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'Who has done most for peace in the past year? If the question is put in Nobel's terms. . . it had to be U. S. President Barack Obama.

"Oh, " she said, looking at me cautiously. "Our salaries have been increased three times in the past year. "

Mr Mobius said he had cashed out most of his funds' investments in Malaysia in the past year but had not pulled out completely.

Her mother may also be responsible for Miley's over-sexualized transformation in both her professional and personal life in the past year.

In the past year, a war has broken out in Congress over how much more money can help.

Older women were also far less likely to be sexually active, with 36 percent saying they had not had a partner in the past year.

But a combination of factors has caused U. S. manufacturing to see a surprising recovery in the past year and a half.

As he walks through the market, carefully inspecting products, he notes how prices for just about every item have gone up in the past year.

What was a major obstacle you were able to overcome in the past year?

Nearly a third of the men surveyed had had sex in the past year, and just under half considered sex to be "at least somewhat important. "

For instance, in the past year, nearly 6 out of every 10 drivers have abandoned a search for a parking space, forgoing their plans.

Jiang said that we are glad to see China-Fiji friendly relations and cooperation have been brought to a new level in the past year.

MySpace said the number of visitors to its European sites had risen more than 68 per cent in the past year, to about 25m per month.

London Stock Exchange officials have made at least six visits to the Bay Area in the past year to hold seminars and raise awareness.

Here I wanted to make a gallant last stand in the past year . . . For us . . . But with you . . . Thank you for such good times together.

East Star is the first Chinese airline to go bankrupt but it is not the only privately owned airline to hit turbulence in the past year.

He said that in the past year, the U. S. and South Korea have worked hard to develop a better plan to meet attacks from the North.

The real puzzle is not why volatility has suddenly increased, but why it had been so low in the past year or so.

10. However, it's the only region where the growth of wealth slowed down in the past year.

However, it's the only region where the growth ofwealth slowed down in the past year.

The remarkable rise of the Australian currency in the past year, pushing it up 32% against the U. S. dollar, had solid fundamentals.

Violent crimes against the population have shot up in the past year, including some horrifying cases.

But that's not the only item that has sprinted higher in the past year, and the prices of many other items could rise prospectively.

In the past year, at least two law firms have been sued over issues relating to work by contract attorneys.

Twain posted the letter and video on her web site friday, her 44th birthday, to show what she and her son have been up to in the past year.

How much have you spent on mail-order purchases in the past year?

We have welcomed more than 70 volunteer translators from at least 21 countries to the Global Voices community in the past year and a half.

How much have you spent on online purchases in the past year?

Niger's uranium production is still going up; 90 new exploration permits have been handed out in the past year.

Christoph Pleitgen, a senior Reuters executive, says the big newswires have been staffing up in the past year.

a: sure. you've been a great help to me in the past year.

In the past year thousands of factories, perhaps one-third to one-half of the total, have closed.

They say they were frozen out of such talks for years by the EU, and only in the past year have they been offered a seat.

A third of those responding reported that they had suffered at least one economic crime in the past year.

Two of them went down in the past year, and of the remaining 13, 12 are past their design lifetimes.

One of the company's successes in the past year has been an unusual non-stick coating for frying pans.

During his tenure, rents have risen about one-third, most of that in the past year or two, according to CBRE's Mr. Van.

Jean Fullerton, a planner in Manchester, N. H. , says the number of her clients buying annuities has surged in the past year.

Well, summarize what I got in the past year, and think of new plans for the new year or more future.

You've had precious few planets to help you in the past year or more, and now all the goodies are raining down on you at once!

But in the past year, the long-awaited wave of Chinese investment in the country appears finally to have reached Brazil's shores.

I have had a good time with cooperating with you all in the past year.

In the past year, the company has worked to collect a whole variety of traditional shoe designs and created some new designs.

In the past year, I made a great progress in each aspect and made great improvement on learning and comprehensive quality.

As a result of its growth, the firm has installed a new laminator and a high-speed Titan slitter in the past year.

Ireland has so far done the most to convince investors of its ability to repair its budget, thanks to tough spending cuts in the past year.

In the past year, Arsenal have 're-mortgaged' the loans they took out to pay for the construction but repayment revenue will be forthcoming.

Insurance companies generally define a smoker as someone who has consumed tobacco at least once in the past year.

Hanoi has been sparring with Beijing over the South China Sea in the past year, so such a response was expected.

HTC has taken advantage of that growth by mounting its first big global marketing drive in the past year.

