December

December, as it always does, reminds us how fast a year has passed so quickly and our whole life can be a glimpse of the eye.

She was in a coma for a year and I took care of her at home, until she died in my arms in December of 1992.

Last December, a court ruled that Laura could remain with her father, despite his support for her plan to sail solo round the world.

Food prices in India rose nearly 20% from a year earlier in early December, but a slowing rise suggested farm prices could be stabilizing.

The number of oil option contracts betting on oil hitting $200 a barrel in December have tripled since the beginning of the year.

On the first day of December four people died violently, and on the third the wind began to break.

He said that during His Majesty? s visit to China last December, they had a very good discussion and he still had a fresh memory of it.

Rioting broke out in Rome a day later (see article), just as it did when Mr Berlusconi was confirmed in office in December 2010.

And in his State of the Union address that December he said that two and a half million Americans were unemployed.

then , much to our surprise , on december 23rd , she said that she really wanted a bike more than anything else.

It was one of those rare December days when the sun was almost as warm as Indian summer.

At the time of his arrest in December, he claimed to manage $65bn of investors money, but in reality there was just $1bn left.

The dollar value of deals in November and December is four times that of the same period a year ago.

When he took the reins in December 2003, Mr Hackett instituted once- or twice-weekly meetings with senior managers.

Although December CPI fell a bit from November, inflation is likely to push up again over the next three months.

His 60th birthday is coming up in December, and he'd like to do something special, maybe go on a cruise to the Bahamas.

As much to say that you will not miss to be quickly overflowed by the quantities of work to cut down! That will last until December.

18 million, but a knee injury restricted his involvement and he did not start in the Premier League until late December.

Princess Anne's son Peter Phillips and his wife Autumn are expecting their first child in December, Buckingham Palace confirmed yesterday.

I was reminded how much I prefer trains as I waited for one on a frigid December day in Waterbury , Vt.

Nigerian man accused of trying to blow up a transatlantic flight last December has sacked the defence team at his trial in Detroit.

It started raising interest rates last December and is expected to keep doing so at least until the end of this year.

China hopes the mechanism could be institutionalized. We stand ready to work with the US to hold a successful dialogue this December.

He said the fact the number of new revocations since December 25 is relatively small reflects the basic strength of screening procedures.

U. S. federal appeals court in Washington on December 7, said the FDA can only regulate electronic cigarettes as a tobacco product.

The agreement of December 13th did not include the reform of any other election laws.

He decided to try it for the first time on December twenty-fourth. It was the first time a human voice had been heard on radio.

Motorola said in December that completion of the deal had been delayed because it had not received Chinese government approval.

A couple of years ago, the sea ice did not form at all until December and was gone again in March.

Ever since the earthquake of December 2003, Bam in Southern Iran is nothing but rubble and ruin.

But the most interesting results were in December, when the Sun was at its lowest point in the sky.

LAST December Evo Morales, Bolivia's socialist president, easily won a second term and with it a mandate to implement a new constitution.

Each December we sent her a tax notice, which would be returned by the post office a week later, unclaimed.

Mugabe said last December that he was tired of working with the opposition party, which he said "lacked ideology and policies. "

If the constitution did not prohibit consecutive terms, Ms Bachelet would be strongly placed to win the presidential election in December.

Negotiations should be picked up from the point they were left when they broke down in December 2008, he said.

The bank's minutes made it clear that the decision to raise rates in December for an unprecedented third month in a row was finely balanced.

The Corporation shall utilize the accrual method of accounting with a year ending in December of any given year.

And I invited the prime minister to come to the White House in December, as we plan for all the important work that we have to do together.

Fiscal union is now officially on the European agenda in the run-up to the last European summit of the year on December 9.

Pakistan's government said the operation had been completed in December, but fighting in the area has continued.

Since the last MPC meeting in December, the UK downturn has continued to deepen.

The sun continued to languish until mid-December, when the largest group of sunspots to emerge for several years appeared.

Formerly the company's chairman, Huang resigned from GOME in January after he was suspended from his post in December.

Chinalco, China's biggest aluminium-maker, which had idled 10% of its capacity, said in December that it would restart it all.

But this was a blooper: it would be a bit like giving America bad news about its security in the Pacific region on December 7th.

Secretary Gates said he expects the current approach to be validated by a U. S. government review set for December, its first anniversary.

"There's no doubt there will be a dramatic impact on growth in the December quarter from what has occurred around the globe, " Swan said.

Drive by a theater on Long Island (NY) on December 25th, and you're liable to see a line around the building!

Can there ever have been a more appropriate memorial to a writer than the new Samuel Beckett bridge that opened in Dublin on 10 December?

