earlier this year

In a statement earlier this year, he said he had 'conducted himself lawfully in his business and in his personal life. '

The works council said that so far there had been very positive feedback to the new email rules which came into force earlier this year.

Earlier this year, the suspicion was that growth numbers had been "smoothed" to conceal a recession.

Such a focus would have been hard to imagine during the ill-tempered fiscal battle between Mr Cantor and Mr Obama earlier this year.

Harry Reid, the Senate majority leader, spoke for many earlier this year when he said the war was lost.

The only question mark surrounds the strength of his neck, which he injured in a motorcycle accident earlier this year.

I was lucky; I heard about him for years, and I finally met him earlier this year at his museum in Chengdu.

In an interview earlier this year, he said: 'Sometimes I feel like more of a woman, other times I feel male.

She already has a discreet M on the palm of her hand - a tribute to her mother, Marcheline Bertrand, who died earlier this year.

This anti-immigrant demonstration in Athens earlier this year was one of many to turn violent.

Earlier this year, Obama said he did not think the country should use the strategic oil reserves "at this point. "

The company, which had long been an opponent of electrification, changed its stance earlier this year in light of slipping global sales.

His financial adviser was just as shy -- until earlier this year, when he changed his mind and encouraged Mr. Allen to start buying.

In equities, the widespread sell-off may have been a reaction to the overoptimism that prevailed earlier this year.

He met Ms. Hilton and her father earlier this year through a mutual friend and pitched the idea of a collaboration, he said.

Earlier this year, a written warning telling her to shape up from her producer in Georgia Rules was circulated in the press.

The matter came up for discussion during the visit of Defence Secretary to Beijing earlier this year.

Earlier this year, she had trouble finding someone to change his catheter twice a week while she was at work.

Earlier this year it seemed that the Bank of England's next move might be a rise in interest rates as inflation was taking off again.

Earlier this year, research group comScore said the game had been installed by one-third of Apple app users.

Earlier this year, a candidate for an administrative position at BankRate showed up to an interview with a preschooler in tow.

Bush himself has said he does not view the Olympics as a political event. "I view it as a sporting event, " he said earlier this year.

Earlier this year, the company entered into a joint venture with Bright to help GNC sell its products in the fast-growing Chinese market.

The recovery, which had been flashing signs of strengthening earlier this year, is losing momentum.

So much so, in fact, that SiCortex was one of two companies Dr Metcalfe dropped from his portfolio earlier this year.

He said the reductions are possible because his decision to send additional troops earlier this year has improved security.

He said it was "very cool" and "such an honor" to visit the White House earlier this year.

Earlier this year Mr Feinberg said he would pay them for up to four times their 2010 losses.

Britain's Tony Blair dropped in on him in Tripoli in 2004, and was back again to sign an oil deal earlier this year.

Earlier this year he said the only good thing about 2011 for Spain was that it would be better than 2012.

He said: 'Buying the dessert was a real boost for my morale. I was dumped earlier this year and felt this could be a decent pick-me-up.

Prior to his nomination to the vice-presidency earlier this year, Daniel Morris was an intensely-some would say obsessively -private person.

Earlier this year, Chatham House, a think-tank, commissioned twin polls of the general public and a group of "elite opinion formers" .

Earlier this year the Prince, who works at RAF Valley in Anglesey, revealed how he gave Kate his mother's blue sapphire engagement ring.

All three groups sold their stakes in Rongsheng earlier this year, according to a person familiar with the matter.

This anti-immigrant demonstration in Athens earlier this year was one of many (demonstrations) to turn violent.

Earlier this year, she bought a sailing boat and is training to be proficient enough to sail the boat on her own.

You may find this lecture I gave at my workplace (University College London) earlier this year helpful to expand on some of these ideas.

However, he said the Fed is unlikely to repeat in the near term the extensive stress-tests done on major U. S. banks earlier this year.

Earlier this year an editorial by a leading practitioner in the American Journal of Psychiatry argued in favour of such a move.

Earlier this year, Mr. Murphy flew to Moscow for a week with a laptop Center had told him to buy: an Asus EE PC 1005HA-P.

