs and President Emmanuel Macron's policies.
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But many young people in one of the world's most densely populated and expensive cities are also infuriated by sky-high living costs, and a feeling that a home of one's own is just a dream.
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Rioters in Paris torched motorbikes and set barricades ablaze on the upmarket Boulevard Saint Germain on Saturday, as protests against high living costs and the perceived indifference of President Emmanuel Macron turned violent on the fringes.
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The International Butler Academy China opened in 2014 here in Chengdu, a haze-covered city in southwest China, and offers a six-week boot camp on dinner service, managing homes and other minutiae of high living.
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If — as this column discussed last month — the preferred retirement spots for Americans are in the Sun Belt states, then New York City, famous for its harsh winters and high living costs, is an offbeat choice.
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It was offered up during plea negotiations as Manafort's lawyers sought to preserve assets for Manafort's wife, Kathleen, and for the once notoriously high-living political consultant to subsist on when he gets out of prison.
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Authorities were caught off-guard by the escalation in violence after two weeks of nationwide unrest against fuel taxes and high living costs, known as the "yellow vest" movement after the fluorescent jackets worn by the protesters.
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The reading of 95 points marked the highest level for the consumer confidence index since October, which was the month before France's "Yellow Vests" protesters started to wage weekly demonstrations against high living costs and Macron's policies.
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Young people are at the forefront of the protests, worried about China encroaching on Hong Kong's freedoms and problems such as sky-high living costs and what many see as an unfair housing policy favoring the wealthy.
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The spark for the protests was a now-withdrawn extradition bill and concerns that Beijing is eroding civil liberties, but many young protesters are also angry about sky-high living costs and a lack of job prospects.
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"His life in court took on an entertainment quality smacking of reality TV." It's a tactic Trump honed early with the help of his lawyer Roy Cohn, the high-living and fearsome attorney who once helped Sen.
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French police fired tear gas, stun grenades and water cannon in battles with "yellow vest" protesters trying to breach security cordons on the Champs Elysees in Paris on Saturday ahead of a third rally against high living costs.
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French President Emmanuel Macron visited the Arc de Triomphe in Paris on Sunday — one day after it was covered with graffiti from protestors who are furious with the country's fuel tax hike and high living costs, AP reports.
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NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Africa needs to reform its systems for buying and selling land and invest aggressively in urban infrastructure to create jobs, end poverty and reduce cities' high living costs, the World Bank said on Thursday.
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France is preparing for another wave of potentially violent protests on Saturday - a backlash against high living costs but also, increasingly, a revolt against President Emmanuel Macron himself, including his perceived loftiness and reforms favoring a moneyed elite.
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Macron, who promised to clean up French politics, has already lost one environment minister last year over his perceived failure to make good on green policy promises, and faced months of "yellow vest" protests over high living costs.
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"He arranged for a crocodile tail, and it was a big one," more than three feet long, recalls Zhang Jianjin, a former party secretary of a pharmaceutical company whose high living was paid for by businessmen seeking favors.
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French motorway operator Sanef said earlier this week it was working on proposals to cushion the impact on drivers of a planned hike in toll charges, following a government request as nationwide protests over high living costs continue.
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Golf has grown in popularity in China but hampered in recent years by a sweeping anti-graft campaign under President Xi Jinping, as tales of officials' high living, including expensive rounds on the golf course, stirred public resentment.
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FURTHER DEMONSTRATIONS Young people are at the forefront of the protests, worried about China encroaching on Hong Kong's freedoms and problems such as sky-high living costs and what many see as an unfair housing policy favoring the wealthy.
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PARIS (Reuters) - French motorway operator Sanef said on Tuesday it was working on proposals to cushion the impact on drivers of a planned hike in toll charges, following a government request as nationwide protests over high living costs continue.
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Such high living slowly took its toll on Mr. Martínez, who said that he began to snort as much as four grams of cocaine a day — often, he admitted, from a gold spoon dipped into a little gold canister.
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PARIS (Reuters) - France's prime minister met with opposition leaders on Monday as President Emmanuel Macron sought a way to defuse nationwide protests over high living costs that led to widespread rioting in Paris at the weekend and are hurting the economy.
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PARIS (Reuters) - French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said that after three months of public debate it was that clear tax cuts must be speeded up to quell the widespread anger over high living costs that has fueled anti-government protests.
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PARIS (Reuters) - With no police in sight, Sweden's ambassador to France called on neighbors to help put out a small fire lit outside her Embassy during "yellow vest" protests against high living costs and the policies of President Emmanuel Macron.
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France's equivalent of Air Force One is an old Airbus A330 that was bought second-hand 10 years ago and given a luxury refit for use by Nicolas Sarkozy, whose penchant for high-living earned him the nickname "President Bling Bling".
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San Francisco was ruled out partly because of its high living costs, and the longer time difference — by three hours, compared with the East Coast — in communicating with G.E.'s units in Europe, where the company has a sizable business.
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Young people have been at the forefront of the protests, worried about China encroaching on Hong Kong's freedoms but also concerned with issues such as sky-high living costs and what many see as an unfair housing policy favouring the wealthy.
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Winning foreign investment for tourism developments is key for the kingdom as it tries to refocus its image and move on from the Khashoggi fallout, as well as maintain a high living standard for Saudis as oil prices come down.