At the beginning of December, the first of the bad storms sent waves crashing up over the quayside into the front room.

John Thornton had been ill in December, and his two friends had had to leave him at White River and go on to Dawson.

He said that the climate talks due to conclude in Copenhagen in December were fundamental to whether the world moved away from fossil fuels.

The last time we moved off the 200-day moving average was just under a year ago, when we had a great September to December bull run.

The meeting was touted as an attempt to try to hammer out some lingering issues from the Copenhagen negotiations last December.

She said she was shocked but proud to learn she had won the $1. 3 million prize, to be handed out in Oslo on December 10.

So, if I had to guess, I would bet that we'll see some sort of Chrome OS beta launch in December.

And he said that the poor outcome of December's climate summit in Copenhagen was predictable.

People need to remember that McGrady has always been a slow starter, but has also always picked it up once the calendar rotates to December.

Her life ended December 18, 1992 with a great feeling in her heart that she had changed people's lives.

He escaped from his Pakistani captors in December 2007, and was said later to have been killed by American drones.

The matter has come to a head as governments around the world prepare for December's global climate change summit in Copenhagen.

Mr Darling said the measure, effective from December 1, was intended "to help everyone and deliver a much-need injection into the economy" .

The holidays are coming, and I had mentioned that it would be wise not to shop in December, due to Mercury in retrograde.

The second song is about Ms Irlweg, the "unflappable" customer service rep at United who said last December that the "matter was closed. "

Whitacre in December said the money would be repaid by the end of June, and recently has hinted the payback would come even sooner.

The December meeting that spawned Kyoto was one of a series of annual UN climate conferences.

The negotiations are the first direct talks since the last effort broke down in December 2008.

If she did not already know that, she was given a reminder on December 15th, when members of Congress voted themselves a 62% pay rise.

Wenger feels Allardyce has brought stability after inheriting a team in the relegation zone when he took charge in December 2008.

The meeting aims to influence the crucial United Nations climate change talks scheduled to take place in Copenhagen in December.

due to be held in December, it said the month is the twelfth lunar month, known as La La at the festival that day.

He died back in December and on Saturday his body was placed in a crypt at the South Carolina home of one of his daughters.

Obama will travel to Copenhagen on 10 December, on his way to collect the Nobel peace prize in Oslo the next day.

Mr Abhisit has said he might dissolve parliament in December (a year before he has to), but not earlier.

In December the president allowed himself to be photographed without a shirt on a Hawaiian beach.

It released a video of him in December.

In December 1961, we decided to work together to learn on our own what had not been taught to us by our professors at the university.

In December 1956, the Supreme Court banned segregation on public transportation, and the boycott ended over a year after it had begun.

All this makes the need for a deal at the multinational climate summit set to convene in Copenhagen this December all the more pressing.

But the head of the country's Congress said it would not vote on whether or not to reinstate Mr Zelaya until December.

Consultation and inclusion have been guiding principles of the Bank's approach to reconstruction following December's tsunami.

Ancient discipline to twelve month disposable December, the beginning of the dynasties of the time of the year was different.

However, the year-on-year figures for December show that the pain was more evenly distributed by the end of the year (see chart 2).

The top U. S. military officer, Admiral Mike Mullen, said in December he did not expect any major strategy change.

They found the rate of serious heart defects has dropped 6 percent a year since Canada began its own food fortification in December 1998.

But Chinese exports fell almost 3% in December from a year earlier -- the sharpest drop in at least 10 years.

Mourinho and Red Rom have been at loggerheads since December over the Russian's desire to have more influence.

It's easy to understand the December panic.

The children are also going to get new clothes, but I am still waiting for my December salary. It has not yet been posted.

In the early morning of December first, the sun was finally warming them all, enough to walk faster.

In December he ordered a review of Alfa's operations, which according to Max Warburton of Bernstein Research were losing up to $575m a year.

The December 1984 industrial accident at the pesticide plant in Bhopal was one of the world's worst industrial accidents.

If you are already coupled up, December's glittering vibrations will coax you to rediscover and recapture the early days of your romance.

Clarke was shot by two men who opened fire with a shotgun after he opened the door of his house in December of 2007.

Grande Cache's board supports the deal and a special meeting of the company's shareholders is scheduled in December.

The document says the security situation in Iraq continued to improve during the reporting period, from December to February.

Initially released in December 1999, Castor JDO was one of the first open source data binding frameworks available.

Then, in December, its shares raced up in one of the hottest debuts in years on the Nasdaq.

The energy minister complained that supplies were cut without notice, but then admitted that Russia warned him in mid-December.