Earlier this year, the Observer reported that the total area being bought up by rich nations was more than double the size of the UK.

Earlier this year, scientists concluded that she was the planet's last known female Yangtze giant soft-shell turtle.

Earlier this year, a (public) report by the IEG said the bank could congratulate itself on promoting energy efficiency.

He unwrapped the black-and-white photo he took of her earlier this year and left her almost speechless.

Lenovo earlier this year bought back Lenovo Mobile, its handset unit, which it had sold little more than a year earlier.

Earlier this year, NHTSA Chief Counsel Kevin Vincent said the auto industry isn't certain about whether the vehicles are safe after a crash.

Earlier this year, he was nearly hit by a speeding lorry while out on his bicycle scouting for locations for new cycle routes.

Earlier this year Ding said he, too, wanted to get into pig farming, with a focus on raising organic livestock.

Earlier this year, Sir Alex described Foster's capture as "a great bit of business" and tantamount to "guarding the future of the club" .

No-one was more critical than Bolivia, which earlier this year hosted its own 'social summit' on climate change.

New Entity's parent group was shocked into action earlier this year when investors began to pull out of the group.

Lou Miscioscia, an analyst with Brigantine Advisors, said the tech-spending falloff appears to have bottomed out earlier this year.

The Duchess of Cambridge was also acclaimed earlier this year for her remarkable poise at the royal wedding.

The matter was first brought to my attention earlier this year.

When Secretary of Defense Robert Gates asked if he could come to Beijing as part of his five-nation tour earlier this year he was rebuffed.

And with an astonishing discovery made earlier this year, the cost of superconducting cable might soon plummet further.

Dow Chemical Co. also confirmed it had a two-week phenol shutdown at its plant in Oyster Creek, Texas, earlier this year.

Earlier this year, First Lady Michelle Obama took some heat for wearing a sleeveless shift dress in her official White House portrait.

But the president said he is not open to major changes to health-care reform legislation passed earlier this year.

Since the dark days earlier this year, the stock market has bounded sharply higher.

The iconic ready-to-eat cereal forms the basis of a new snack mix that debuted earlier this year.

Earlier this year, Exxon Mobil broke the record for this sort of long-distance drilling with a well over 11km (7 miles) long.

Earlier this year, Pausch spoke with Reader's Digest about what matters most in life -- making memories with his wife and three children.

StartUp Britain, launched earlier this year, is trying to do much the same as Startup America.

The Shanghai market was one of the catalysts earlier this year.

Earlier this year a pig adopted a tiger cub and raised him along with her piglets because his mother couldn't feed him.

The prospects for a second stimulus package (on top of the tax rebates sent out earlier this year) will rise, as a result of the jobs data.

Earlier this year, when he was up against all Republican contenders, he was down in the polls.

Though the plan had to be scrapped in the end, GM tried earlier this year to position China as a factory floor for the U.

Earlier this year, Wen said China would target 7% growth over the next five years, rather than 8% as it has done previously.

Earlier this year the firm wouldn't extend credit to a real estate agent in Florida who made $2 million a year.

Earlier this year my family and I were in San Diego when a large aircraft carrier returned home from its tour of duty.

Earlier this year, the State Administration of Taxation decided that university students were going to have to pay taxes on their earnings.

The penguins had been joined temporarily by a group of Gentoo penguins earlier this year while they were in transit.

The central bank played down the threat from deflation, a threat it had emphasised earlier this year.

Pyongyang pulled out of the long-running six-party nuclear disarmament talks earlier this year.

Encouraged by her new boyfriend Wang Ning, a keen snowboarder, Vicky decided earlier this year to take up the sport as well.

The bank admits that a theft occurred at its warehouse earlier this year, but it's not exactly sure what was stolen.

And a survey conducted by the British Department of Transport earlier this year supports what Metz said.

Cook has been filling in for Jobs since he took a medical leave earlier this year.

Earlier this year, two officers approached me as I was exiting Tokyo Station and asked to see an ID and the contents of my purse.

Hyundai launched the new version earlier this year, after redesigning it in just four years, a year faster than the industry norm.

