As we predicted, the five-year EVA Momentum rankings have not changed much in the last half year.
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The Web magazine RecessionWire (subtitle: "The Upside of the Downturn"), whose founders were themselves laid off from other companies, has nursed this idea of reinvention over the last half year, with stories on poverty-provoked spiritual awakenings and musings on next steps.
You can see, however, that Apple has changed the privacy policy on its website four times in the last half a year, and that Facebook has changed its terms of use seven times.
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Although the housing market has stabilized over the last half a year, the chorus calling for a double dip in housing is growing louder as data such as this runs counter to a sustainable recovery thesis.
Counting the pending Los Angeles state court action Koch filed against a California wine collector late last year (see September 2009 report from Wine Spectator), that makes two counterfeit-wine suits Koch has filed in the last half-year.
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Scotch whisky sales in the second half of last year were "challenging" in South Korea, according to Pernod Ricard's half-year report.
Global loan volume fell 61%, and loan volume in the U.S. fell 53% in the first six months of this year from the first half of last year, according to Dealogic.
"One of our suspicions is that this year unfolds a lot like last year, where we get these prolonged bouts of risk like we did in the back half of last year, " said Mr. Weinberg, who said he was concerned about the impact of a Hollande victory in France's election on markets.
He reckons his harvest this year will at best be half of last year's.
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Profits in the year to March 31st will probably be half of last year's.
Meanwhile, the number of music videos being shot in Scotland fell by half last year compared with 2010.
India's slowdown is chiefly the result of lower private consumption its contribution to growth fell by half last year.
Most were killed in U.S. and NATO airstrikes, although that number, too, dropped by nearly half last year to 126, including 51 children.
Thanks both to high mineral prices and rising output, mineral exports were up by almost half last year, and accounted for 55% of total exports.
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That means that for folks who turned 70 and a half last year (those born July 1, 1939 to June 30, 1940), they have until April 1, 2011 to take required minimum distributions for 2010.
It stuck with that outlook until August, projecting that economic growth would slow for a couple of quarters but not into recession, and then begin to grow again in the last half of the year and through next year.
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In addition, the average 142, 000 monthly jobs growth in the last half of this year was 40% greater that during the last 10 months of 2010, when the economy should have been rebounding strongly and federal stimulus spending was in full swing.
While Goldman is the gold standard in the trading business, with its fixed income, currencies and commodities trading division one of the most profitable in the industry, the macro environment has a been difficult one for trading in the last half of the year.
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The chief executive of Centrica, Sam Laidlaw, says I am painting a misleading picture - that I failed to point out that British Gas's residential supply business had an unusually weak first half last year, and that profits were therefore returning to nearer the norm.
What if actual result of decay would not follow the sequence of 50% remaining rule in which it would take a shorter period to become inactive in decay instead of that 5730 years, using 5730 years as a base to presume that the decay would last in every half year would simply falsify the age that would be computed through radioactive dating method.
Only eight financial-crisis cases were filed this year, compared with 38 in the first half of last year.
Wage and salary growth has slowed from about 4.5% before inflation year-over-year during the height of QE2 during first half of last year to a meager 3.2% nominal growth year over year since the start of this year.
In the second half of last year, after Danish carriers stopped offering subsidies, phone sales declined about 10% from the second half of 2010, according to IDC analyst Francisco Jeronimo.
For the first three months of the year, 52 institutions opened accounts, about the same number as during the entire second half of last year, the paper said.
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PayPal Mobile announced a 516% increase in global mobile payment volume over last year, and eBay Mobile reported US purchases were nearly two and a half times what they were last year.
The Saudi authorities say that investment in the first half of this year was 17 times last year's first-half figure.
In the first half of this year, investment has grown by nearly 24% compared with the same period last year, with half of the money going into high-tech industries.
TD's overall return on invested capital in America was 4.5% last year, half its target.
China first began outselling the U.S. in smartphones in the second half of last year.
The worst hit, the Dubai Financial Market, is down by half from last year's high.
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