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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.

The bankruptcy filing jeopardizes severance payments awarded to employees over the past year as an inducement to leave their jobs.

We firmly believe that over the past year to the "theory led, research-hing team" the road, run out of its own characteristics.

As the crisis has unfolded over the past year, most regulators, politicians, investors and voters have been left in a state of utter shock.

Over the past year, the optimistic glow that surrounded Mr Obama when he took the oath of office has faded away.

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

As Yao said on Sunday, Howard has spent the past year improving. Yao was busy trying to be able to walk and eventually run again.

Some argue that the unity government has made a bit of progress over the past year.

Over the past year, as Dell slashed prices, it failed to gain market share as it had hoped.

Since the rectification movement is so important, why have we failed to practise it over the past year and a half?

He said he accepted his 'share of the blame' for not adequately explaining his plans to the public over the past year.

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

The US, however, seems to have fallen foul of a shorter-term reaction to the past year's events.

The revolutionary fervor of the past year has no doubt affected the Arab word's diverse economies differently.

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

Indeed, over the past year, time and time again, Germany has appeared to put its own interests over those of Europe as a whole.

Harris said he has seen the number of unique visitors to his website double over the past year as the recession has taken hold.

Defaults haven't been a major problem, but the market values of these CDOs fell sharply over the past year or so.

I spent more hours than I'm willing to admit slaving over a video montage of our past year in pictures.

That kind of a descent, I tell him, would be nice for a change. You just don't know what I've been through this past year.

This reflects those categories' success as a whole, which were the only three of four to see increase in brand value this past year.

No doubt many participants will be at pains to stress how much progress has been made over the past year in response to the AIG shock.

I have had a number of these "wackos" in my career as a student. But none so violently stuck with me as this past year at Moeller.

The street price in the United States does seem to have risen, and the purity seems to have fallen, over the past year.

She cited China as among a number of countries where there has been 'a spike in threats to the free flow of information' over the past year.

THE scientific study of AIDS has dropped out of the headlines over the past year or two.

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

Thus, China does not appear to have been a crucial buyer of Treasury securities for the past year or so.

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.

The past year was, like the years immediately preceding it, a good time to build a brand.

After all that has happened over the past year, both consumers' ability and desire to use debt to fuel spending have been reduced.

Like the rest of the industry, Shell has been hit by the fall in oil and gas prices over the past year and a squeeze on refining margins.

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

As investors have no doubt learned over the past year, a sudden change in sentiment could cause an exodus of funds from Asia.

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.

I certainly hope that the three refinements will continue to anchor expectation firmly. This seems to have been the case for the past year.

Swift has spent the past year on the Speak Now World Tour in support of her third album, and now she's getting ready to go further.

Still, close friends knew that divorce had been a subject of serious discussion between the Costners for the past year.

And yet during the past year even the oasis of Beijing had been invaded by the atmosphere of struggle that hovered over all China.

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

The past year was a year of hard working and striving, it was also a year that Royal felt most proud of.

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. "

All this has given the concept of sustainable finance momentum over the past year.

Past year in and year out, he walk a high mountain canyon, he did not find out the diamond.

In the UK, Ms Farrell says there had been a 16 per cent increase in job advertisements on the IT Jobs Board over the past year.

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

He was always the last one to leave the classroom during the past year.

They made him get down on his knees and admit all the mistakes he had made during the past year.

Mr. Jackson's estate has earned about $275 million over the past year, according to a person familiar with the matter.

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.

I know we haven't met before but I'd like to tell you about myself and the company where I have worked for the past year.

Meanwhile, Mr Schmidt has made it one of his main missions over the past year to build better relations with business partners.

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.

Imagine that you were asked to invest in a company based purely on its sales growth over the past year.

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.

THE past year or two has tested the idea that all publicity is good publicity, at least when it comes to business.

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.

During the past year, maybe I should not have been with him, because he changed me a lot.

Helbling said rice prices, which more than doubled over the past year, are beginning to come down.

The U. S. Fed has also been cranking out currency over the past year, but has not been widely accused of being a currency manipulator.

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.

No doubt the Europeans would be pressed by the US to follow a more expansionary policy, as they have been in almost every past year.

