February

The February sales pace was undoubtedly depressed by harsh weather in the Northeast, and a rebound in March or April is possible.

By early February, Obama seemed to catch up with the trend, at least as it played out in Cairo's Tahrir Square.

Then, in a commentary in February of nineteen sixty-eight, he said the war seemed unwinnable.

Elections in Israel in February could produce a government opposed to any concessions.

Foam mattresses are piled against the walls and the children have not seen the light of day since the siege began on February 4.

The new law was passed a few months back in February and Cambodian police were quick to jump on cracking down on the brothels.

As you know, NIA's President made a 378% return on his investment in silver call options that he suggested to you in February.

He lured me on a walk one cold February afternoon with a promise of a drink at my favorite fancy hotel bar afterward.

McCormack expects a decision from Beijing on how much more the CIC gets to spend before Lunar New Year in mid-February.

Venus, your ruler, will meet with Jupiter on February 16, a once-a-year event that will produce a major day to circle in gold.

Until February, it had been the tongue of the Mertz Glacier, sticking out from the East Antarctic ice sheet into the Southern Ocean.

The next shuttle flight will take place in February, when Endeavour delivers a complete cupola for watching the Earth.

In the U. S. , the monthly decline in vehicle sales accelerated for the last three months, falling 41% in February from a year earlier.

Although the fighting is nothing like the intensity of February, there has been a noticeable increase.

A week before elections are due, Egypt is facing its biggest crisis since the revolution in February.

A woman closes her eyes as colored powder is thrown on her face during the celebrations of Holi in Chandigarh, India on February 26, 2010.

Since the February election was a snap one, Labour could legitimately call another a few months later to try for a working majority.

Nebraska used to use the electric chair until its Supreme Court ruled in February that this was unconstitutional.

Rasul shows me the verbs she was busy noting down in her exercise book on 7 February, weeks before her death.

In February of that year, though, he had already begun military training, part of Adolf Hitler's final hopeless attempt to stave off defeat.

In the unseasonably warm February sun we sat down on the front porch.

Back in February, the company had applied to be a presenter at a San Francisco investors' conference but was rejected.

Holiday Inn employees also took strike action yesterday for about an hour and a half, claiming that they had not been paid yet for February.

The superintendent zoo weekly feeding baby bristly Battleship abandoned by his mother, in Jerusalem Zoo February 4, 2009.

In January and February consumer spending suddenly appeared to stabilise, with retail sales up in both months.

This weekend marked the second (and final) part of my "February 2007 Mandopop Casino Tour. " I wish it had occurred to me to make t-shirts.

The White House's new position shows how much has changed since it first unveiled its budget request for the Pentagon in February.

Born in San Francisco in February 1955 to a pair of unmarried graduate students, Steve was put up for adoption within a week of his birth.

Campaigning for the general election in Pakistan to be held on February 18th continued to be scarred by violence.

On February 17, 1801, Thomas Jefferson was elected president of the United States, but there was more to it than beating his opponent.

In February a revision to the criminal law made it illegal for a company to withhold salary if it had the means to pay.

Canada mentioned that consultations held with the US in February this year did not produce a resolution of the matter.

On February 2nd, echoing Egypt's Hosni Mubarak, he said he would not run in the presidential election, due in 2013.

India is one of 13 countries that have reported their first cases of H5N1 infection in birds since the beginning of February.

The U. N. last sent an envoy to North Korea in February and it was unclear whether the U. S. and South Korea would back such a move.

In February the company sent him to Italy for a year to help partners install equipment and to solve technical problems.

He was pardoned at the time by the government and put under house arrest, but a Pakistani court released him in February.

The thaw with the West lasted until Libyans rose up in mid-February against the persistence of a corrupt police state at home.

The bank handed over the names as part of a criminal settlement it agreed to in February.

Piers was due to go on his next mission next February. The trip is likely to be delayed now but he wants to carry on.