Earlier this year, the police launching a new round of action, clamp down on satellite antenna installation without permission.

Earlier this year, Ford said it would be satisfied if it could stabilize its market share.

"It would have been lovely if we could have launched this fund earlier this year, " he said.

A commemorative MSN. com piece flatly asserted earlier this year that "taking the pill has no impact on breast cancer risk. "

I raided my stash of fabric that was given to me earlier this year when a relative wasn't going to do a project she had planned.

Cheng abruptly quit the airwaves earlier this year, citing political pressure, but had vowed to be back in September.

Earlier this year I left my church and along with that I left the approval of my friends some of whom I had known for 14 years.

Segway Inc, the company established to commercialize the technology, was sold to a British firm earlier this year.

Possibly in an effort to chase the coffeehouse crowd, Coke decided to give it another go, starting in France earlier this year.

The app will also show geographical information courtesy of the Google Maps Layers feature the company introduced earlier this year.

A recent major development expected to reduce fraud considerably is China's Social Insurance Law that came into force earlier this year.

Earlier this year it joined three of the largest secular parties in a united front to demand guarantees that the voting would be fair.

Earlier this year, Turkish soldiers entered Iraq in a week-long operation.

Foster and Usher announced their engagement earlier this year, and later, that she was expecting his first child.

But the true depth and extent of the losses did not become clear until earlier this year, Mr. Paulson said.

But Sri Lanka says, with some justification, that this is more the result of the LTTE having been defeated earlier this year.

Earlier this year, Iran started its own 20% enrichment and insists that this will continue.

When Mr Ribadu's anti-corruption investigations got too near the top of government earlier this year, he was promptly relieved of his post.

In an attack earlier this year in western Kenya's Kisii district, five old people were dragged out of their homes and burned alive.

Earlier this year Josef Ackermann, the head of Deutsche Bank, warned that unilateral pay limits would leave it unable to attract good staff.

Icahn had criticized Yahoo chief executive Jerry Yang and others for blocking the sale of the company to Microsoft earlier this year.

The company introduced its feisty little compact earlier this year, the first in a planned wave of new vehicles.

When I decided to write this column earlier this year, I chose to focus on a single aspect of my personality and its effect on my life.

Oil's rebound earlier this year seems to have choked sales again.

Its current-account surplus would vanish and it might suffer the same sort of turbulence as Greece did earlier this year.

It did not help when two Iraqis in Kentucky were charged with supporting extremists earlier this year.

Martin Fowler presented a great analogy in a joint keynote he and I gave earlier this year about why agile practices work.

Earlier this year, Mr Lee proposed a unification tax to help prepare for the costs of a united Korea.

The issue featured in a complaint to the German cartel office earlier this year from German magazine and newspaper publishers.

And earlier this year there was a 'Putin party' at a top Moscow nightclub where strippers sang to Mr Putin's rendition of Blueberry Hill.

Earlier this year several thousand likely matches were identified on Facebook, prompting the company to suspend or remove the accounts.

Earlier this year, the company's executives expected memory-chip prices to rebound around August or September, reviving profit margins.

Google said earlier this year that it would phase out censored search deals with its Chinese partners.

Herbert Hainer, Adidas chief executive, said earlier this year that the Olympics would be "an inflection point" for Asian consumers.

Earlier this year, Mister Sipan received money from the United States to help support traditional arts.

The bank shut the subsidiary earlier this year and earned a 30 per cent discount on its fine by settling the case early.

Earlier this year, President Obama called for the United States to double its exports within five years. He says that goal can be met.

Peru's FTA with China came into force earlier this year, while it concluded one with South Korea in September, and soon with Thailand.

Earlier this year an official report found that village dwellers lived an average of two years longer than those living in towns and cities.

Irina is clearly becoming accustomed to posing in her underwear after modelling for Italian lingerie brand Intimissimi earlier this year.

Earlier this year the Russian Ministry of Economic Development has estimated that this year Russia's GDP growth of 4%.

From there he made a move to Internazionale in 2009 and earlier this year he helped his team win the 2010 Champions League Final.