Over the past year, Mr. Prasad said, the commodity lobby had the upper hand.

FP: One of the big news items in North Korea this past year was the disastrous currency revaluation.

Similarly, the company is still building up its cloud computing services and over the past year it added 17 new fulfillment centers.

What was the largest achievement of your company during the past year?

He patiently explained that each line represented an occasion where he'd been allowed out of the house on his own over the past year.

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

Over the past year, all the major tech blogs have done round-up articles of great Greasemonkey scripts to use with Twitter (including us).

The past year has been a rough one. People are less disposed to make costly gestures towards environmental protection in a slump.

Still, Sunlight and other campaigners for better access to official information have had much to celebrate over the past year.

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.

Given the policies enacted across the world over the past year, at some point inflation will take off once more.

But after going on a spending spree over the past year, at least one part of HNA ran into financial trouble.

At least once within the past year, Cree executives decided against moving wafer-making outside the U. S.

Over the past year, nonresidential construction has been a significant source of support for the broader economy.

In the last few hours of a passing year, what people want is a carnival-like show to enjoy, and relax after working hard over the past year.

over the past year, heard and saw some enterprises resist around a year and keep the helplessness and miserable.

Mr Wang said the positions of about 100, 000 deputy-party secretaries had been abolished over the past year.

Over the past year, it has been rebuilt into a generic pedestrian mall with Starbucks and Krispy Kreme outlets.

Over the course of the past year, a great deal of media attention worldwide has been trained on problems associated with toy safety.

Over the past year, we have acted together to help restore financial stability and economic growth to a world in crisis.

or where within the past year the board of directors or supervisor(s) have been unable to independently exercise their functions.

Test results over the past year show that 1075 people infected with AIDS, age of infected persons also tend to be younger.

During this past year I've had three instances of car trouble: a blowout on a freeway, a bunch of blown fuses and an out-of-gas situation.

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.

One of his chief exhibits is the Republicans' comportment during the past year of divided government.

I have read A LOT of books in the little spare time I have had this past year in China and I feel that I have grown a lot from them.

However, analysts cautioned that commodity markets could rebound rapidly, as they have done after similar corrections over the past year.

Over the past year, positive signs of global economic trends are beginning to emerge.

President Obama says U. S. exports had a bigger-than-expected increase during the past year, which he says will help fight unemployment.

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?

All local governments and government offices did a great deal of work and made much headway in these areas over 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.

Japan is pining for a national hero, following several blows to its national pride over the past year.

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

The group readied a report on the state of the nation's Earth-observation capabilities, but it's been stuck in review for the past year.

To the automotive industry, the past year of 2009 was a year full of challenges and opportunities.

Looking back on the changes of the past year, he thinks of everyone's enthusiasm to help. In his heart remains a feeling of gratitude.

The concept of transmitting conversations over the Internet has attracted a lot of attention over the past year -- if not a lot of business.

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.

It argued that the evaluation group didn't take into account steps it had taken over the past year to improve its controls.

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

Over the past year, we have made significant progress in raising IT awareness and promoting the use of IT in the community.

Nearly 85 percent of men and 45 percent of women who were living with a partner said they had masturbated within the past year.

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

Over this past year the magnetic simulator operating out of Japan has shown the Earth in the throes of a magnetic grip.

China's Commerce Ministry offered its conditional approval for at least six deals over the past year.

Over the past year there have been only one or two minor hiccups lasting less than two minutes.

Only 38 percent of women said they'd masturbated at all during the past year, while 61 percent of men had done so.

The global spike in grain prices over the past year is in large part due to the impact on grain supplies of the growing demand for meat.

Efforts over the past year have produced good social and economic results. But this is only the beginning.

Americans have made it clear over the past year that they want the federal government to do something about illegal immigration.

Some of the money raised over the past year for Carlyle Asia Partners III already has been put to work.

For all the natural and man-made disasters of the past year, travelers seem more determined than ever to leave home.

But he's such a sweet man, and I did his charity event called Smash Hits in Newport Beach this past year.

If you've studied the company's annual report, consider remarking on any great progress the company has made within the past year.

There has been a 29% increase in the number of UK holidaymakers searching for nanobreaks over the past year.

