With few healthy banks left locally the most likely buyers of struggling lenders are outsiders, including foreign banks keen to expand their presence or private-equity firms.
But whereas the old process left locally rejected applicants no alternative but to appeal to the state board, last year's changes require local officials to pass on an application, rejected or approved, to the State Police firearms unit in Middletown.
Beltane caused flooding across Madagascar due to heavy rainfall, which killed one person and left locally heavy crop damage.
Those who don't speak our language, share our religion, belong to the wrong class, gender, colour or sexuality have always been left outside locally defined "humanity".
Where does this leave locally owned businesses?
To sample it all, order the meze, at €25 for two (but ample for three, possibly even four and the pet dog), with standout dishes including halloumi with fig marmalade, koupepia (minced pork and rice in vine leaves), locally made feta, the best moussaka I've ever had and the glide-off-the-bone home-baked lamb, kleftiko.
The "chewing tobacco" consists of dried tobacco leaves locally known as zarda (sweetened tobacco leaves) or gul (dried and powdered tobacco).
During the 1980s and 1990s, the British Ministry of Defence closed Gibraltar's naval dockyard and greatly reduced the military presence in the territory, leaving the locally raised Royal Gibraltar Regiment as the main military force in Gibraltar.
Using iterative point repulsion, noise is diffused away leaving a locally equidistributed point set with a blue noise spectral signature.
The PSDB has a chance in Belo Horizonte, Brazil's third city, where its candidate, a former footballer, will take on the left-wing incumbent.In this section Another president caught in Argentina's economic trap Church militant Locally left Nervous in Darien ReprintsIn municipal elections in Brazil, voting is swayed mainly by local issues and personalities.
A paternity suit in 18th-century Connecticut was no small thing, so Chapin, then a 26-year-old journeyman woodworker trained locally, left town.