He gave warning that conditions underpinning the outlook for growth in the British economy had worsened since February.

Since February, when he said he would consider a presidential run, others have started to as well.

In February or March, the Oscars are usually being held. In end of July, there's the Malibu Art Festival, which has a bit of everything.

Back in February G. O. P. legislators admitted frankly that they were trying to cripple financial reform by cutting off funding.

By February of this year, he finally had given up smoking, a habit which had accompanied him for dozens of years.

After meetings with car bosses, Mr Sarkozy announced triumphantly in February that he had got his way.

But the "very good upside" Mr Obama discerned when he abandoned Mr Mubarak in February is no longer such a sure thing.

It was while looking for dwarf cayman in Uganda in February that he seems to have contracted the malaria that killed him.

Nobody would have thought back in the dark days of February that 2009 might turn out to be a good year for initial public offerings.

He made headlines in February this year when he popped up in Singapore on a trip to see Eric Clapton play.

With luck, the cross-party fiscal commission the White House set up in February will provide political cover for this to be done.

Despite the array of policies, national real estate prices have continued to rise, jumping 10. 7 per cent in February from a year earlier.

Tens of thousands turned up to cheer him when he made a brief visit to Ottawa in February.

Yesterday he confirmed he would leave by the end of 2008, having reached the company's mandatory retirement age of 60 in February that year.

It will be imperative that you begin looking for your raise or new job or to develop new business during the first week of February.

In an earlier press release issued on February 6, the Ministry of Defense said the vessel's sonar dome had been damaged in a collision.

He said the first patient underwent surgery in November 2008. The second, Poe, took place in February.

An unusually personal ( "very difficult" ) television interview on February 14th seems to have done him some good in the polls.

All this has put Mrs Clinton's question from last February back at the heart of American politics.

Back in February, we named "Renting a private island in the Seychelles" as one of their "Five best getaways for a royal honeymoon" .

In late February, I flew to California for a few days to be with Frank Aller, Strobe Talbott, and Strobes girlfriend, Brooke Shearer.

Born Lula Carson Smith on February 19, 1917, in Columbus, Georgia, Carson McCullers did not always want to be a writer.

It was a great disappointment to me that I had intended to pay a visit to America in February but then I had to postpone it.

"We forecast the commodity cycle to transition through 2008 into a clear downturn by 2009, " the bank said in a report in February.

It's the time of year again when love is in the air -- or at least the pressure is on to show you really, really care on February 14.

In February 2007, Iran said it had launched a rocket capable of reaching space - before it made a parachute-assisted descent to Earth.

But the sharp drop in February compared with a year ago was unexpected; economists had been predicting little change.

But there continued to be high-profile incidents, including one where 23 civilians were killed in a NATO airstrike in February.

It moved to tvOne in February, the second time it has switched channels, after its previous broadcasters found it a bit too hot to handle.

Fourteen of these "measured" rate rises were attributable to Greenspan and three to Bernanke, who replaced him in February 2006.

In a rare candid note, written that February, he admitted that he thought he might be beheaded "at any time" .

But in fact, as the bank told beyondbrics, the service was introduced nearly a year ago, in February 2010.

They're upper-year students who look out for you and plan fun events. To combat the February blahs, my Don made us all a pancake breakfast!

They said the loading could take another two or three months and that the plant probably will not go online until February.

The chairman of the Fed, Alan Greenspan, told Congress in February 2005 that this was a "conundrum" .

Where Luce was not wrong was in his famous essay, published in February 1941, that this would be "an American Century" .

There was no choice but to quickly get used to the blustery, cold weather in New York during my February visit.

One of the biggest cases occurred in February 2006 when an anonymous video surfaced of a woman in high heels stomping a cat to death.

Indeed, it was the new Egyptian government's first foreign venture since the revolution that overthrew Hosni Mubarak in February.

The number of foreign tourists seems to have picked up since February, "but they aren't buying, " Ngifenou says.