Then we helped put together the Series B round a year or two later, and worked with them on the Series C round that closed in December 2009.

The company is also looking to profit down the road from a partnership that it formed with Exelixis (Nasdaq: EXEL) this past December.

After less than a year of marriage, the MTV comedian filed for divorce in December 2001, citing irreconcilable differences.

Last December a family friend told his mother that her nephew recently married a girl from neighboring Sichuan province.

But on the morning of December 10, 1996, I woke up to discover that I had a brain disorder of my own.

Messrs. Bostock and Yang had told him to wait until around December to restart the conversation, this person said.

The ODIHR did not monitor Russia's December election, saying Moscow did not issue observer visas in a timely manner.

But exports rose strongly in December, compared with both a year and a month earlier.

Banks already seem to be following Beijing's orders: total lending surged by 19% in the year to December.

"Discovery" this month's launch window will last until 7, if the 7th not the sky, and its launch will be forced to be postponed to December.

The Taf was set up in December 2007 to provide one-month loans to creditworthy banks as markets dried up for lending longer than overnight.

In Mexico, elements of the Alkire-Foster method have been incorporated, along with others, into a poverty index introduced last December.

Mr Easterbrook said the technological innovations were triggered by a visit to Japan last December.

Hill expressed hope that the talks would resume in December, but said he was not concerned about setting a date.

As if on cue, major central banks cut interest rates in November and December to spur growth and prop up their financial systems.

Ms Bousada learnt that she had a tumour before she gave birth to her sons at a clinic in Barcelona in December 2006.

The film, set for release in December, was one of Twitter's trending topics Thursday.

The items were in the possession of the police at the time the fraud was committed that December, using those documents.

A key measure of optimism among small businesses is back where it was just as the recession started, in December 2007.

However after years of being "undervalued" in the job market, some students get a bit confused when they receive offers early in December.

That statement came a day after Ukraine announced it had paid its obligations for November and December deliveries.

Citigroup's stock plummeted last week to its lowest level since December 1992, raising doubts about the bank's ability to survive.

An earlier vote, scheduled in December, was abandoned after the two shareholders decided to increase their offer at the last minute.

At a congress of the pro-Kremlin United Russia party, he graciously agreed to head its party list at the general election in December.

The Treasury estimated in December that fiscal retrenchment building up to more than 5% of GDP would be needed to fill the hole.

One night in December, Bob Reich said it seemed foolish for Frank to risk jail when there was so much he could do out of the country.

She said: 'I started training with a personal trainer called Tim Sharp last December in my local gym.

German investor confidence improved for a second month in December as the recovery in Europe's largest economy showed signs of broadening.

On December 11, she took the child to her GP, who noticed that the baby had bruises on his forehead, nose, chest and right shoulder.

It has already been December now, so the Children can't wait to decorate their chirstmas trees.

In late December, the two had settled on most of the details of a deal, but financing and government approvals remained to be completed.

It was now December 2008, then January 2009, then February, and I was going crazy trying to find the right driver.

Take the Balkans. In mid-December, efforts to negotiate the peaceful separation of Kosovo from Serbia are likely to run out of road.

As I understand it, in December 2010, the two sides had come close to an agreement: Israel would apologize and provide compensation.

By mid-December, most homes will also be decorated with Christmas trees, coloured lights and paper or plastic decorations around the rooms.

Never convicted of corruption, Mr Zardari nevertheless spent eight years in prison. His wife was murdered last December.

But the move did not become widely known until this month (December) when it was reported by local media.

Now China is one of the bank's top borrowers, and in December it became a donor, on a small scale.

Responding to thousands of complaints, the Federal Reserve Board issued new rules last December to help curb unfair and deceptive practices.

I'm already preparing for the next album. . . it will probably be out in late November or early December .

Every year it's the same . As December comes to an end, you think about the new year and all the ways you want to improve your life.

In November and December, police in Yanji, Jilin province, turned up the heat by raiding more homes suspected of harboring North Koreans.

The only bright news was that house sales rose 6. 5% between November and December, as buyers snapped up bargains.

In the December 9, 2009, the entire northern Norway sudden appearance of a blue sky, swirling iris, like the computer synthesis.

December is usually a time when bankers crowd the showrooms and aisles shopping for their next big bonus toys.

Although it was December, she looked almost summery, sitting there in her bright red jacket with the fresh green plants around her.

He made similar comments last December, though his disclosure then went almost unnoticed.

Now, having doubled its stake last December, Minsheng is reported to be considering boosting its holding to at least 50 per cent.

The laws are "very up-to-date" , the labour minister, Carlos Lupi, said in December. He wants firing workers to become still pricier.

