TRIMLY DRESSED deliverymen, polite and punctual, are ubiquitous in Japan.
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"They are more punctual, they're losing fewer bags," Kaplan said.
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The host also chastised the contestants for not being punctual.
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She has heard it is a prosperous, punctual, disciplined place.
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WASHINGTON — Unfailingly punctual, he enters the office without a word.
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Pappa was so punctual that his punctuality lived inside me.
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Productivity shot up, attendance was better and employees were punctual.
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Three of Britain's four most punctual rail firms are concessions.
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I'll be the first to admit: I'm punctual to a fault.
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" "I asked the candidate if he considered himself a punctual person.
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Globally, Osaka Itami airport in Japan is the most punctual airport.
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"Argentina!" they scream back with a punctual shot, no chaser needed.
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Japanese people tend to be very strict and punctual about time.
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Everything—the lights, the architecture, the absurdly punctual trains—blew him away.
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They bring a nice atmosphere, are usually organizationally strong, punctual, and social.
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Because the mentality of the Germans is this punctual and exact thinking.
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A SUPPORTIVE BOYFRIEND A very punctual lady picks me up at 8.
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His interruptions were brief and punctual, and most team members accepted his unpredictability.
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I'm a punctual, anxious person, so I reminded Dad that the nuptials approached.
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"She's a punctual girl," Bowles wrote of his baby girl shortly after her arrival.
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Being punctual shows that you're serious, organized and respectful of others' time, he writes.
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Panthers live half as long as horses, because panthers are twice as punctual. Fact.
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Like their native neighbors, they are polite and punctual and ride their bicycles everywhere.
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He is more than punctual: he arrives precisely fifteen minutes early to every appointment.
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The advantages of USMCA ratification go far beyond punctual benefits in U.S. industries, however.
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The M train, however, was only punctual 2180 percent of the time in September.
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He is punctual and conscientious, his boss says, and pays taxes and welfare contributions.
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He is punctual and conscientious, his boss says, and pays taxes and welfare contributions.
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In comparison to the subway, she said, the ferry has been "extremely pleasant" and punctual.
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At 35, I am punctual, mobile and available — adjectives no woman chooses first for herself.
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And I'm more punctual and responsive thanks to constant access to my calendar and email.
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Lacks accountability, focus and trustworthiness — is not punctual, seeks shortcuts and sets a bad example.
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Less punctual (or decisive) customers have complained about missing out on the cheapest first-tier prices.
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Perhaps most puzzling is the punctual dimming and brightening of each of the cave's larvae colonies.
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One of my attending physicians noticed that I'd become more withdrawn, less punctual and occasionally distracted.
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Hawaiian Airlines was the most punctual airline, with nearly 21.54 percent of flights arriving on time.
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That marks the "most punctual timeframe" it has passed the legislation since 1988, according to the panel.
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Although its long-distance trains are pretty punctual by European standards, its short-haul ones run late.
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A report by OAG ranked the most punctual airlines of 2019 in terms of on-time performance.
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The famously punctual train lines have slowed to a crawl, affecting some 41,000 passengers, said the Japan Times.
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In the decades since deregulation in the 1970s, flights have become more punctual, more frequent and more convenient.
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Of the Top 5 most punctual airports, four are considered small, with 10 million departing seats or less.
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No matter how organized or punctual you are, you're bound to land in this situation at some point.
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Mr. Lü impressed the team with slick presentations and punctual shuttle buses, an official on the trip said.
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She is also inquisitive, punctual, quick to respond to emails, and married with a 12-year-old daughter.
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Butler, who described herself as "chronically punctual," was present at the vote "by sheer luck," she told MSNBC.
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Compared with previous hires, this group is more punctual and focused on building a career, Mr. Foster said.
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He directed John Cleese as an obsessively punctual headmaster in "Clockwise" (1986), with a screenplay by Michael Frayn.
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The room filled with about 150 Leaders Circle participants, and Hurd, ever punctual, started his keynote right on time.
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She's punctual, a trait inherited from her mother, who was deputy chief of protocol in Hillary Clinton's State Department.
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As overall performance declined again, Hawaiian, Delta and Alaska were the most punctual, while Frontier and JetBlue were laggards.
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He is scrupulously punctual and always well briefed, but he loves to surprise Western diplomats by flouting princely decorum.
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The punctual, organized and well-spoken millennials whom employers should want have played by the rules and completed college degrees.
