Its workers abandoned tight-knit cities for ever more far-flung suburbs, requiring longer commutes.But as that trend has slowed, the HTF has suffered: monies paid into the HTF fell by around one-seventh from 2007 to 2010.
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According to the latest wealth report from estate agents Knight Frank, published on Wednesday, sales of super-yachts – boats longer than 24 metres – soared 40% in 2015, with the rich roaring off to ever more far-flung destinations, such as the Antarctic and outposts in Asia, rather than their traditional ports of call in the Mediterranean and the Caribbean.
But both of them probably have doubts about Mr Xi's vision of Asia's future of a region with China as its hub, with Chinese-led institutions playing an ever bigger role in Asian economies, and with a fast-growing Chinese navy deploying ever more visibly far from China's shores.
Either way, history will probably judge him not on the war in Iraq but on the one in Afghanistan whose outcome, amid requests for ever more reinforcements, is far from certain.
In the short term, they are ever more necessary but far from sufficient.
"When Gorbachev came to power, he began to move toward ever-deeper, more far-reaching reforms," journalist Fyodor Burlatsky told writer.
New venues such as Metrograph and the renovated Quad Cinema are springing up and bringing new and ever more ambitious and far-ranging programming — and they offer a combination of repertory screenings and new films in first run (usually limited to weeklong runs).
As the years passed, that military would be sent ever more regularly into the far reaches of the planet to fight frontier wars, establish military bases, and finally impose a global Pax Americana on the planet.
With school success and earning prospects ever more entwined, the consequences carry far: education, a force meant to erode class barriers, appears to be fortifying them.
More than that, the "truth" about the man, whatever that might be, proved ever more elusive – but also, paradoxically, far more interesting than the Hollywood version.
