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Furthermore , the diversification benefits associated with the conduct of new activities in a subsidiary can result in a reduction in the volatility of consolidated bank earnings . " With a consolidated central government expenditure of 45 percent of GDP , the tax burden necessary to keep the fiscal balance and to ' protect ' the constituency that heavily depends on transfers from the budget is quite high ( only one-third of the budget is spent on the provision of ' public ' goods ) , " writes Begovic . The treaties reached earlier with the local population stood firm and were further consolidated in 734 when the governor of Narbonne , Yusuf ibn ' Abd al-Rahman al-Fihri , concluded agreements with several towns on common defense arrangements against the encroachments of Charles Martel , who had systematically brought the south to heel as he extended his domains . " The campuses connect to the wireless WAN at 11 Mbps , 120 times faster than before , and traffic is consolidated on a 100 Mbps hub to the proxy server at the technology center , " says Leisy .