Now consider some recent failures of our government - and ask yourself whether it has really learned anything over the past year?

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.

The U. S. has, over the past year, exploited this tension to galvanize the rest of East Asia against China and under U.

Iranian officials have repeatedly complained, during the past year, that Amiri had been kidnapped while on a pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia .

People all over American are going to say goodbye to the past year.

ITALIAN bankers have been doing deals with uncharacteristic allegria during the past year, making up for lost time.

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.

The company has lost significant market share in the US, forcing it to raise discounts and other incentives over the past year.

Vietnam has faced international criticism over the past year following its arrest of bloggers and a prominent human rights lawyer.

He told me he worked part time in the basement of a museum. He hated his boss. He had been undergoing intense therapy for the past year.

Ms. Fay counsels job seekers to look at the misdeeds of the past year or two to identify where new jobs will bloom in the financial sector.

FOR the past year or two, the big economies have experienced a "multi-speed" recovery, as the IMF calls it.

The combination of these factors has led the spot price of iron ore delivered to China to more than double over the past year alone.

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!

Outside his house the day before, with mountains and a river as a backdrop, he had hinted that the past year has been very difficult.

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

First, the subject of discussion was the wobble in confidence that has taken place over the past year.

Over the past year things have been looking up for the effort to avert serious climate change.

True, I worked very hard for the past year, but I certainly didn't expect to be elected best teacher of the year.

If I were asked to pick the events during the past year that meant the most to me, I would chose three.

'The past year was like balancing ourselves on a sea of rolling logs, ' Mr. Spielberg said of the process. 'Thankfully, no one fell in. '

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.

But I also thought about the things that had gone right. I thought of how my speaking skills had improved over the past year.

W: Over the past year, we've had students progress up to four grade levels in their reading!

Over the past year the use of frequent, despite repeated repairs, it is now has been unable to meet the day-to-day use.

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

The late King of Pop made more money over the past year than any other musician or actor, dead or alive.

In Germany, where property values have been mostly falling since the mid-1990s, price declines have intensified over 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.

Over the past year, AIA splurged on a splashy rebranding campaign that included billboards and television commercials throughout the region.

After all, central bankers around the world have repeatedly warned over the past year that markets were pricing risky credits too cheaply.

Let me briefly highlight a few of the achievements of the past year.

This past year I was diagnosed with cancer and faced the possibility that my life would end sooner than I'd planned .

Some say that elements of them have been acting off their own bat, without the president's explicit approval, for the past year.

However, over the past year the German group has begun to re-assert itself.

The following articles are a selection of the best of the FT's coverage over the past year.

The wave of killings over the past year has police officers all over Afghanistan watching what they eat, and sleeping uneasily.

The President addressed the Congress to review the past year and announced plans for the next 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.

Over the past year, the world economy has experienced the most severe challenge since the Great Depression.

My virginity had become a burden that past year and this was, surely, a turning point in my life.

The surge in property sales and construction has been one of the biggest supports for China's economic recovery over the past year.

Over the past year or so, the market's been oscillating between worry and belief that everything's going to be okay.

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

The past year of trading in the US fixed-income market has been a watershed for dealers, investors and the Federal Reserve.

The last day of 2009. Recalling the past year. There have been numerous. Let me feel tired.

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.

Foggia then went on to talk about his personal achievements during the past year.

The past year has been a difficult one for the poor.

Few banks over the past year have been able to tap investors for more capital.

Even western investment banks that have thrived over the past year have been left behind in the price-to-book league table.

This past year, in 2009, you can see that they're now raising about a fourth of a chick.

Much of the past year's bank lending should really be viewed as a form of fiscal stimulus.

Over the past year and a half, BMI Racing have spent alot of time monitoring the performance of their car.

But if credit swaps were not a primary cause of the past year's conflagrations, they were, in certain respects, an accelerant.

It is not surprising that over the past year, many institutions have been focused on increasing usage of the online channel.

This means that the authorities tend to respond early to a downturn, as evident over the past year, but late to an upturn.

In reviewing our work of the past year, we clearly see that many problems and difficulties remain in our economic and social development.

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

Many urban Chinese feel the surge in property prices over the past year has put home ownership out of their reach.

