In fact, Obama and his national security team made every effort -- successfully -- to keep the intelligence about bin Laden a closely held secret for almost a year, from the time they first identified what they believed might be the al Qaeda leader's hideout in the city of Abbottabad, Pakistan, in August 2010 until May 1, 2011, when the raid was launched to kill him.
In a rare interview, Armstrong gave almost an hour of his time this year in a video conversation with the Certified Practicing Accountants of Australia (CPA).
His wife and daughter were allowed to see him for the first time in almost a year.
He now spends four days at a time in Miami several times a year, almost always attending the city's Art Basel fair.
"The benefit over a 10-year time frame is almost certainly real, but it might be difficult to show over a shorter time frame, " he says.
After finishing 2001 without a Grand Slam for the first time in almost a decade, Sampras' career appeared to be in steep decline this year.
No matter how embarrassing the loss, almost no one will remember it in a year's time.
The 40-year-old from Andreas has been training for almost a year and is confident of getting a good time.
"It was not a very good day, " said the American, who is almost certain to end a year without a title for the first time in his career.
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During the depths of the 2009 downturn, a year when Southwest almost lost money for the first time in decades, Kelly got hassled by Wall Street analysts over the forgone revenue.
On Wall Street, for comparison's sake, almost exactly a year ago, the Dow finished at an all-time high, above the 14, 000 mark.
We view the ability to eat any food at any time of year, irrespective of its natural season, almost as a birthright.
Of course, if Samsung were going to drastically change things up, the launch of what will almost surely be the most popular Android device of the next year would be a mighty good time to do it.
In five years' time, according to most forecasters, world capacity will have grown to almost 80m vehicles a year, while demand (and so production) will at best have risen to barely 60m.
David Kirkpatrick: I think anyone who wants to pin an exact value on it, is somewhat guessing, but I don't think it's insane to say that it could be worth 50bn or even by the time even a year or two rolls around 100bn, the company's earning potential is almost unlimited.
The Europeans are the world masters at organizing conferences in Brussels committee rooms, however, now they are rapidly running out of time and credibility as they have sought to stem the forest fire of a sovereign-debt crisis almost a year after the Greek bond market hits the buffers and needed a bailout.
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