Adm Willard revealed earlier this year that China's ASBM was undergoing extensive testing and was close to deployment.

Addressing perceived internal threats, the regime clamped down on private market activities earlier this year.

Earlier this year Veronica Berlusconi, Silvio Berlusconi's wife of almost three decades, tired of her husband's reported boorish behaviour.

Arsenal fan Poulter launched his 'IP' fashion range earlier this year to: 'sex up golf a bit, make it more funky'.

The State of California removed the bird from its own endangered species list earlier this year.

Earlier this year Mr Ghosn brought Daimler, a German maker of trucks and luxury cars, into a three-way alliance with Renault and Nissan.

"Wherever she has worked, she has had a strong voice and impact, " Robert Zoellick, president of the World Bank, observed earlier this year.

Taiwan notified the US earlier this year that the 2006 shipment did not contain the batteries requested.

In response to a suggestion from BBC Wales audiences earlier this year, the British government is considering a ban of all plastic bags.

Earlier this year, Chinese officials had suggested they were uncomfortable with the Federal Reserve's rapid expansion of its balance sheet.

Taylor struggled with health issues most of her life and was hospitalized earlier this year with congestive heart problems.

The company said earlier this year that it was seeking $7. 7 billion in Energy Department loans to push ahead on more energy-efficient cars.

Earlier this year, famine was declared in six areas of southern Somalia after back-to-back years of poor rain.

Earlier this year, the strong euro did not pose a threat as demand was still upholding.

Mr. Martin is a freelance photographer who led photo coverage for The Wall Street Journal of the Egypt uprising earlier this year.

The Indian stock markets have been falling since worries rose about a slowdown in the U. S. economy earlier this year.

Earlier this year he said a financial crisis reveals which players have been "swimming naked, " because the tide goes out.

"I feel like a second parent in the sense that I helped raise my family, " Lindsay told Alluremagazine earlier this year.

His team made its first claim that it could crack the code in 2007 and again earlier this year, she said.

In three speeches in Prague, Cairo and Accra earlier this year, he used the full power of his rhetoric to win people over.

Earlier this year he signalled that he might step aside to make a bipartisan government happen.

Earlier this year the DPP grumbled that it was a conduit for immigrants, undermining Denmark's strict controls.

Earlier this year, there was an apparent breakthrough.

Apple has been under heavy fire since the publication, earlier this year, of a Times expose on the Apple supply chain.

The long-beleaguered Test and Performance Tools Platform project was terminated earlier this year, and won't be part of Indigo.

Earlier this year, Fidel Castro, who ruled Cuba for decades, stepped down and ceded power to his brother, Raul.

The young star put her education on hold at America's Brown University earlier this year to focus on her acting.

Kim Jong-il did not attend the parliament's previous one-day meeting earlier this year.

Earlier this year, there was a series of violent clashes between the two sides inside the National Assembly.

Deloitte resigned as Longtop's auditor earlier this year after discovering alleged accounting improprieties at the company.

As soon as the democracy bug began to spread earlier this year, Mr. Assad wavered between promises of reform and growls of repression.

Actually, during some periods earlier this year the wind provided almost 40% of Spanish power.

The carmaker sacked three senior executives earlier this year, claiming they had sold information about the company's electric-car business.

The investigation was launched earlier this year after glitches were discovered in the company's add-value machines.

One of the key objectives in adopting WP7 earlier this year was to improve Nokia's lamentable US performance.

We are pleased with the commitments that came out of President Hu's visit earlier this year.

As I wrote earlier this year, the US's monetary policy has already laid the seeds of the next Crisis.

Average daily turnover for yen-dollar trading earlier this year was over $550bn, according to the Bank for International Settlements.

Earlier this year I was kicking around the Solomon Islands and ended up one day at a small resort just south of the port of Gizo.

It was finally tamed earlier this year, when a group of mathematicians managed to construct a map that describes it completely.

China Mobile, China Unicom and China Telecom had earlier this year said they will reduce network investments over the next few years.

Andconfident predictions of that, earlier this year, have come to nothing.

RIM partly assuaged India by setting up the small Mumbai facility earlier this year to handle surveillance requests from India.