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Across 2017, the most punctual airline was Latvian flag carrier airBaltic, which achieved OTP on 90.01 percent of its flights.
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A typical meal in the Mussolini household was punctual, with everyone seated and served at the table before his arrival.
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However, we understand that the sovereign has ensured full and punctual payment of all amounts that have become due since then.
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You don't need to be "quiet and demure, graceful, polite, delicate, refined, poised or punctual" ... you just need to be yourself.
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In the times I've been around him over the years, he's typically punctual (for a rapper); he politely answers questions thoughtfully.
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However, Flybe is not on airline data analytics firm OAG's latest list of the 10 most punctual airlines in the world.
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I think they are really straight and punctual and they like to go into details from the technical side, and in power metal, you have to be punctual, because it's fast and you have to play very exactly, because you have a lot of parts and it's not the kind of music to have these bluesy grooves.
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We arrived on time and stood patiently in the heat, but no Indian event would be done properly if people were punctual.
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Mr Zamil has discovered, to his delight, that Saudi women make better workers: "more disciplined, more punctual and higher-quality work," he says.
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"Even in more mundane ways as an airline in terms of being punctual and not losing bags," United scores comparatively low, he added.
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The punctual publication of the latest one has reassured greens that climate policies need not be a casualty of the country's current turmoil.
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On Tuesday morning, the anti-anti movement proves itself to be punctual, represented by at least a dozen members — and even some signage.
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It's not because I am a punctual person by nature — I am not — but rather because I am both slow and easily stressed.
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Musician and activist Ben Branch, the last person to whom King spoke, was also downstairs, giving Jackson a hard time about being punctual.
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TC: You're pretty candid in the book about not being punctual and not having great attention to detail, but these are minor offenses.
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The Republic of Austria guarantees the "due and punctual" payment of all obligations payable by HETA (as Hypo Alpe's legal successor) under the notes.
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However, Mr Zamil has discovered, to his delight, that Saudi women make better workers: "more disciplined, more punctual and higher-quality work," he says.
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Indeed, scientists have discovered that the group sex can be remarkably punctual, its onset typically at a precise but poorly understood time after dusk.
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Supervisors also reportedly said that their staffers were more creative, had better attendance, were more punctual and didn't leave early or take long breaks.
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I am usually very punctual and being late gives me anxiety, but he was late for our first date, so I don't feel too guilty.
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My boss is extremely punctual and often gets to the office a few hours earlier than us, so when we aren't here by 9 a.m.
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Amanda Augustine, a career expert for TopResume, says that just asking how your workers are doing every day and being punctual are keys to success.
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The message: Driving is messy and inconvenient, so you're much better off leaving your transportation in the hands of a punctual and friendly Lyft driver.
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But in Japan, where the railway system is famous for being consistently punctual, no more or less, leaving too soon doesn't quite fly with authorities.
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He compels those around him to be punctual, efficient, and prepared not by severity, but by living at a slightly higher standard than most people.
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"It just seems like the harder you work, the more punctual you are, the more integrity you have — none of that matters anymore," he said.
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But no matter how punctual you were—you had an appointment and you arrived perfectly on time—you would still say, I'm sorry I'm late .
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In Europe, where clean, safe, punctual public transit is already widely available, Oslo plans to ban all cars from its city center beginning next year.
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On-time flight statistics are reported in such detail that on some travel websites buyers use them to choose flights, rewarding punctual airlines and punishing laggards.
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In New Zealand, a company called Perpetual Guardian trialed the four-day workweek and noticed its staff were happier, more creative, more punctual, and more productive.
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Mayor Brian P. Stack was now two minutes late to meet him for a door-knocking swing through his town, mildly irritating the punctual Mr. Murphy.
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Hong Kong Airlines came second, with 88.83 percent punctuality, while in third place was Hawaiian Airlines, which took the title of most punctual North American airline.
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I went to an Episcopalian private school and rarely made it to chapel on time, so my promise to be punctual was essential in getting my way.
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They reserve "subjunctive" to describe a fuller and healthier bit of English: things like "so be it", "come what may", and "he insists that students be punctual".
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As a Swiss resident I can confirm that the cliché about Swiss people being punctual is true, too, with our trains running on time to the second.
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It is seeking to invest $2450 billion in repairs and improvements in the next decade, including upgrades to subway tracks and signals to make trains more punctual.
