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  • The Central and Eastern European business is generally the most profitable in UniCredit's geographical portfolio, but also the segment that was shaken hardest by the global financial and economic crisis, as currency devaluations, weak public finances and a slowdown in foreign investments sent bad loans sky-rocketing in the region.

    Unicredit Names Ghizzoni as CEO Sabrina Cohen 2010

  • At the same time, Mr. Zapatero's government, under the threat of sky-rocketing borrowing costs, is locked into its plans to cut the country's budget deficit nearly by half to 6% of gross domestic product in 2011, and by half again in 2013, to bring it into line with the 3%-of-GDP limit for European Union countries.

    Spanish Unions Prepare for Strike Jonathan House 2010

  • At this very moment, the effects of climate change are all around us: Texas is withering under the driest seven months on record; flooding from the Mississippi River has devastated a huge swath of the South; food prices are sky-rocketing due to dueling droughts and flooding worldwide.

    Brendan Smith: Are Progressives in Denial About Climate Change? Brendan Smith 2011

  • As a result, the real estate price in this city is sky-rocketing day by day.

    Millennium Star | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles 2009

  • At this very moment, the effects of climate change are all around us: Texas is withering under the driest seven months on record; flooding from the Mississippi River has devastated a huge swath of the South; food prices are sky-rocketing due to dueling droughts and flooding worldwide.

    Brendan Smith: Are Progressives in Denial About Climate Change? Brendan Smith 2011

  • At this very moment, the effects of climate change are all around us: Texas is withering under the driest seven months on record; flooding from the Mississippi River has devastated a huge swath of the South; food prices are sky-rocketing due to dueling droughts and flooding worldwide.

    Brendan Smith: Are Progressives in Denial About Climate Change? Brendan Smith 2011

  • At this very moment, the effects of climate change are all around us: Texas is withering under the driest seven months on record; flooding from the Mississippi River has devastated a huge swath of the South; food prices are sky-rocketing due to dueling droughts and flooding worldwide.

    Brendan Smith: Are Progressives in Denial About Climate Change? Brendan Smith 2011

  • At this very moment, the effects of climate change are all around us: Texas is withering under the driest seven months on record; flooding from the Mississippi River has devastated a huge swath of the South; food prices are sky-rocketing due to dueling droughts and flooding worldwide.

    Brendan Smith: Are Progressives in Denial About Climate Change? Brendan Smith 2011

  • At this very moment, the effects of climate change are all around us: Texas is withering under the driest seven months on record; flooding from the Mississippi River has devastated a huge swath of the South; food prices are sky-rocketing due to dueling droughts and flooding worldwide.

    Brendan Smith: Are Progressives in Denial About Climate Change? Brendan Smith 2011

  • Information radio in the United States is hardly something that our government should think is a top priority, especially when we have budget deficits, sky-rocketing unemployment, falling government revenue and critical public programs being cut.

    Richard Grenell: New Republican Congress Should Stop Funding NPR Richard Grenell 2010

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