In a move seen as an attempt to rein in the Mutawa, in February 2009, Saudi's King Abdullah replaced the head of the organisation.

It was Hillary Clinton, ironically, who gave the first whiff of this new reality on her first trip abroad as secretary of state in February.

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

Later on that morning of February 26, the clock on my office wall reminded me that it was time to call home.

Cook, who raised two daughters, moved to Huntsville to be close to one of them in February.

It's got to be serious if the New York Times puts a cover story of their February 17th Sunday magazine about play.

If you were born in February, you made a number of initiations that will later prove to be quite beneficial.

In February 1992, he showed up in the office of Suzanne Fortier, director of marine-animal training at Six Flags Magic Mountain theme park.

With its arrival this year on February 14, the topic, "To be with your parents or your lover on the day, " is arousing on online forums.

This was the lowest reading since the end of February. The claims data is being monitored for clues when the recession will end.

An old American legend says that every February 2, the ground hog awakens from its long winter nap and creeps out of its hole.

The world did not get pictures from the surface of the moon until the Soviet Luna 9 landed there in February, nineteen sixty-six.

She was pulled from the classroom in February and faced termination hearings; the case is now with an arbitrator.

On Tuesday, February 17, 2009, two immigration officers, a man and a woman, came to me when I was writing at my laptop in the basement.

He told me he had promised his wife and daughter that he would resign in February.

Mr Edgar walked to the window and looked out. It was a misty February evening, but the churchyard was just visible .

He did not mention that a run of bad inflation figures (up to 4. 4% in February) has made a fiscal U-turn trickier.

On February twelfth, outside Buffalo, New York, Muzzammil Hassan, a well-known local businessman, told police that his wife was dead.

Jackson's personal problems began in late February when he had a kidney stone removed, causing him to miss three games.

Toyota is also halting production of the models at five facilities in the United States and Canada for at least the first week of February.

In the light of our findings, we recommended to the banks in February this year a set of best practices on credit card operations.

In February of this year, Mozilla announced its shift to a new, rapid release cycle, and the company has stuck to the plan.

Didier Drogba remains out for the visitors with concussion while Michael Essien is not expected to return from a knee injury until February.

When I persuaded Bob in February to interrupt his gaokao prep to talk with me, he was five months into what had become a daily routine.

Some economists suggested that the February data might be too distorted to be worth considering alone.

But further, as Tech Review points out, Kepler is all set to reveal it's scientific findings in February.

January had also been a very poor month for the industry, only partially offset by February's recovery.

If you are a February-born Pisces, your main tests from Saturn are over; the Pisces born in March will now step up to the plate.

In February, a court in London ruled that Mr Assange should be extradited to Sweden, although he quickly lodged an appeal.

The weather has disrupted plans for tens of millions of Chinese trying to return home for the Lunar New Year, which begins February 7.

In February, Prime Minister Naoto Kan referred to the visit as an 'unforgivable outrage. '

In February, Google found itself in an unusual position: out of step with its customers.

The multiple earthquakes that stuck Chile in February and March of 2010 caused many people to ask if earthquake prediction is possible.

In the second week of February, we decided to kick the health-care can down the road and complete the rest of the economic plan.

It was one of many fires which devastated Victoria on Saturday, February 7, killing 181 people and razing over 1800 homes.

Chris Anderson of Wired Magazine pointed this out in a smart essay in February's issue, entitled "Atoms Are the New Bits. "

Every January, I make a personal budget but in February, I throw it out of the window.

The February 2011 earthquake provided the final pulse of energy to calve off ice than had been about to break off anyway.

And since the deal was struck in February, Rio's share price rose enough to wipe out the premium Chinalco had offered.

Probably the biggest change was that Google Apps ramped up this year, starting with the release of Google Apps Premier in February.

The executive said the latest strong number was largely an 'echo' of sales made before February but delivered during February.

That was the experience with the February 2008 tax cut, where less than half of it has been spent.

