The number of homeless people sleeping in January on New York City's subways climbed to an estimated 1, 841, a 13% increase from the previous year and a 118% increase from 2005 when officials began collecting this data, Mayor Michael Bloomberg's administration said Wednesday.
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Huawei expects its 2012 global sales revenues to reach CNY 220.2 billion, an 8% year-on-year increase, with a net profit of CNY 15.4 billion, a 33% increase from the previous year.
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For the year ending March 31, 2011, the combination of dividends and stock buybacks will return over JPY 6 trillion in cash to shareholders, a 10 percent increase from the previous year.
"However, that was an increase from the previous year, which is very worrying, and we need to ensure it is not the start of an upward trend in child road deaths and injuries, " he added.
In other words, NVR paid its CEO an annual pay package that is worth more than twice the total increase in earnings from the previous year.
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India sold 2.02 million cars in the past fiscal year through March 2012, an increase of 2.2% from the previous year.
The unit currently has 23.5 million customers, an increase of 9% from the previous year.
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In recent years there have been substantial gains in the number of people receiving life-prolonging antiretroviral therapy in low- and middle-income countries, totalling 4 million by December 2008, which represents an increase of 1 million from the previous year.
Holiday shopping on the Web should increase 15% in 2011 from the previous year, Forrester Research analyst Sucharita Mulpuru asserted on Friday.
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There were 1.3 million discouraged workers in December 2010, an increase of 389, 000 persons from the previous year.
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The total number of retirees receiving pensions reached 37, 030, 000 persons, an increase of 3.1 percent from the previous fiscal year.
This amounted to a 470 billion won increase in profit from the previous quarter and a 16-percent increase in sales compared to the same period last year.
Piotroski also wants to see no increase in shares outstanding, a rising gross margin from the previous fiscal year, and finally, rising year-over-year asset turnover.
This followed the release of data showing that 12, 000 sq km were cut down in the 12 months to July, an increase of almost 4% on the previous year but down from a record 27, 000 sq km in 2003-04.
The 500-tonnes-a-year limit marks an increase of 25% from the previous 400 tonnes maximum.
That would represent a 30% increase over the previous year and this has drawn plenty of criticism from politicians and members of the British public.
Shipments of compact cameras declined last year, but those of the new type nearly doubled from the previous year, with projections of a fivefold increase by 2015, according to market-research firm International Data Corp.
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The combined caseloads produced a sharp increase in insider attacks (48 percent, up 26 percent from the previous year), which Hutton explained is because companies suffering a data breach because of an employee incident often prefer to call law enforcement.
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Average earnings increased by 1.7% in the year to July, which was a small increase from the previous month.
The pattern emerged last year, with a 7% increase on the previous year's figures for the number of students from Northern Ireland opting to stay at home.
Data Monday showed prices of primary articles rose 7.6% from a year earlier, slower than the previous month's 9.7% increase.
During the period, 49 companies received funds from Scottish angels - 15 were new companies - which is nearly a 40% increase on the previous year.
In the 15 biggest U.S. cities an average of 1, 500 people collapse and die from heatwaves each year, a significant increase over the past decade, Obasi said, without giving previous comparative figures.
The U.S. Census Bureau reported 1.1% increase in retail sales in September from the previous month and 8% increase in retail sales in Q3 2011 compared to the same period last year.
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However, operating margins contracted to 7.8% from 10% in the previous year quarter due to a combination of higher costs of materials and an increase in average retail incentive offered by GM.
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