The stronger data suggest growth of the world's second-largest economy might be improving after an unexpected decline to 7.7 percent in the first three months of the year from the previous quarter's 7.9 percent.
It was the fourth consecutive year of real income growth and the first year in which median household income surpassed its previous 1989 peak.
When Bulgaria did it, tax revenues actually rose 5.24% in the first year of flat-tax implementation, compared to the last year of the previous tax system.
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Overall, the number of phone sales in 2012 actually dropped 1.7% from the previous year, the first drop since 2009.
When you think about it, the first year is spent operating under the previous administration's budget, and part of the third and all of the fourth are spent running for re-election.
T-Mobile posted higher profits during the first quarter of the 2012 financial year than the previous year, according to a statement released by its parent company, Deutsche Telekom.
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In the last year, there were 90, 210 first-home buyers across Australia, 35% lower than the previous year and a seven-year low, according to BankWest, a Western Australia-based lender and unit of Commonwealth Bank.
The 7, 120 boat people who landed in the first seven months of this year were more than for each of the previous two years.
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One reason for this is a better outlook for the Japanese economy, which grew in the first half of this year by more than 3% compared with the previous six months.
Fans over 35 or so will recall the Mets letting Seaver get away on a free agency compensation snafu after the 1983 season, just a year after he made a nostalgic return the club the previous spring (he was first traded to the Reds in 1977, then reacquired six year later).
Yet in 2002, with the printing business weaker and Donnelley sales down from a year ago, the margin has improved to 10.1% in the first nine months, up from 9.8% the previous year.
In his report to the nation, he pointed to 3% economic growth in the first three quarters of 1999, up from near zero the previous year, an inflation rate of 6.6%, the lowest in two decades, interest rates under 9%, the lowest in 12 years, and 19% growth in exports.
We learned that the economy grew for the first time in more than a year and faster than at any point in the previous two years.
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By its original count at least, IBM tallied more than 4, 000 new software bugs revealed in 2010, far more than the first half of any previous year.
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And the only factors that I can point to are the GDP of the previous four quarters -- again, remember the first quarter of this year, we were, I think the revised figure was negative-5.9 percent, right?
Cash and product giving combined dropped for the first time since 2003, as 68 companies gave less in 2009 than the previous year.
In the first six months of the current fiscal year, passenger car sales were up 17% over the previous year.
Its target is to give land to 60, 000 families in its first year, a similar rate to the previous government.
As a result, the economy grew in the year to the first quarter of 2005 by 2.1% rather than the previous estimate of 2.7%.
In the first three months of 2013, female visitors to India fell 35% compared to the previous year, according to the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India.
When the first six months of the Hamilton experiment are compared with the same winter months of the previous year, crime levels actually went up slightly.
The first struck when the government capped banks' lending at a level of 15% above the previous year.
The gains in its Macau operations in the first quarter were driven by mass table wins, which were up 63% compared to the previous year.
Despite a boost in sales, Creative reported an 85.5 percent drop in net profit in its first financial quarter to September compared to the previous's year's quarter.
This year marks the first time that the shortlist includes two previous winners of the Orange Prize.
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He said in an interview earlier this year that in previous downturns consumers put the mortgage payment first.
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So some patients with a given cancer may have first reported their case in previous years, and will not be included in the current year's statistics for cases, even if this is the year in which they died.
The DfE says that, despite a 60% cut in education capital spending over the next four years, the coalition is still spending more per year on school building work than the previous government did in its first two terms.
He scored in both Tests against the world champions, leaving previous IRB Player of the Year winner Bryan Habana flat on his back in the first Test before bamboozling five Springboks to score in the Second Test in Pretoria.
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