The state, after all, can be an effective brake when it wants to be: new renminbi bank loans fell by almost a fifth from February to March.

They said the group were linked to a militant training camp uncovered in Aceh in February.

Whether the relationship is new or has been gong strong for a while everyone wants to feel especially loved on February 14.

Back in February, when inflation fears were widespread, I wrote a column with a strategy for lower inflation and rising interest rates.

I expect to be back in shape for February and my ambition this season is to win the Champions League.

Traders said the 61. 8 percent retracement of the February to April rally was the next support level at 122. 75 yen.

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

As if February wasn't already unique enough, having only twenty-eight days under normal circumstances.

Further to this point, we've outlined in a chart below the highest closing price in February going back the last 15-years.

PRIVATISATION was to be the hallmark of the administration of Lee Myung-bak, who became South Korea's president in February.

But since February, he has been able to support his wife and two children with work closer to his home here in China's northern hills.

In a little over a year, the Venezuelan church went from almost fully submerged (pictured in January 2009) to bone dry (February 21, 2010).

The English-American actress, considered one of the great actresses of Hollywood's golden age, was born in London on 27 February 1932.

The firms would not disclose the financial terms of the transaction, which is expected to be finalised in February.

But the protesters, announcing a "day of rage" on February 3rd, told him to go immediately.

That intervention helped Chinese exports to surge 46 percent in February compared with a year earlier.

February could turn out to be the very best month you've seen in many months - possibly the best in years.

He defected in February. He just received special papers allowing him to travel and has applied for a visa allowing him to stay.

Until February 18, there had been left only a few tickets to such popular cities as Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Hangzhou, Shanghai, Beijing.

Governor Schwarzenegger warned that without quick action, California could be out of money in February.

Food prices are down from their record highs in February. But prices are still higher than they were a year ago.

On her first trip as secretary of state to China in February, Mrs Clinton called for a deeper US-China partnership.

Thank you for coming. Mr. Brown, as you may recall, the February consignment arrived at Manila seriously damaged.

Vilsack said February 3 that the money will be used to help restructure the ministry and provide additional expertise.

In February, another man killed himself, his wife and three of their four children. The oldest child survived.

In February 2003, has been desperate party want him to own up to the hands of a giant panda specimen about 1 m sold.

Supeng Biotech Co. , Ltd was set up in February 2006. The company located in the beautiful city Jiangyan Jiangsu Province.

US Judge Denny Chin is expected to hold a so-called "fairness hearing" in February on whether or not to approve the settlement.

Mr Fukui told parliament that by February he "had begun to have doubts" about Mr Murakami.

Development began in February and progressed over the course the next two months before completion of the initial system in early May.

In a Spanish-language radio show in February, he said: "I'm very committed to making it happen. "

Until the election on May 6th only one post-war contest, in February 1974, had failed to produce a clear winner.

He said it struck the deal in Pompei, Italy, in early February, which predates the negotiations between Pirma and the North Koreans.

In February, he helped the Yankees tour China with their World Series trophy, trying to drum up interest in Major League Baseball.

This was Dickens nearly halfway through his life: he was 28 in February 1840, and had another 30 years ahead of him.

WHEN Barack Obama visited Elkhart, Indiana, in early February, a few weeks after his inauguration, it was a sombre affair.

The diaries were seized in a raid on his wife's Belgrade home in February.

The last speaker of the ancient Bo language, Boa Senior, has died in her native Andaman Islands (part of India) in February 2010.

He spent the last week in February writing what he believed to be the true position of the South.

In February 1964 he was tried as a "social parasite" and was sentenced to five years of internal exile.

In February, the epidemic caused by Zhelatin variants peaked, with six modifications of this worm finding a place in the Top Twenty.

Pyongyang detained U. S. missionary Robert Park and deported him in early February.

Since moving to Arkansas from Iowa in February, Johnson said, he was living off money made by selling diamonds.