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The site reports 76.95% of Flybe flights were on time in 2018, and that the airline was named the most punctual UK-based carrier in a Which?
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The Los Angeles Zoo's newborn Masai giraffe sure is punctual: The female calf arrived just in time for World Giraffe Day, which is observed on Thursday, June 21.
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The Republic of Austria, as guarantor of the notes, was called under the guarantee and has since continued to ensure full and punctual payment of all amounts due.
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The last finding might be put down to the relaxed Lebanese attitude to time-keeping, except that a study of the punctual English found much the same thing.
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Boarding only started 10 minutes ago, but I guess Alaska Airlines is super punctual because they're already starting to call names for people who are "late" to board.
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Duterte was more punctual than usual: at 8:22 P.M. , his arrival was announced with a song, "Duterte for Real Reform," by the Filipino folk star Freddie Aguilar.
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Rome on Monday dismissed Commission accusations that it was dragging its feet in the case, saying it has always responded to requests from Brussels in a punctual manner.
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Germans are a steadfastly punctual people, and showing up to a social function, let alone work, even five minutes late without an apologetic phone call is considered bad form.
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" Robin Bernstein, the US ambassador to the Dominican Republic, told Univision that considering 2.7 million Americans visit the island nation each year, the deaths are "very punctual and unique.
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Some days or weeks didn't necessarily have conflicting times, but they were overbooked, making it unlikely I'd be able to be punctual or at ease when checking them off.
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" Being punctual allows you to effectively manage your day, he explained in a LinkedIn post last year: "Once you get behind, it is hard to catch back up again.
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While the rankings remained pretty constant from 2018, with a few exceptions, the overall trend in the industry shows airlines are becoming more punctual while overall performance declined slightly.
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After trawling through 285.73 million flight records from 2017, U.K. travel analyst firm OAG published Tuesday its list of the best ranked punctual airports and carriers in the world.
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"Quentin Tarantino, who has not left the editing room in four months, is a real, loyal and punctual child of Cannes," festival director Thierry Fremaux said in a statement.
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Biologists still aren't sure why or how cicadas emerge in such a punctual and plague-like manner, but they do know to expect a swarm every 17 or 13 years.
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Assuming that human spaceflight disasters are very punctual and this is all a matter of precise, clockwork mechanics, NASA's next big crackup will be on or around February 3, 2021.
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"On time" could mean punctual, but with the question mark, it takes on a different meaning: When you have something "on time," it means you've borrowed or purchased it temporarily.
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KEY RATING DRIVERS The Republic of Austria guarantees the "due and punctual" payment of all obligations payable by Hypo Alpe (and, consequently, Heta as Hypo Alpe's legal successor) under the notes.
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While Mercury is retrograde, make room for others' tardiness by telling them the event starts 30 minutes earlier than it actually does, especially if you know they're not the most punctual.
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I sit by myself up front, instead of with my roommate (who is more punctual than I am), because I focus better when I'm not seeing other people in the pews.
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With the pass on my phone and thus no need to validate tickets or go through turnstiles, it felt like a punctual, hygienic and omnipresent friend was constantly giving me a ride.
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If your resolution is to be more punctual The last resolution tool isn't exactly an app, but it does use your smartphone to try to cure you of an annoying habit — being late.
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Here, we have four out of five, which I think we can still call a complete meal (but I think being a few minutes late is still punctual, so what do I know).
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A number of fast-food and casual-dining restaurants around the country, like McDonald's and Bob Evans, are actively recruiting senior citizens who employers say are more sociable and punctual than teenagers, Bloomberg reports.
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You are clearly a precise, punctual, and to-the-point person, which means you are efficient with your time and can't waste precious seconds on anything beyond asking a timer to be set for you.
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From his grand Manhattan office on 26 Broadway, the fastidiously punctual former book-keeper, with an eye permanently on the ledger, launched a "cut-to-kill" strategy whenever competition threatened his stranglehold on the kerosene industry.
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"Honestly, he's the most consistent athlete I've been around in a long time, as far as just being on time and punctual and what he demands out of himself," Mike Atkinson, Kanter's personal performance coach, says.
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Companies are now focusing their recruiting efforts on this older demographic, particularly for project assignments, because as a group, retirees exhibit less turnover, less absenteeism, are punctual, have more experience, are more productive and have superior customer-service skills.