Several of Europe's housing markets are more overpriced, but have lost only a little of their fizz in the past year.

Industry experts say that such an acquisition would make sound economic sense, as sugar prices have more doubled in the past year.

Still, it is hard to see those results lighting a fire under Apple's stock, which has nearly doubled in the past year.

In the past year, there hasn't been a similar shock to the economy. No one is forecasting a repeat of L. A. 's 1990s experience.

Still very important for the company's qualifications. The absence of degree certificates, in the past year has lost a lot of opportunities.

Those who had not sleepwalked in the past year were asked if they had as a child.

Some sales in the past year appeared to run a net loss on guaranteed works.

In the US, the boom in trading commissions that powered earnings? in? the? past? year? also? appears to have ground to a halt.

Firms have been able to boost profits in the past year mainly by cost-cutting, something that is unlikely to be as easy in future.

Taiwan has seen sharp economic growth in the past year and a half, driven by increased demand for the island's electronics exports.

There has been a growing recognition of this in the past year.

The doubling of food prices in many emerging economies in the past year hits the poor hardest, fuelling poverty, inequality and resentment.

The question is not where cumulative Treasury holdings are distributed, but rather who took down the debt sold in the past year.

There was a sharp increase in the number of newborn test-tube babies in the past year.

Unfortunately inflation has robbed money of over 15% of its value in the past year, and no let-up is in sight for the new notes.

Their importance in supporting bank balance sheets during the crisis is shown in the $137bn of deals in the past year.

As part of that process it has encouraged a substantial rise in wages in coastal manufacturing cities such as Shenzhen in the past year.

Hotmail has been transformed in the past year, with a much more attractive interface and deeper integration with other Microsoft products.

(Marchionne is said to have killed three styling proposals in the past year and a half).

But armed groups in at least ten countries used mines or similar devices in the past year.

Prices for rice, the main food crop, have doubled in Bangladesh in the past year. Potatoes now cost much less than rice.

In the meantime Beijing has talked at various points in the past year or so about stepping in to help Greece, Portugal and Italy.

Unlike Nokia, H-P is no stranger to netbooks, having released nine of its Mini models in the past year.

In the past year, many multinational and Chinese companies have expanded or relocated inland, where labor is still cheap.

And she points to the fact that a number of African economies have actually grown in the past year, even as the global economy contracted.

The United States and Malaysia have taken significant steps in the past year to improve the bilateral trade and security relationship.

But over a third of the central banks surveyed said their institutions had changed their investment guidelines in the past year.

Perhaps even more worrying, in the past year or so, three of Africa's leading countries have had heavy setbacks.

Cotton has gained about 50 per cent in the past year, and is trading close to its highest level in 14 years.

Buyers who filed complaints in the past year may be eligible for a 'partial good-faith' payment, Alibaba said.

In 1981 43% of people reported having contacted the police in the past year, usually just to ask directions in the street.

"In the past year I have had an increase in recruiters who come to campus specifically to recruit PGP-X students. "

For around 10 million people, their only gambling activity in the past year had been participating in a National Lottery draw.

But in the past year or two it has grown dramatically in scale and scope.

He will speak about the sales projections for the coming year and the problems that some of us have had in the past year. After Mr.

Gold is up 25% in the past year and has been one of the best-performing assets through the financial crisis.

Hanford said there have been encouraging improvements in religious freedom among some countries, especially Vietnam, in the past year.

India has lifted benchmark lending rates eight times in the past year, and is likely to do so again next week.

At first, Mr. Allen will speak about the sales projections for the coming year and the problems that some of us have had in the past year.

The corrupted editor recalled that they could have CNNed all the righteous people and forced them to shut up for ever in the past year.

The number of such boats heading for Australia has more than doubled in the past year; 129 are thought to have made the journey in 2010.

Perhaps Google's most important offering in the past year was the Chrome OS, an operating system designed to run Web applications.

The rise of music-streaming websites in the past year has coincided with a sharp drop in spending on advertising in general.

Did the long-term health of US government finances improve or deteriorate in the past year?

One of these, the undervalued exchange rate, hasn't changed much in the past year and so has not contributed to rebalancing.

The central bank has lifted interest rates steadily in the past year and is expected to do so again later this month.

As in the past, year-end gifts will account for a substantial percentage of total annual contributions.

That is because a subtle, but significant, shift has taken place in the SEC's attitude to the outside world in the past year.

In the past year really quick! Hope the New Year in many good friends! Wish me in the New Year smoothly! Believe my future is good! Efforts!