Earlier this year, five Chinese vessels were involved in a stand-off with a survey ship from the US navy off China's Hainan Island.

Earlier this year, the British Journal of Sports Medicine published new guidelines for concussions in children and teens.

GM agreed to spin off the Opel division before the troubled company went into bankruptcy earlier this year.

In an incident earlier this year, Afghanistanreleased five top Taleban prisoners in exchange for an Italian journalist being held hostage.

Earlier this year Audi's plans for a lighter pair of next-generation S4 and S5 performance variants were revealed.

Earlier this year, when flooding washed out large portions of the track, the venerable train was put out of commission.

Earlier this year, the Treasury Department supplied the company with $5 billion through its Troubled Asset Relief Program.

Earlier this year the firm said it wanted applications running on its platform to accept its virtual currency, known as Facebook Credits.

Earlier this year Hunan TV persuaded Qinghai Satellite TV to carry some of its programmes.

Earlier this year, the head of Iran's navy said that mining the strait of our moves would be as easy as drinking a glass of water.

After relative calm earlier this year, some other European countries also have had their borrowing costs rise.

Originally considered a caretaker leader, the mayor of Lille led the party to a sweeping victory at regional elections earlier this year.

It certainly doesn't do any harm. Of course, this is something that we've been trying to do earlier this year.

The United States believes North Korea helped Syria build a nuclear production facility, which Israeli warplanes bombed earlier this year.

Earlier this year a state regulator siphoned off some of Ambac's most toxic assets and put them into "rehabilitation" .

Earlier this year, Rosberg was quoted as warning that without a race-winning car, he will seek a move to a more competitive team next year.

Mr Askew and Ms Guthrie left the company earlier this year for no given reason.

Yet when asked for business advice from Google CEO Larry Page earlier this year, he obliged, telling him to focus on just five products.

He remains a member of Singapore's parliament but stood down from his cabinet position earlier this year.

Against this background, power companies have been refusing to pay the prices they negotiated with the coal companies earlier this year.

"The disagreements of earlier this year should not be seen as the norm for the relationship, " said a US official.

Ms. Whitman, who joined H-P's board earlier this year, conceded the company had lost investors' confidence.

Earlier this year it estimated that 19, 000 cancers a year in the UK could be prevented if people lost their excess weight.

A group of real-estate developers earlier this year submitted an alternative plan to that being prepared by the Chinatown Working Group.

Earlier this year, the company found fake retail outlets in the southwestern Chinese city of Kunming.

The U. S. had extended the invitations earlier this year as part of the administration's outreach.

Musa Hilal is among six Janjaweed leaders singled out by the United States for travel and economic sanctions earlier this year.

In a speech earlier this year, Mr Paulson eloquently made the case for China to accelerate the reform of its capital and financial markets.

Earlier this year Microsoft announced that all versions of the browser were at risk of being hacked due to a flaw in the program.

Earlier this year SAS launched a product capable of analysing the "sentiment" of chatter on social media, including Facebook and Twitter.

Earlier this year Dawa Steven Sherpa was resting at Everest base camp when he and his companions heard something buzzing.

Muddy Waters also targeted Sino-Forest Corp. earlier this year, alleging it was engaged in a fraud that overstated assets and revenue.

Gary Neville has admitted he thought his career was coming to an end earlier this year.

Earlier this year, Google announced that it was using DoubleClick Ad Exchange to expand into the video marketplace.

In an incident earlier this year, Afghanistan released 5 top Taleban prisoners in exchange for an Italian journalist being held hostage.

Measures taken earlier this year to control property speculation have so far not succeeded in bringing down prices.

Earlier this year Patricia Espinosa, Mexico's foreign minister, renegotiated $400m of debt on which Cuba had defaulted.

In the first TV interview since filing for divorce from Brad Pitt earlier this year, Aniston said that she's now in a good place.

The White House earlier this year released the Obama administration's first National Security Strategy.

Felix graduated into a top level Apache project earlier this year; the project team released version 1. 0. 1 back in October.

