There's yet another reason that 2006 could turn into a bumper year for do-overs.
The total loss amounts to just 12.5% of national production in 2009, a bumper year.
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Take away that one day, and Mr Spinetta's airline is having a bumper year.
My guess is that IPOs will remain constrained for some time--the odd bumper year (perhaps 2004) aside.
Last year was a bumper year after it was cancelled because of snow and ice in 2010.
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It is the latest overseas acquisition by a Japanese company in a bumper year for such deals.
Ford experienced a bumper year in India with overall sales reaching 83, 887 units during 2010 against 29, 488 units in 2009.
In a bumper year of accolades, Wales had three Olympic gold medallists in cyclists Nicole Cooke and Geraint Thomas, plus rower Tom James.
Last year the country had a bumper year because of good rains, and the Food and Agriculture Organisation expects another good season this year.
There is even a prospect of a bumper year ahead.
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Supported by higher yields than the meagre ones available elsewhere, loose monetary policy and a growing economy, many pundits in the junk community are predicting another bumper year next year.
In contrast, Porsche is in line for a bumper year, after the German luxury-car maker sold its entire annual 25, 000 production run of its new sport-utility vehicle before they were released to dealers.
It is a bumper year for the arts, with the Royal Shakespeare Company's artistic director Michael Boyd made a knight for services to drama, and RSC executive director Vikki Heywood appointed CBE, as they both prepare to stand down in September.
NTT's two regional operators, embarrassingly, reported bumper profits for the year to March 31st 2000.
Another concern is the new Libyan government's lack of interest in Qaddafi's investments in Malian agriculture, which this year produced bumper harvests.
According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Soviet Union harvested a bumper grain crop this year of 235-240 million metric tons, up over 10 percent from last year's 210 million metric tons.
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Food rations are now being distributed in two-month instalments though some say that is because this year's bumper grain harvest has swollen stocks after two years of drought.
At the beginning of this month, the firm reported that its Christmas sales were up 2% on a like-for-like basis, down from the bumper 15% recorded the year before.
The company's managing director in Spain and Italy, Jose Maria Collantes, estimates that the Spanish olive harvest will be around 50% of what it was last year - and last year was a bumper crop.
Well, that's pretty much the kind of cluster we're going to be running into with the Android camp come the first half of next year thanks to a rumored bumper crop from HTC, some Sony Ericsson gear, undoubtedly a few lookers out of Moto, and now this gear from Acer.
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Former Children's Laureate Michael Rosen said this year's books were "a bumper crop of fantastically funny stories".
But enrolments at Weight Watchers are 50% up on last year and the company, as always, is looking forward to a bumper January.
So far this year, Holland's KPN, Vodafone, France Telecom and WorldCom have launched bumper bond issues.
Last year, thousands of elms died of drought, and on the nutrients from their carcasses a bumper crop of morels has been creeping forth, like wrinkled zombie armies.
The bumper ratings were helped by the 17.2m people who saw former painter and decorator Matt Cardle win this year's X Factor on ITV1.
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