Although China insists that it is constantly seeking to perfect its exchange rate, it has barely moved in the past year.

Quite a few Chinese companies have joined the vogue, as China's high-tech industrial parks grew by 10 to20 percent in the past year alone.

In the past year, officials have tried to stop discussion of the 1911 revolution straying into such realms.

There have been several instances in the past year that have raised red flags about lithium batteries.

Are there any new entrants, and what have they been up to in the past year?

In the past year we have worked with member states to catalyse a number of new interdisciplinary research centres in this area.

It was the fifth time that the two men have met in the past year.

In the past year, the spirits of Keynes and Hayek have done battle for the minds of China's policymakers.

Both countries' share the problem of surging fertiliser prices as well as a sharp rise in rural wages in the past year or so.

In the past year or two, consider how quickly your Facebook network has grown.

If you haven't used it in the past year, or can't remember the last time you used it, you don't need it.

Mutual political trust had been deepened and friendly cooperation had reached new progress in the past year, Rakhmon said.

RIM has faced similar demands in the past year from several governments across the Middle East and Asia.

Mr Karzai's cabinet has also improved, with half a dozen technocrats recruited in the past year to the main economic ministries.

In the past year, the rights of ethnic minority groups, women, children, the elderly and the disabled have been further protected.

Shares in RCom, Mr Ambani's telecoms group, have been under pressure in the past year amid investor concerns over its debts.

But that's changed in the past year, as a company VP described during a recent meeting of senior HR executives in Shanghai.

FEW African countries have made as much progress in the past year as Kenya.

In the past year China has blinded a US reconnaissance satellite with a ground-based laser.

The surge of manufacturing output in the past year or so has largely been about recovering ground lost during the downturn.

In the past year the fortunes of big media groups have depended largely on the proportion of their revenues coming from pay television.

Plus, since so many workers have been handed pink slips in the past year, this information is unlikely to kill your candidacy upfront.

Historically a large exporter, the China story in the past year has been one of rapidly rising demand for commodities.

In the past year, according to Morgan Stanley, six out of 11 incumbents have been returned to office.

The authors of the article did a questionnaire survey on the harm to the cleaners done by medical wastes in the past year.

The Speed Sisters have in the past year competed against the toughest male drivers in the expanding car racing scene here.

Mr Kim has visited China three times in the past year, fuelling speculation the two countries are discussing closer economic ties.

In the past year, I met many difficulties, but I more get a lot of life experience.

Illegal migrants in particular have responded to the slump: in the past year or so the stock of unauthorised migrants has stopped rising.

In the past year, the pajama-clad men and women of the street have gone from a ubiquitous sight to a rare novelty.

The cost of paper scraps and wood chips has jumped 50 per cent in the past year thanks largely to Chinese demand, biting into Oji's profits.

The price of this humble vegetable has risen over 400% in the past year, with prices doubling in the past two months alone.

The Sound Princess started out as more of a novelty, but in the past year sales have taken off.

The cost of tyres, gloves and condoms is set to rise following a 65 per cent jump in the price of natural rubber in the past year.

I've actually tried different versions of a morning routine in the past year, and have enjoyed them immensely.

That saved the bank's North American offices alone $300, 000 in the past year.

A newer method which has emerged in the past year uses real-time, light-based observations of gene synthesis to reveal genomic information.

Sizzling is an understatement for some Chinese property markets -- home prices in Haikou have jumped 54% in the past year.

Mr Shive, like many of his regional competitors, has tried hard in the past year to attract foreign listings.

We have seen a satisfactory relationship between the two countries in the past year.

Micro-blogging phenomenon Twitter has emerged as the fastest growing major website in the UK in the past year.

In the past year she counted four cycles that on average lasted less than four months.

In the past year scientists at several small biotech companies have voiced excitement over new drugs in early-stage clinical trials.

In the past year, Dubai has also emerged as a location for some Asian SFOs, especially from India, she says.

You should be proud of your achievements. China has had a lot of achievements in the past year.

We have over 120 million daily users, over 40% of whom we added in the past year as a result of our marketing efforts.

During (In) the past year, he has worked hard at his English and made great progress.

It was further proof that Mr Zapatero's political weakness is damaging his ability to pep up an economy that shrank by 3% in the past year.

In the past year, more big advertisers have also begun to campaign on MySpace.

In northwest Pakistan, suspected Taliban militants have kidnapped several foreigners in the past year.

In the past year we were honoured by visits from the King and Queen of Norway and from the First Ladies of Egypt and Senegal.

