• With the passing of Dr. Jerry Buss on Monday night, one can only reflect favorably and marvel in hindsight upon how this real-estate businessman transformed the Los Angeles Lakers into one of the largest sports brands in the world over the course of 30 years.

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  • But the thaw finally set in over the course of the last two years as key housing indicators signaled a definite recovery in demand for homes in the US. New home sales crawled their way up to 367K for 2012, the highest since 2009.

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  • Should he have done more in the course of the last four years?

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  • Lastly, the president said the key to sustained growth in Africa will be the elimination of racial and ethnic conflict, and an end to the many wars that have flared across the continent in the course of the last five years.

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  • As Dr. Norbert Vollertsen -- a German physician who, in the course of several years' humanitarian service in North Korea, obtained an unprecedented insight into the appalling conditions in that prison-state -- has noted, any government that treats its own citizens with such brutality cannot be expected permanently to refrain from trying to harm others.

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  • This proposal is a result of what has happened over the course of many years in allowing, as Austan said, the rules of the road in many ways to be gained for -- in favor of the type of firms whose actions we seek to limit today.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • Obviously this is a piece of legislation that phases in over the course of many years those changes.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • The President understands the tremendous pain that is going through these communities and that have seen the type of change that we've seen over the course of the last couple years in this industry as the recession has hit home.

    WHITEHOUSE: White House Press Briefing

  • And we've added five million people to the poverty rolls in just over the course of the last seven years, which is...

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  • In academe, Marchant could also be someone to make sense of the huge challenges facing the energy sector and government in charting a course through the next 10 or so years of making policy to ensure investment in the energy market.

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  • It then expanded in Asia, opening 35 boutiques in China over the course of two years, and built a megastore in Milan that houses several Armani labels and is an outpost of high-end sushi mecca Nobu.

    WSJ: The Future of Armani

  • As a result the FSA has opted to phase the new rules in gradually, over the course of several years, and has hinted that at the end of this period banks may need to hold only a portion of the extra liquidity required by the stress test.

    ECONOMIST: Banks' funding

  • John Kastelein, a cardiologist at the University of Amsterdam who is conducting a separate set of imaging studies of arteries in the neck, says that if torcetrapib removes plaque from the arteries over the course of two years in three different studies, it may still present a very compelling clinical benefit for patients.

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  • In any case, sanctions have only worked -- and worked over the course of many years -- in the unique cases of Rhodesia and South Africa, when the Communist world happily supported a guilty, moralistic West in ending white minority rule.

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  • The stories told in the course of it piece together what has happened in the intervening years.

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  • Her new CD returns to the Scene of the Crime, of course, but the crime lies in the number of years that record labels and critics spent ignoring her.

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  • No one would argue that the outspoken Lutz brings a wealth of experience to the role, built over the course of more than 40 years in the auto industry, including two stints at GM.

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  • These hydrocarbons of course lay in the earth for millions of years.

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  • The United States went to great lengths in the course of the Kuwaiti reflagging exercise a few years ago to prevent the Soviets from obtaining precisely such access to friendly strategic nations in the region.

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  • But a fitted gun that's handmade in England over the course of two years--with parts constructed by specially trained craftsmen and adorned with personalized hand engraving--is a one-of-a-kind work of art.

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  • But the President -- that's why the President made some tough choices, certainly, to bring that number down over the course of cutting the deficit in half in four years.

    WHITEHOUSE: White House Press Briefing: March 20,2009

  • This is epical change and it is unfolding, and has been unfolding, over the course of this administration and in the last two years in particular, and it will continue to unfold.

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  • Instead of keeping the derelict craft in orbit, it will, over the course of a couple of years, drag it into the atmosphere and thus to a fiery end.

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  • "Living in Russia, for the last 10 years, of course the living is better than it was in the 1990s, " he added.

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  • It drew me in not immediately but over the course of months and then years, during which I gradually realized that she stood in the back of my mind like a person in a dream, a person whose face you cannot see.

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  • Employees in the Garden State saw a 22% increase in average earnings as well as 45% rate of upward mobility, meaning 45% of the people in the lowest earning 10% moved out of that bracket over the course of 10 years.

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  • Over the course of 11 years, 169 people in the study died from heart disease and 1, 066 needed hospital treatment - and they were more likely to have been meat and fish eaters than vegetarians.

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  • While Indian courts have previously grappled with privacy claims against the government, this is among the first to address a privacy claim against the media--and, as such, is likely to shape the course of India's privacy law in the years to come.

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  • This started among the urban upper classes in northern Europe and over the course of the next 200 years filtered down to the rest of Western society.

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  • Mr Hyatt was convicted of perverting the course of justice and was in prison for three years of a five-year sentence.

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