While cumulative advance bookings for Costa have improved, they remain below year-earlier levels.

WSJ: Carnival Profit Slips

For the rest of 2012 and first half of 2013, cumulative advance bookings, excluding its Costa business, are down from a year earlier on slightly lower prices.

WSJ: Carnival Profit Slips

Still, the cumulative effect of his nuclear agenda would be to advance inexorably the denuclearization of the United States.

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