In the past year, Google has begun challenging Amazon by selling digital media, including books, directly to consumers.

In the past year, China has overtaken the US as the world's biggest consumer of energy, according to the International Energy Agency.

The Chicago-based US-China Chamber of Commerce (USCCC) has experienced a surge in the number of companies seeking advice in the past year.

On Thursday, Pentagon officials confirmed militants in Iraq had recorded drone video feeds several times in the past year.

On October 26th the Audit Bureau of Circulations revealed that the Los Angeles Times had lost 11% of its paying readers in the past year.

The accumulation of vast foreign-exchange reserves has fuelled domestic money growth and the inflation rate has tripled in the past year.

In the past year, the association has reduced membership dues, and added training and communication resources.

A number of improvement measures have been implemented in the past year.

In the past year it has made acquisitions in Nigeria, Kenya, Turkey and Argentina.

In the past year, China has had maritime run-ins with Japan, Vietnam and also the Philippines over disputed territories in the area.

Mrs. Obama visited a school yesterday where 29 current and former students had been shot in the past year.

By reflecting on them, you will get a complete view of how your life as a whole progressed in the past year.

indeed, the pace has already eased in the past year or two.

A number of standards changes have come about in the past year.

In the past year, we treated seven cases of direct internal carotid cavernous fistula by this method.

Mainly for that reason, the firm's share price has fallen by 14% in the past year.

The only time in the past year, cigarette paper markets have quite different from the past.

It has gobbled up great chunks of market share in deposits and new lending in the past year.

Media freedom and human rights, issues that never undermined Slovenia's EU membership campaign, also came to the fore in the past year.

Their absolute numbers declined 5% in the past year to 11 million, but their proportion of that age cohort didn't change.

In the past year, governments and central banks have unveiled emergency measures that were supposed to instil calm.

Sino-Japanese ties have worsened in the past year, with both countries arguing over access to gas deposits in the East China Sea.

Neodymium at a factory in Baotou, Inner Mongolia, China. Its price has quadrupled in the past year.

He lost $25 billion in the past year as shares in his company, Berkshire Hathaway Inc. , dropped nearly a third in value.

Expectations for Weibo have been high, and explain why Sina shares doubled in the past year.

In Shanghai's suburbs, the surplus has begun to cool prices, which after a run-up are off 25% in the past year.

We remarked that the UI for this has grown much more sophisticated in the past year.

In general, China is satisfied with the positive results in the bilateral relations achieved in the past year.

In the past year, many companies earned substantial profits from gains on stockmarket investments.

Mr. Hariri has since worked to repair relations with Syria, including making several trips to Damascus in the past year.

He said we experienced some twists and turns in the past year but also accumulated more wisdom.

Not anymore. He says two shots a day took the pain away. In the past year, Al says he got thinner, stronger, healthier, and even better.

In the past year the number of unemployed Germans has fallen by more than half a million.

In the past year, they have reoriented themselves to the domestic market via the Internet and both report far fatter profit margins.

In the past year, he has spent about 25 per cent of his time travelling, as far afield as Indonesia, Ghana and Liberia.

Radio talk shows and internet debate have portrayed the issue as a crisis in the past year.

In the past year, clashes between Chinese fishing vessels and Korean authorities have grown more violent.

It cannot be the same as your Apple ID or be any password you have used in the past year.

In the past year, the fund has played a central role in the bail outs of ailing euro-zone nations Greece, Ireland and Portugal.

Militant attacks and suicide bombings across the country have killed more than 1, 000 people - mostly civilians - in the past year.

In the past year Wynn's share price has fallen by two-thirds, and those of Galaxy Entertainment, MGM Mirage and Sands by around 90%.

The exhibition also has a one-year-on section, hosting entrepreneurs that have set up their own design business in the past year.

In the past year, Chinese banks also have been paring their holdings of U. S. subprime debt.

Provides key accomplishments in the past year for both "Building the Business" .

In the past year, gas prices have risen more than 36%, causing Americans to cut back on travel and spend less in other areas. (Full story).

McKesson shares have climbed almost 9% in the past year, slightly less than the Dow Jones Industrial Average's rise of about 13%.

In the past year, he has also cofounded the Censorship Research Center, a nonprofit dedicated to fighting censorship everywhere.

Concern that some European countries will fail to repay their debt has limited equity-market gains in the past year.

In the past year property prices have surged to new highs in some places, helped by a torrent of carefree lending from state-run banks.

