If the numbers prove to be wrong, so be it, as long as the global rating agencies and key vote banks go away happy with this year's budget.
But the bravado is based partly on the hope that the oil price will rise next year, and the conviction that Venezuela's private banks will be happy to finance this year's deficit, albeit at a price.
Mr. Wang launched a "Happy Guangdong" campaign this year, pledging to focus on improving living standards while slowing GDP growth in the province of 104 million people that pioneered China's economic reforms and has long been seen as a bellwether of the country's future.
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"We're flattered and honored with the support we've received for 'Up' throughout the year, and this is a humbling, happy year-end moment for us, " said the film's director, Pete Docter.
Some analysts weren't happy when word leaked out this year that Boston Properties Inc.
Even so, Mr Morochartzis reckons the container lines will be happy just to break even this year.
"I feel very happy, this is the first week of the year and I'm really happy to be playing well, " said the Belgian.
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I'm just really focused on winning tournaments this year, just being happy and enjoying golf.
Her first book, Suzanne Whang's Guide to Happy Home Buying, will be published later this year.
The cost of college tuition was a big topic this year, and I am happy to see it discussed.
Despite the economic downturn and the accompanying social pain, this year still saw much that was happy, heartening and heroic.
Until this year American Commercial, had been happy to ride the surge in grain rates, with earnings per share growth of 15.3% from 2004 to 2006.
However, since inventories are tight, I do not expect that drastic action will have to be taken this year which will make it a happy and profitable holiday season for retailers.
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Furthermore, ZTE will continue to keep every US carrier happy with its multiple handset SKU business, with this year expecting more than 20 different SKUs in the US, most of which will be LTE-enabled.
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Merseyside-born Costello, born Declan MacManus, emerged on the back of the late 1970s UK punk rock movement with his band The Attractions, recording a string of successful albums including This Year's Model, Armed Forces and Get Happy.
"I think she's really happy that this is over and, remember, she is a 16-year-old girl still and she's a high school student, " he said.
And look, I'm happy to revisit this question as we get closer to the end of the year when I think that will even be more robust.
Thank you for your article, Joanna, I'm happy to know I'm not the only 30 year old thinking about this.
And so, I'm happy to take a look at my management style during the course of this last year and his.
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I'm very happy with everything, so hopefully I can win more tournaments by the end of this year.
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The director of the International Peace Research Institute in Oslo, Stein Toennesson, said he was happy on behalf of Mr Yunus, but argued that it was unfortunate the prize this year had not gone to the people behind the peace deal in Indonesia's Aceh province.
"If we weren't happy with Mark then we would never have signed him to be with the team for this year, " he said.
Given Points had made just two cuts in nine starts this year, the 36-year-old was not surprisingly only too happy to oblige the photographers with his own take on golf's new craze after his win on Sunday at the Redstone Club.
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If you enjoyed our Distro special editions last year you'll be happy to know that we're doing more issues this time -- one for every day of the show!
The Institute is preparing for release later this year a curriculum for professionals and parents to follow to maximize the chances for a happy adoption.
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Earlier this year, the 27-year-old was called up for Ghana but was not happy with his invitation to the national team.
Councillor Huntington said he was happy that action would be finally taken after "pursuing this relentlessly with the Environment Agency" over the last year.
AppleInsider claims to have been tracking the device get bounced back to the drawing board repeatedly over the past few years, but says that Steve Jobs is finally happy with the product and there's an internal go-ahead to get this thing ready for next year, barring any other setbacks.
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