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A top Communist Party official from the southern province of Guangdong met with protest leaders from the embattled village of Wukan on Wednesday as the protest draws attention of ever-higher levels of government.

Chinese Village Protesters Get the Ear of Ever-Higher Officials Brian Spegele 2011

The longer Madrid waits to clean up these banks, the more expensive they become for everyone, as external financiers demand ever-higher premiums for extending credit to the Spanish system.

A Spanish Reckoning 2011

Top mountaineers climb the Himalayan giants in "alpine-style", carrying everything they have on their backs in one push, unsupported by huge base camps, and without fixing ropes and ferrying multiple loads to ever-higher points.

Wayne Hale's NASA Blog: Why Climb the Highest Mountain? - NASA Watch 2009

Russia has used its oil revenues to fund a huge increase in social spending over the last decade, something that has lifted millions of pensioners and state employees out of poverty, but which has also required ever-higher oil prices to ensure the budget balances.

Medvedev Pledges Economic Reforms Geoffrey T. Smith 2011

In a matter of days, there was a displacement, an apparent expansion of credit in the underground market, euphoric buying on expectations of ever-higher prices and finally revulsion once reality sank back in.

Great Speculations: Why China Is So Bubble-Friendly 2011

Faced with the choice of using any means necessary to save the euro or allowing Italy to default as investors demand an ever-higher risk premium for Rome's debt, Ms. Merkel may be forced to abandon her opposition to extraordinary defensive measures, economists say.

Pressure on Merkel Amplifies William Boston 2011

Although the company's operating margins have declined steadily in recent quarters, Amazon shares have continued to surge on ever-higher revenues.

Amazon Cuts Its Margin for Error 2011

Oil exporters too will experience a sharp increase in government spending, and current account and fiscal balances will narrow, making these economies reliant on ever-higher oil prices to balance their budgets.

Fallout From 'Days of Rage' In Middle East 2011

Heard on the Street Europe's Smart Money Votes With Its Feet Meanwhile, banks in countries like Spain, Portugal and Italy are scrambling to retain existing customers and attract new ones by dangling ever-higher interest rates on deposits, making it more expensive for banks to finance themselves affordably.

EU Banks Struggle to Lure Deposits David Enrich 2011

McNulty's cost-cutting prescription of further cuts to staffing and maintenance, more fragmentation, ever-higher fares, and the spectre of line closures, amounts to amputating healthy limbs while the cancer of privatisation continues to consume what is left of the body.

Response: Don't blame the staff - it's privatisation that has failed our railways 2011