GM's deal requires it to source 40% (by value) of its cars locally today, moving to 80% by the third year.
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California estimates only modest savings of about 1 percent in the first year, growing to about 4 percent by the third year.
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Real income per head in Mongolia fell by half between 1990 and 1992, according to the World Bank, and by another third the next year.
Ranking tech hardware companies by dividend yields, the top one third outperformed the bottom one third by 4% a year since 1977.
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The increase for a coming year is based on inflation between the third quarter of the prior year and the third quarter of the current year, as measured by the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers, or CPI-W. In the third quarter of 2008 energy prices and the CPI-W spiked, giving beneficiaries a hefty 5.8 % COLA for 2009.
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Fueled in part by the growing tourism industry, the nation's GDP swelled by 7.1 percent in the third quarter of last year, Asia's second-fastest growth rate, bested only by China.
The bank's central forecast shows inflation heading up to 3% by the third quarter of this year.
Germany has cut its export credits to Iran by a third over the past year and plans to reduce them further.
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Firefox's market share jumped by a third in the last year to 19%, while Internet Explorer lost 6 percentage points to 73%.
Prestwick Airport, which has been put up for sale by owners Infratil, has seen passenger numbers fall by a third over the past year.
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Certainly Android has established itself as the largest smartphone operating system, accounting for, by the third quarter of this year, 75% of shipment volumes of smartphones.
In 2009, Scottish households boosted savings to 7.3% of income, but by the third quarter of last year, the latest available data shows that fell to 4.8%.
Favourite for the men's road race title is Italy's Paolo Bettini, who has the chance to make history by winning the event for a third consecutive year.
In America in 2002, business loans held by domestic banks that were deemed to be in trouble grew by a third over the previous year, regulators said this week.
Its chiefs said then their main objective was reducing organised crime, not making a profit and they hoped to break even by the end of their third year of operation.
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Once Orbcomm has 350, 000 units installed--which could happen by the third quarter of next year, says Paul Nisbet, an analyst with JSA Research--it will be covering not just its operating costs but its noncash depreciation charges.
Despite the Internet's importance to the local economy, by the end of last year nearly a third of the schools in Santa Clara and San Mateo still lacked high-speed connections to the Net.
Foreign investors, who hold as much as 70% of the Istanbul Stock Exchange, have been pulling out, and the lira has tumbled by more than a third against the dollar this year.
Its GDP fell by 1% in the year to the third quarter, dragged down both by a collapse in exports and by weak domestic demand.
She has come under increasing pressure from investors over the company's share price, which has fallen by a third this year, and the deteriorating industrial relations at its platinum operations in South Africa.
During the four quarters of 2012, real GDP grew by 1.5 percent, the third consecutive year of economic expansion.
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The Mint reports having sold 1.1 million ounces by the third week of November this year.
British applications to Harvard rose by a third between the last academic year and the present one.
J-Power shares have sunk by one-third over the past year (in line with the Tokyo market as a whole).
By his third year on the same George Strait tour, his song "She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy" had broken out.
Japanese game giant Nintendo has cut its profit forecast for the year by a third, despite reporting much-reduced first-half losses.
It shares have declined by about a third in the past year.
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The UK economy bounced back to growth in the third quarter of last year, boosted by the Olympics, after shrinking for the previous nine months.
The economy grew in the third quarter of last year, boosted by the impact of the Olympics, but shrunk again by 0.3% in the last three months of 2012 and would enter a triple dip recession if it contracted in the first quarter of 2013.
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