Kaer Bei said all the food prices in the past year have faced production problems, resulting in some areas to use the reserves of food.

The price of basic foods, including grains, meat, dairy products and sugar, has surged in the past year.

The global economy has been rocked in the past year by a credit crisis stemming from US mortgage loan defaults.

In the past year, he has gladly lent the teenager money for such items as a videogame system ($250) and an upgraded BMX bike ($175).

Morgan Stanley said it would spend some of the $1 billion it saved slashing 4, 800 jobs in the past year to recruit bankers and traders.

Co-occurring mental illness and substance use was ninth on the list, followed by victimization in the past year.

Some have more than doubled earnings in the past year alone and expect to do so again this year.

"New government policies introduced in the past year also contribute to slower demand, " the IEA says.

In the past year North Korean farms suffered devastating floods and grain prices increased four times.

In the past year, "off eBay" volume has climbed from 33% to 39% of the total.

Indeed, Wall Street has had its own alphabet soup to wade through in the past year.

In the past year, the four Chinese brothers who own Collum coal mine have made some changes.

In the past year, 130 people have been killed there in complicated and worsening ethnic and caste-based violence.

In Times Square rents asked for retail space have doubled in the past year. Office vacancy rates have declined.

The government, hoping to gently cool down the economy, in the past year has repeatedly raised interest rates and restricted bank loans.

Six levels, in the past year, my team and I are classified.

The average cost of a home in Ireland, where house prices have gone up 15 percent in the past year, is 299, 929 euros.

over 100 foreign oil-workers have been kidnapped and ransomed in the past year alone, at about $500, 000 a time.

The Baltic Dry Index, a key measure of commodity shipping costs, has more than doubled in the past year.

Reports said huge numbers had already returned in the past year, 200, 000 from the United Arab Emirates alone.

Stunning and verging on audacious, the five buildings were completed in the past year, in time for the Asian Games.

Nearly 700 Protestant leaders who are not registered with the government have been placed in custody in the past year, the U. S.

In the past year, Government and the television industry had jointly completed technical trials of DTT.

The Reform column reflects a reduction in misery (a negative number h ighl lighted in red) or an increase in misery in the past year.

He emailed a few times in the past year after becoming aware of Mr. Jobs's failing health.

What was your favorite technical book in the past year? What did you learn from it?

Popular outrage over corruption has grown steadily in India in the past year, amid a series of high-profile corruption scandals.

The article reviews the new development of the worldwide plastics additives industry in the past year.

So when you sit down, have the annul review, you can check and see, what's the takeaways in the past year, what's the results.

Facebook says 96 of the top 100 U. S. advertisers, as ranked by Ad Age, bought ads on its site in the past year.

Economic crisis-hit airline industry, grounded in the past year 29% increase in the number of plane to plane 2302.

In the past year, we held three majoy concerts and made a hit CD.

But in the past year the mobile internet has become a user-friendly reality in Europe and the US.

S. banks have been significantly weakened and their share prices remain severely depressed-in some cases down 80 percent in the past year.

Nigeria and South Africa, the continent's military giants, have warmed to Africom in the past year.

It has helped to drive its parent company's shares up by more than 30% in the past year.

Property brokers say that the price of prime real estate in Delhi and Mumbai has risen by 40-50 per cent in the past year.

In the past year, global rare earth prices have fallen sharply as production capacity has been added elsewhere.

A report from the UN said cultivation of poppies in Afghanistan dropped by 22% in the past year and opium production fell by 10%.

Prices for rise, the main food crop, have doubled in Bangladesh in the past year.

And in the past year, coffee prices have gone up nearly 92 percent on major exchanges around the world.

That call has been answered by nearly a dozen new coffee shops that have opened in the past year.

Twice in the past year British diplomats in Sana'a have narrowly escaped assassination.

In the past year (2006), the Lo Wu in building an innovation-based economy and harmonious society has achieved fairly good results.

It reminds us of all the wise and witty things that our political masters have uttered in the past year.

These widgets are prolific. They have been added to millions of web pages in the past year.

Its real consumer spending has jumped 15 per cent in the past year, outpacing the almost double digit rise in gross domestic product.

Facebook says more than 24 million gifts have been given in the past year, and about 280 million gifts are currently available.

In the past year, his forces have carried out deadly attacks in Jonglei and Upper Nile states against the South Sudanese army.

A drop in violence in the past year means it is much safer to attend school, but many teachers and pupils have yet to return.

Schools have reported that applications are up significantly in the past year.