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Twelve years of unrelenting churn in neighboring Iraq is beginning to take a toll on the Kingdom.
The events of the last twelve months have surely driven home to most people that the most dangerous conflict facing humanity in the future is not the conflict between Man and the environment, but between Man and Man.
Since last year alone, minimum wages in nine of twelve coastal provinces (including Beijing) rose by an average of more than 21%.
Twelve years later, after the terrorist attacks of 2001, the US and its Western allies had to return to fight Al Qaeda and the Taliban, which had turned Afghanistan into a breeding ground of Islamist terrorism.
Serbia, meanwhile, has opened twelve and provisionally closed two.
Most of the people over whom Obiang rules live in extreme poverty, with an average life expectancy of 49 years and an infant mortality rate of 87 per 1,000 live births (in other words, more than one child in twelve dies before its first birthday).
In the case of the Fed, seven members of the Board in Washington have a federal remit, and twelve presidents of regional reserve banks vote in rotation, with only the New York president having a permanent voice.
But time is relative: "soon" came to mean twelve years that included a savage war and the Holocaust.
Twelve of the 15 countries reneged on promises not to restrict worker flows from the new members as they realized that Austria and Germany were closing their borders to immigration from their eastern neighbors.
In a rare show of state determination, President Mesic suspended and forced into retirement all twelve officers.
Parrying with Tudjman loyalists continued into the spring of this year, with the arrest of Mirko Norac, one of the twelve generals, who was accused of massacring Serb civilians in 1991.
Between 1991 and 2000, twelve Latin American countries adopted legislation requiring minimum percentages of women on the party lists used for the election of national legislators.
The interest rates on the euro-denominated sovereign debt of the twelve euro-zone governments are all very similar.
The past twelve months was the hottest 12-month period since measurements began.
Barely twelve, I left Saigon a month before its fall with an American officer whom I had befriended in an army hospital, where my mother and I volunteered.
Twelve years ago, during and after reunification, the question was whether the German colossus would be tempted to establish first an economic and then a political hegemony over the continent.
Germany’s exports exceeded its imports by nearly $200 billion in the past twelve months, a surplus equivalent to nearly 6% of GDP.
Forging twelve independent, proud, and, in some cases, powerful national central banks into a cohesive collective was no easy task.
Nobody ever doubted that Ukraine had changed vastly in its twelve years of independence.
Indeed, in the twelve months following the unconditional surrender of Hitler's Nazi regime in May 1945, I lived under serial Russian, American, and British occupation.
Twelve months later, normality seems as distant as ever – and economic headwinds from China are a major cause.
Many more have had to flee in the past twelve months.
Twelve years after the attacks of September 11, 2001, the country was saddened, but it was also better informed.
Twelve European Union countries currently have or are implementing similar special tax regimes, or “patent boxes," for income from intellectual property, which is taxed at rates of 5-15%.
So widespread is this view that even noncommunist socialist parliamentarians in Poland proposed a law that is supposed to control access to pornography with the help of a council of twelve (I would love to be one of them!) who will spend their days browsing through hundreds, if not thousands, of periodicals and movies in search of the salacious, and decide what to ban.
The ICC has opened four active investigations, issued public charges against twelve people, and to date secured custody of four.
The Sunnis have four imams and the Shias have twelve; their teachings all differ.
No question: the past ten or twelve years in Latin America represented a turning point for democracy in the region.
Athena, the Goddess of Wisdom and patron of Athens, decides that only a fair trial, with a jury of twelve men, can pacify the furies and restore peace.
To cite one example: the memorandum of economic policies submitted by the Korean government to the IMF (March 10th, 1999) contains one-and-a-half pages on macroeconomic policy, and twelve densely-packed pages on privatization, financial sector restructuring, prudential regulation and supervision, corporate restructuring, trade and capital account liberalization, and transparency, monitoring and data reporting.
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