The whole bailout process this past year was characterized by no oversight, no limits, no concerns, no understanding, and no common sense.

During the past year, it was possible to become fiscally flabby through a steady diet of speculative bonbons.

Mr. Yi has been China's main connection to the U. S. -based basketball since its most well-known player, Yao Ming, retired this past year.

Nonetheless, the extreme volatility of prices over the past year must have made big oil firms more cautious about future investments.

The past year has seen a change in American spending habits that many of us never thought we would see, at least not in our lifetimes.

The past year has been a challenging one for companies, chief executives and investors.

Nonetheless, the extreme volatility of prices over the past year must have made big firms more cautious about future investments.

But of the ten banks to have spilt the most red ink over the past year (see table), five have the same chief executives in place.

Silver backers counter that even with its recent drop, the lesser precious metal has retained a nearly 80% gain over the past year.

Over the past year, China has tried many times to project greater influence in its surrounding seas by way of simple, brute force.

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.

Even as the region's sovereign-debt crisis has deepened over the past year, its currency has gained ground against the greenback.

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, at No. 17, is the only member of the top 20 whose net worth climbed during the past year.

The International Monetary Fund and others reckon that the apparent rebalancing of the global economy over the past year is temporary.

The next European crisis: boat people FOR THE past year excessive sovereign debt has endangered the European project.

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

I have found over the past year and a half that consistency, predictability and simplicity have been key with my eldest son.

Its business has improved over the past year and a half largely on robust consumer spending on discounted PCs.

This is still the same architecture that we have been telling you about for the past year and that underlies the current CTP bits.

She had been scheming to start the diary for the past year but now the time seemed right.

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

The repeaters on the list, for their part, have done plenty of good work over the past year.

The past year has also been dominated by increased concerns of an overheating Chinese economy which has resulted in a tight monetary policy.

After bunkering down for most of the past year, leaders need to start to peer out of the parapet as a possible recovery beckons.

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

After all, conservatives on both sides of the Atlantic spent much of the past year hailing Irish austerity as a resounding success.

Yet during the past year's "pause for reflection" , plenty of ideas have been put forward by the continent's leaders.

Mr Burgess is one of several well-known industry names to join Threadneedle over the past year.

One of the areas that has seen solid improvements over the past year is the Linux graphics stack.

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.

The system shows the rate of sales by the hour, by the day, over the past year and more.

The deal has become a symbol of the backlash against foreign investment that has built up in China over the past year.

Ukraine's youngest billionaire benefiting from rising iron ore prices; stock in his iron ore producer Ferrexpo doubled over the past year.

Hagen had filled the Consigliere's post for the past year, ever since the cancer had imprisoned Genco Abbandando in his hospital bed.

I really feel like the public has been too hard on Christina Aguilera this past year.

Fonterra has more than doubled its organic milk supply over the past year to help meet demand.

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

As loans by Chinese financial institutions are up a stunning 34. 4 per cent over the past year, overheating must be a concern.

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.

He hired about a dozen new workers over the past year to help increase the size of his herd to about 6, 000 pigs, from 5, 000 previously.

To participate they have had to earn $2m over the past year in whichever sector (open or custom) they participate.

Over the past year Solazyme has been providing it with trial quantities of both from its production facilities in Pennsylvania and Iowa.

Over the past year, the Chinese banking sector has seen the promulgation of a wide range of new guidelines and regulations.

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

Over the past year, it strayed from its "everyday low prices" slogan, the bedrock philosophy of founder and namesake Sam Walton.

Over the past year, citizen journalists have been praised for breaking news and providing real-time documentation of major events.

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

During the past year, the SEC's enforcement lawyers have stepped up the pace of insider trading lawsuits and settlements.

Indeed, over the past year both Japanese firms have made international expansion the cornerstone of their strategy.

Looking back over the past year, or even the past week, by doing things and stretching myself that I feel I have made the most of my days.

China has liberalised regulations for importing gold over the past year, widening the number of banks authorised to import gold.

Over the past year, however, the debacle in Iraq and problems at home have turned both leaders from soaring hawks into the lamest of ducks.

Over the past year, countries including Brazil, China, Ecuador, Venezuela and Ukraine have tried to slow capital inflows.