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Mahathir said leaders in his Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia (PPBM) outfit, which contested the by-election under the PH banner, felt a cabinet reshuffle was needed to address public complaints on issues such as high living costs and the economy.
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GRAND-BOURGTHEROULDE, France (Reuters) - France's Emmanuel Macron began a national debate on Tuesday meant to calm protests against high living costs, but he may have started on the wrong foot by suggesting some poor people were "screwing" with the system.
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PARIS (Reuters) - France braced on Friday for another wave of protests against high living costs that could inflict more pain on tourism and transport stocks in the euro zone's No. 20.8799 economy, after retailers, airlines and hoteliers suffered their worst week in months.
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It is perhaps fair to say Hungary is now experimenting with "Goulash democracy," where voters accede to Orban's consolidation of power and are in turn sheltered from the storms of the free market capitalism by high living standards and generous state support.
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"The 25 million milestone is a perfect opportunity to engage in a broad public discussion about what future population growth should look like for Australia and how that can be balanced with preserving high living standards and quality of life," Smith told Reuters.
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And despite the city's high living costs, Marti said rents may actually be stabilizing right now, in which case investors may be holding off on investing in new projects at the moment, since they're not seeing rents going up for these luxury units.
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The banquet booze ban was considered to be the toughest measure of its kind made yet across China, which has cracked down on corruption and high-living among senior officials since President Xi Jinping came to power more than three years ago.
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The spark for the protests that have rocked the Asian financial hub was a now-withdrawn extradition bill and concern Beijing is eroding civil liberties, but many young protesters are also angry at sky-high living costs and a lack of job prospects.
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The pension system, like universal health care, is part of the generous welfare state that was created after World War II, and many in France are very attached to what they see as a hard-fought guarantee of high living standards for seniors.
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Winning foreign investment for tourism developments is key for the kingdom as it tries to refocus its image and move on from the diplomatic crises of the last year as well as maintain high living standards for Saudis as oil prices come down.
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PARIS, Dec 20.8799 (Reuters) - France braced on Friday for another wave of protests against high living costs that could inflict more pain on tourism and transport stocks in the euro zone's No. 2 economy, after retailers, airlines and hoteliers suffered their worst week in months.
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The buying frenzy comes at a time when home prices in Hong Kong have reached new record highs, bucking government cooling measures, and potentially fueling discontent in a city whose population is already under strain from high living costs and a widening wealth gap.
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The spark for the protests that have rocked the Chinese-ruled city for months was a now-withdrawn extradition bill and concern Beijing is eroding civil liberties, but many young protesters are also angry at sky-high living costs and a lack of job prospects.
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A like-minded communityIt may seem like moving out of state would separate us from our community, but these days, with so many residents fleeing cold weather and high living expenses, we're likely to find a like-minded group of fellow transplants wherever we go.
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The suddenly hot issue not only is forcing Trump to address Acosta's actions, the case itself -- with its horrific allegations -- and his own decision to nominate the labor secretary, but is also reminding Americans that Epstein was once one of the President's own high-living friends.
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High living costs are also taking a toll: Most of the states in this group, including the three voting on Tuesday, have seen a net outflow of residents to the rest of the country in recent years, although immigration has allowed their overall populations to keep growing.
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Casanova's autobiography, "The Story of My Life," provides granular insight into the 18th century's social manners over its 17663,700 handwritten pages: how high-living Europeans feasted and gambled, how they chose their clothes or styled their hair, how they maintained a veneer of piety while seducing one another.
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That's why we created the Vox Vacation Index, which combines exchange rate and inflation information to tell you which countries are getting cheaper to visit: In absolute terms, of course, a poor country with low wages is almost always going to be cheaper than a country with high living standards.
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What Sanders and other so-called radicals are advocating is routinely called "social democracy" abroad -- a phrase used infrequently in the US. It provides a pragmatic course that delivers lower inequality, better health care and improved work conditions, together with high living standards and a dynamic and innovative private sector.
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As well as high living standards, Spain produces a whole host of fruits and vegetables for both domestic consumption and export, so food is cheaper than in the US. Many fruits and vegetables considered harder to get hold of — like artichokes and peaches, for example — are grown locally on Spanish soil.
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The story is now focused even more closely on the central relationship between Crowley, the high-living devil who kicks the plot into gear by misplacing the baby Antichrist, and the prudish angel Aziraphale, who works with Crowley in a desperate, covert, comical campaign to keep the world from ending.
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The high-living protagonist leaves the scene of an altercation with his wife and nanny over his son and heads straight to the Greyhound station to start a picaresque journey to the other end of the country — a journey in search of an old girlfriend and, one surmises, an autism-less American dream.
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The British press ate up the mildly salacious rumors of drug abuse, tattoos and high living that ensued, and Mr. Polunin — about whom a documentary film has recently been made — became famous beyond the dance world, hitting a viral streak (close to 17 million views to date) on YouTube in a solo filmed by David LaChapelle.
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Pence or Haley or a dozen other Republicans could pursue Pence's policies without routinely embarrassing the country on Twitter, letting state secrets slip to the Russian foreign minister, taking the side of neo-Nazi marchers, bankrupting the Secret Service with high living, and — most fundamentally of all — leaving the country in a state of agonizing suspense as to what's going to happen when an unfit president has to wrestle with a crisis that's not of his own making.
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