Annual inflation in Zimbabwe was more than 1, 700% in February and since then statisticians appear to have lost count of rising prices.

But the popular meaning of Valentine's Day continuesto capture hearts around the world, even if not always on February fourteenth.

If the bill does not pass by February 25th, the state will miss the opportunity to refinance some of its debt, at a cost of $165m.

Until Mr. Fujimoto released the photo to the South Korean television network KBS in February, there had been no picture at all of the son.

In February, a subsidiary of a state-owned Chinese company bought Cirrus Industries, a Minnesota manufacturer of small aircraft.

Nostalgically, Clinton people now refer to early February as a time of "joyful chaos. "

But any increases in interest rates or controls on lending were unlikely before Chinese New Year in February, he said.

Mr Austin said the food supply had deteriorated sharply between February and September this year.

I sincerely hope that it is not that of the February republic.

Eric Daniels, LBG's chief executive, still insisted on February 11th that "it was a good deal for Lloyds TSB" .

GM allowed Saab to file for reorganization in Sweden in February as it was preparing for its own trip through US bankruptcy proceedings.

During a speech in February, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called Internet freedom "one of the grand challenges of our time" .

Every February, across the country, candies, flowers, and gift are exchanged between loved ones, all in the name of Saint Valentine.

"As for the tent, with regard to shape and size it is comfortable but it is too susceptible to the wind, " he observed in February 1898.

Figures published this week showed that the number of loan approvals to buy homes was almost 40% lower in February than a year before.

February will bring a set of spectacular aspects, ones that are so extraordinary that life may take on an entirely new direction.

On the night of February 27, an old woman peddler in the capital at Taipeh refused to give up her cigarettes and was shot by a policeman.

Ren started the company after his engineering unit was disbanded and he left the army, according to Huawei's February statement.

February is Presidents' month, and in this frame, it's a fine time to spend a few hours with Abraham Lincoln.

Student B: Because February is the shortest month of a year.

When she arrived in February, Coulter found a school with almost no resources and without access to the latest research.

In an audio address released in February, al-Zawahri noted that bin Laden assigned him to advise Mujahideen on Islamic Sharia law.

In February, the government had to drop its proposal to cut housing benefit for those who have been unemployed for more than a year.

The Conference of the Parties will discuss matters identified in the first such Conference, which took place in Geneva in February 2006.

This February I finally had the chance to make the trip, an add-on for a few days following my business meetings in New York.

By February, I had begun to watch televised games on an increasingly regular basis.

She and her husband divorced in February 2007, but for financial reasons continued to live together in their house in Chattanooga, Tenn.

Climate change was identified as a national security threat in February by the U. S. director of national intelligence.

Starting this February, the joint service of every even month will be Communion Sunday. The sermon will be related to Holy Communion.

But the component of the index covering businesses' expectations about the next six months tumbled to its lowest since February 1993.

The full southern results are due to be released at the end of this month, and the final results early in February.

In February, a 22-year-old man was arrested and accused of killing his mother for nagging him about his obsessive playing.

Lack of money doesn't look to be a problem in February for Capricorn, as planets crowd into Aquarius and your solar house of income.

MORE than a week after Kosovo declared its independence on February 17th the dust has not settled.

For those of you new to the site, I interviewed Muhammad back in February on Lifehack Live.

In his February newsletter, Peter Turner, the head teacher, warned that any cards found in school would be confiscated.

For instance, in February 2008 there was an assassination attempt on the deputy dean of Baghdad University's School of Medicine.

Each February, Mister Limberty and his wife, Jennifer Esser, drill holes into their sugar maple trees.

In Stockholm, 25 February marks the beginning of an old Swedish tradition.

Local manufacture was down 60% in February and sales fell 30% in March, compared with a year earlier.

He said a formal appeal will be announced February 2 in Geneva at the U. N. Mission.

The robots and other equipment would be ferried there by Japanest H-II rocket which had its maiden flight in February.