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SEOUL/HANOI (Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's long trip to Vietnam for a second summit with U.S. President Donald Trump is causing sleepless nights back home, according to extensive and unusually punctual North Korean state media coverage.
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One of the sources of tension between the communities, insofar as they interacted at all, had been what was perceived to be their differing notions of time—the Dutch were reputed to be rigidly punctual, the Latinos to be late.
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"Interviewers gather clues about you based on whether you are punctual, how you are dressed, your handshake, the eye contact you make and the first words that come out of your mouth," said Rosemary Haefner, chief human resources officer for CareerBuilder.
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In some studies, like this Health Affairs report on two CareMore facilities in southern California, Lyft rides proved more punctual than non-Lyft counterparts and there was a 39 percent reduction in transportation costs in first year and a half.
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In Caracas, Venezuela, where inflation is expected to reach a staggering 1,000,000% by year's end, the once "punctual, efficient and clean" metro system had to stop charging its standard 4 bolívar fare after running out of paper to print tickets.
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Often punctual even when on a packed schedule of rallies and town halls, Buttigieg was later than usual the day before the New Hampshire primary and had an afternoon free of campaign stops following a morning meet-and-greet in Plymouth.
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According to the sovereign guarantee, should the notes - due to regulatory or other developments including statutory loss absorption - bear losses such as a write-down, conversion into equity or any other resolution measure, the sovereign would ensure continued and punctual payment of the originally guaranteed payment amounts.
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In Shakespeare's "Macbeth," the murder of King Duncan seems to lead to a solar eclipse that turns the day dark and reflects the horror and evil of human misconduct; today, the punctual arrival of an eclipse seems a tribute less to superstition than to mathematical exactitude.
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" Though he does not emphasize it, there is something deeply melancholy in his vision of the "new poetic form" that "marks the punctual encounter between a subject, who is an infinite network of sensations, and a sensible world that exceeds all closure of the field of strategic action.
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With a crew of about a dozen at all times — including a relatively new security guard who resembles an oak tree built out of multiple smaller oak trees — the rapper was punctual and accommodating, hitting all of his marks while sneaking FaceTime kisses to his 2-year-old daughter.
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This qualified as a rare wrong step for the perpetually punctual Schweinsteiger, who, four months after he arrived in Chicago tasked with turning around the city's struggling Major League Soccer team, the Chicago Fire, has immersed himself in his new city and soaked it up like a sponge.
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Winter has been pretty punctual so far this year: It's only three days into December, and many of us have already overcome our lingering Thanksgiving food comas with holiday gift shopping (capitalizing on the huge Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals, naturally) while enduring the season's first snowstorm.
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A few rainstorms flooded the archaic drainage network and crippled almost every single one of its lines that year, but the Metropolitan Transit Agency's trains were relatively punctual compared to now, when a daily ridership that nears six million people is subject to about 75,000 wholly aggravating delays every month.
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While their transitions have been at times tense — the military notion of mission over ego as well as a preference for punctual meetings and clear lines of authority do not always translate well on Capitol Hill — these lawmakers are a cornerstone of the Democratic Party's strategy to maintain the House in 2020.
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A counter punctual examination of sugar and tobacco, the two dialectical sources of production within the plantation economy modeled in Cuba (and the Caribbean), showed how this rural mode of exploitation that is linked to slavery — being Cuba one of the most important slave trade enclaves between the 16th and 19th centuries — originated a new and dynamic way of thinking.
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Historians believe that the holy Muslim site the Dome of the Rock was built in the shape of an octagon both as a reflection of Ancient Persian architectural influence and, more symbolically, because Jannah, the Muslim paradise, is surrounded by eight gates that represent eight virtues that will grant believers entrance, including Bāb al-Salah, for those who were punctual in prayer; Bāb al-Rayyān, for those who fasted; and Bāb al-Dhikr, for those who showed zeal in remembering God.
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According to legal docs obtained by TMZ ... Madonna and Live Nation are being sued by a ticket holder in Florida who claims he lost a bunch of money after they moved the start of concerts from 8:30 PM to 10:30 PM. In the docs, Nate Hollander claims way back in August he purchased tickets to Madonna's December 17 concert in Miami Beach, and it was originally slated to begin at 8:30 PM. According to the suit ... Madonna has not been punctual on tour, often taking stage two hours later than scheduled, and she recently switched her start times to 10:30 PM, which Nate claims is ridiculous for the Tuesday evening show he was planning to attend.
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