On December 8th a draft agreement which had been discussed some weeks ago was leaked to the Guardian.

At the moment, efforts to deal with global warming are focused on a huge international summit in Copenhagen in December.

It did not appoint an overseas investment adviser when setting up its second QDII fund, HFT Greater China Equity, in December.

In Shanghai, the animosity bubbled to the surface in December after an incident on a breakfast radio show.

The two nations are trying to replace the 1991 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, which expired last December.

Doctors said in December that President Yar'Adua was suffering from acute pericarditis, an inflammation of the lining of the heart.

At the crucial point last December, Goldman walked out of the negotiations and threatened to make its own, higher bid.

It is sad to say that he passed away mysteriously in France during one of his business trips abroad year on 12th December 2006.

So, too, could a spring budget that, like December's pre-budget report, failed to spell out a credible plan to reduce the deficit.

In December 1988, two years after the U. S. bombing, Libya struck back with its most devastating attack.

The White House has already stressed that the December 3 jobs conference will not be about a second stimulus package.

Mr. Li was released from prison in December after serving three years of a four-year term for destruction of property related to hacking.

Next month Larkin and Brady close the deal . The merger takes place in December . Larkin takes ove as President in January.

The deal, Mr. Bogaards said, was initiated by one of Mr. Assange's lawyers in mid-December and was signed in a matter of days.

But in December 2009 an air strike was blamed for killing more than 40 civilians as well as a handful of intended targets.

In December eighteen thirty-seven, Canadian soldiers crossed the Niagara River and seized the boat. One American was killed in the fight.

A youth of 16 was admitted to a city hospital on 8 December 1960 with a week's history of frontal headache, backache and pains in the limbs.

After a year of sequential producer and consumer price deflation, both the CPI and PPI moved into positive territory in December.

Stewart Downing is the only new recruit hitherto and the former Middlesbrough winger is not available until December due to injury.

It was the death of the sun. And by December 22nd, the sun's demise was fully realized. . .

Yet that December, we were also just beginning to recognize a terrible new danger.

My thoughts Like winter snowflakes in December, Flying in the sky Flying over mountains and oceans, Carrying to you my heartfelt blessings.

Commodity prices continued to plunge, as crude oil prices dropped to the lowest level since December, approaching $85 a barrel.

That credit had lapsed for a year after Congress allowed it to expire in December 2009.

December is the last month of a year.

The bank had originally played down the theft, revealed last December, saying that fewer than 10 clients were involved.

If you don't have a board, then you should be able to lock into a budget with your team in December.

In December, hiring nearly stalled, driving the unemployment rate to its highest level in more than two years.

This project began for me with an old woman in Xi'an, on December 15th 2005.

December's rebound was an "important turning point" for exporters, a customs agency economist, Huang Guohua, said on state television, CCTV.

August's figures continue a trend that began in April of shoppers holding back; it's expected to continue at least through December.

If you don't celebrate Christmas, why not make December 25th of every year your day to clean up and get organized?

Such licence would be extended once, upon request, for up to 3 months, if the request was made before 15 December of the current quota year.

The rights group says there has been a surge in government-led attacks on populated areas of Darfur and aerial bombings since December.

December is one of my favorite months as it's the month of lights, and the month of giving, and thanking.

The month starts out with a superb new moon, December 5, in your tenth house of honors, awards, achievement, and fame.

Two years after the U. S. ordered strikes on Libya, in December 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 exploded in the sky over Lockerbie, Scotland.

The jewellery company also reported that sales in November and December were 17% higher than a year earlier. Sales in Europe went up by 30%.

A second auction of items from Reynolds' collection will take place in December.

Fang Fenglei has been the main figurehead for Goldman's investment banking operation on the mainland since it was set up in December 2004.

The latest figures support the trend, with Acer's January sales down 34 per cent from a year ago and 4 per cent less than December's.

Now December 7 is dawning bright and blue over America's Pacific coast, and with it breaks the news that startles an industry.

Pressure to agree action has intensified in the run up to United Nations talks on climate change in Copenhagen in December.

Last December North Korean hackers caught a glimpse of the plan thanks to a slip on the part of a South Korean officer.

Japanese government decided in December to be in the dispatch of GSDF size, mandate and implementation plan to carry weapons.

No one, not Capricorn, or any other sign, should be doing anything important in December.

Figures announced on December 10th showed that exports fell by a startling 2. 2% in November, compared with a year earlier.

Conjoined twin boys, who were born in London in December, are to undergo surgery to separate them later.

When "Avatar" came out last December, 71% of Americans who went to see it on opening weekend opted for a cinema showing the 3D version.