Earlier this year, unfounded rumours of a march in Georgia sparked off several days of counter-demonstrations in the coastal city of Batumi.

One only has to look at its masterful but unconventional handling of the iPhone 4 antenna issue earlier this year to see how that works.

A memo from SEEC to Caijing editors earlier this year pressing for that more-narrow purview helped fuel tensions, according to one staffer.

That's why I was so incredibly happy to see the Phusion team come out of nowhere earlier this year with Passenger (aka mod_rails).

But earlier this year the EU said it would hold up the agreement until Israel did more to alleviate the plight of Gaza.

Earlier this year the airline postponed or cancelled half of the 29 plane deliveries it had expected in 2009.

Politicians also see the advantages of these arrangements and legislation was passed earlier this year to promote employee co-ownership.

A drought earlier this year quickly turned into a full-blown famine that has hit 4 million people and already killed tens of thousands.

Australia's central bank has cut its forecast for growth due to a "slower-than-expected" recovery from floods earlier this year.

By blaming the short sellers, Mr Fuld echoed the testimony of a fellow victim of the credit crisis earlier this year.

A cyber attack earlier this year on the International Monetary Fund was also said to have connections to China.

The report also contradicts pledges by senior officials earlier this year that grandparents would be given far greater rights.

The meeting is the latest opportunity to address trade and strategic issues that exacerbated bilateral tensions earlier this year.

Mr Strauss-Kahn had confessed to French journalists earlier this year that, with his numerous liaisons, he was vulnerable to a trap.

Earlier this year we talked about the usefulness of a simple command line to query multiple web services via a set syntax.

I went and seen Russ Taff sing earlier this year (2000), and as he was singing, he began weeping and crying out to God.

Earlier this year, it launched an online reporting system that allows brands to submit product listings they believe to be fakes.

Earlier this year I got pretty bored and decided to do something creative in my spare time.

One of the leading IT outsourcing companies, Satyam, revealed a massive fraud earlier this year.

But earlier this year Louis Freeh, the FBI's boss, listed both organizations among the most active domestic terrorist groups.

Earlier this year the MoD was forced to allow Nepalese Gurkha mercenaries who have served in the British army to settle in Britain.

Earlier this year, the university announced that it would no longer expect its courses to conclude with final exminations.

If you'd like to see some month-by-month specifics, I posted my 2005 Adsense revenue figures earlier this year.

That, after all, was the fate of investors who bought preference shares in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac earlier this year.

Mali, for instance, was accused of feebleness when it freed some Islamists earlier this year in exchange for a French hostage.

Earlier this year I announced the release of an app I had been working on for Android called PaceMaker.

Dick Cheney, after 40 years in Washington, hinted earlier this year that he might write a book after leaving the vice-presidency.

His replacement was earlier this year forced to admit that the high-speed trains would be less speedy than promised.

The terminal building, opened earlier this year, is said to be bigger than all of Heathrow's terminals combined.

Trials of the S-ICD began in Europe earlier this year, and Cameron Health hopes to win regulatory approval by the summer.

Earlier this year, he told me a story that, he says, keeps coming back to him.

Earlier this year, thousands of people rated the Paleo diet the best way to lose weight, despite a report claiming it was ineffective.

That tension eased slightly following Chinese President Hu Jintao's state visit to the United States earlier this year.

Porsche went into significant debt earlier this year acquiring a majority share in Volkswagen.

Earlier this year, I promised that I would sprint to the finish of my time as President. We are working hard to keep that promise.

Earlier this year, an investigation was launched after Jaffa oranges said to have originated in Israel were discovered on sale.

Relations have worsened since the killing of Osama bin Laden at his home in Pakistan earlier this year.

Earlier this year, however, a mother panther and her two kids were seen as they walked along the road.

An investigation held earlier this year revealed officers had mistakenly taken down the wrong details from motorists' documents.

China's government was unhappy when India, Japan and the U. S. held a smaller naval exercise in the western Pacific earlier this year.

In a mock courthouse earlier this year, the smack of a gavel opened a case for the ages.

But since the death earlier this year of its chairman, Sulaiman al-Gosaibi, the group has suffered a reversal.