Later, your career situation will reach an apex at the full moon, February 28. You seem ready to make a big initiation.

He said that you can vote in February of 2010 on whether Pluto should be a planet.

Last February, a shareholder proposal asking Apple to disclose its succession plan was defeated at the company's annual meeting.

When I proclaimed that I would attempt to survive the month of February on a mere $79, I felt pretty confident I could do just that.

There was an overseas education fair, held at the end of February.

Borders filed for bankruptcy protection in February and continued to bleed cash as it raced, unsuccessfully, to find a buyer.

In February, Marine Commandant Gen. James Amos stated that he'd like to see "a dog with every patrol. "

The firm will bring jobs home. In February Meccano said it would repatriate manufacturing jobs from China to its headquarters in Calais.

Punxsutawney Phil is a groundhog that comes out of his burrow on Gobbler's Knob, Pennsylvania, each February 2 to predict the weather.

But it has taken until February 15th this year for the Mashpee to be recognised as a sovereign Indian nation.

The England midfielder injured his shoulder on international duty in November but may be able to return in late February.

It says the government should safeguard it at least until the end of a trial set for February related to the lawsuits.

CNN: The press has labeled you a revolutionary but you were not in Tahrir Square during the 18 days of the revolution in February this year.

Since February, the number of monthly active users on its Facebook page more than tripled to 11, 000, he said.

The decision was taken on February 26, but there was no explanation for the delay in the announcement.

Mr. Eastlake dropped his plan to open a wine store in Manhattan, and the following February, they moved in with her parents in California.

On February 11th, at a "strategy and financial briefing" in London, Mr Elop is due to announce the change he has in mind.

So, after Cassell forced a buyout of his Clippers contract in February, he joined the Celtics for a chance to win another ring.

Sure enough, in February 2008 the auctions began to fail when there was a dash for cash.

Because February is the shortest month of a year.

The British philosopher, mathematician, social critic and writer Bertrand Russell died on February 2 at the age of 92.

This year, however, I cannot wait for February to begin. I long to embrace the unrelenting grimness of New York in February.

In February, his own home and his possessions-all uninsured-had been destroyed by fire.

You can clearly see that on February 26, there was a change in the semaphore usage, due to the first Domino 7 beta.

In the peak surf season, November through February, Hainan's east coast generally gets a swell a week.

Deposits held at Irish banks by nonresidents plunged 49% from a year ago through February, Minerd estimates.

I flew into Los Cabos from Atlanta this February during a winter break, and it was hard, real hard , to go back home at the end of my trip.

And this year's spike in the consumer-price index, which rose by 2% in February, seemed bearable at a time of rapid growth.

Thank you for sending us pictures of you and your family in February.

After this it was no surprise that Mr Cowen lost February's election to Fine Gael's Enda Kenny.

Neither of these issues threaten the company as much as its finances did in the months before February 2009.

However, some banks, especially big ones, have dragged their feet. ICBC did not lower its rates until February, according to state media.

There was some good news this week, including better-than-expected reports on spending by Americans in January and February.

When the Indian government released its interim trade policy in late February, it was the latest in a series of underwhelming announcements.

Accordingly, it concludes that the declaration of independence on the 17th of February 2008 did not violate general international law.

A graffiti portrait of Prince William and Kate Middleton was unveiled by street artist Rich Simmons, in London, on February 11.

The company's shares fell 6 per cent in early February, after he decided to scrap financial targets.

John O'Leary headed out of the house and into a near-freezing February morning.

Starting next week (February 17, 2009), players will be able to sign up to compete in this year's exciting competition.

North Korea is three months behind on meeting targets laid out in an agreement in February.

On February 24th, after a year-long debate, America's Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) responded with fresh curbs on shorting.

After a brief swoon in January and early February, the riskier end of the stock market is back in favor.

Indian Finance Minister P. Chidambaram says he will attend a meeting of finance heads from the Group of Seven nations in February in London.