"December writedowns are still not the end. We are rather at the beginning of the valuation correction than at the end. "

We believe that this is essential to establishing a very positive tone leading in to the Copenhagen conference in December.

Do not sign any contracts, leases, or other important documents in December, for later you will regret doing so!

Mr Freer was leader of the local council, Barnet, until he stepped down in December.

Education ministers are already anxiously awaiting the next issue of its PISA study, which is due to be published on December 7th.

A last intercepted radio message on 14 December marks the last time the west had a definitive fix on his whereabouts.

And officers on both sides kept a vigil against similar outbreaks of humanity every December for the rest of the war.

THE diplomatic process leading up to the climate-change conference in Copenhagen in December is gathering speed.

I had a very up-and-down year in my marathon training, but to sum up a long story, in early December 2006 I completed my first marathon!

I'm writing to tell you that all US troops will return home from Iraq by the end of December.

Solstice is the name of the new baby giraffe at the St. Louis Zoo. It was born in December, on winter solstice.

Late in December he took to his bed.

But at least they didn't try to hack my blog and e-mails or steal information since the middle of December 2009.

Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich was arrested at his Chicago home on December ninth. Federal officials have charged him with corruption.

Ramming home the point on December 13th, India's foreign secretary, Nirupama Rao, chided China's ambassador at a public meeting in Delhi.

CIT became a bank holding company in December but that did not give it enough time to make the transition to a more stable funding model.

He estimated that the December inflow represented an annualised rate of about $575bn, enough to cover the US current account deficit.

The rallies appear to be part of a new strategy by Thaksin supporters to weaken the Abhisit government that came to power in December.

And that, as they describe in the December issue of Biology of Reproduction, is what Dr Donaldson and her team have done.

The company began allowing employees to use their personal smartphones to access their corporate email accounts in December.

At the Arctic Circle, the sun cannot be seen above the horizon in December.

we'd better wait till 12 december. David will have had his exam by then, so he'll be able to enjoy himself.

The site's December edition features a collection of the company's top ten favorite Twitter stories of the year.

"That December decline is now the worst we've seen since October 1949, " he said.

This is one of the main results of a study by a team of American and British researchers published on December 8th.

No date for the conference has been announced, but it normally takes place in the first half of December.

We will have to have a strong November and December. And then we will have achieved something that has not happened for several decades.

As you read this, you may have already received news about what is to be finalized by December 10, plus five days.

One Sunday afternoon last December, Ann Sutton happily watched over a holiday cooking spree in her kitchen.

If December's demanding work month, you may need to let some of your traditional holiday habits slide.

In December, Splash died, a little more than a year after his master.

Last December five families living near the Athlone stadium were told their homes would be demolished to make way for a car park.

The news of the low sales figures deals a serious blow to the company, which launched the F3DM model to much fanfare last December.

You know by December or January whether your child has been accepted at the first-choice college.

Analysts say the party is another product of the Kremlin, tested now with a view to being deployed in December's parliamentary elections.

Then much to our surprise, on December 24, she said she really wanted a bike more than anything else.

Yet by December the US savings rate as a percentage of disposable income stood at 4. 8 per cent, more or less unchanged from a year before.

Former Communist Romanian leader Nicolae Ceausescu, above, and his wife Elena were executed on December 25, 1989, in Bucharest.

The pieces were all in place: Apple had purchased music-streaming service Lala in December, then shut it down last week.

The full report, due to be published by December, is expected to warn of an environmental catastrophe.

The NMC said the strongest cold front this week would hit most parts of the country from December 20 to 23.

The three-day event is not fixed to the same dates each year, but generally takes place in November or December.

On December 30th one was stabbed three times in front of his house in Almaty; another was beaten up in January.

One of the earliest wartime internationals took place in Newcastle in December 1939 when England beat Scotland 1-0.

From the moment on the planet where the clocks are the first to strike midnight on December 24th, Santa can start popping down chimneys.

It used to return the same generic results to everyone, but in December it put a service called Personalized Search into wide release.

The two top jobs were created by an EU reform treaty that takes effect in less than two weeks, on 1 December.

As Capital Economics points out, a US index of Chinese export prices was up by less than 1 per cent in dollar terms in December.

Turkmenistan halted daily gas deliveries at the end of December of up to 23 million cubic meters, citing technical issues.

Prices are trending up and a fall in December should not exclude the possibility that they would go up again.

Faced with such a situation, the HA forms a working group on Medical Waste in December 1992 to look into the issue.

In November and early December, Hamas stepped up the rocket attacks and then, unilaterally, formally announced the end of the truce.