This is only the third time in the 29 years since the tournament expanded to 64 teams that only one No. 1 seed reached the regional finals, according to STATS. The only other times that a single No. 1 made it to the round of eight came in 2000 with eventual champion Michigan State and 2011 with Kansas which fell to VCU to miss the Final Four.
Officials have said in the past that they think that the U.S. should only do that from a position of strength.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has said little about how she envisions an international force for Lebanon, only that U.S. combat troops won't be a part of it.
Though the growth rate was slower than last year--6.1% vs. 6.7%--that was only because of prescription drugs.
Mr. Camp will only say that Mr. Baucus is "open-minded" on tax reform, hardly a hearty endorsement.
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"I want to make it clear that the courts consider all offences of domestic violence as serious ... and that only a custodial sentence is justified, " he said.
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And with high-bandwidth, color screen mobile videophones due to emerge barely a year from now (two years before they show up in the U.S.), that's only the beginning.
And last but not least, other countries increased their spending on child care faster than the U.S. over the past two decades, from .35 percent of GDP to .47 percent, while we spent .03 percent and have only brought that up to .11.
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The historic inn is just one of 15 surviving homes once owned by a signer of the U.S. Constitution, and the only one that welcomes overnight guests.
While DirecTV officially has 11 million subscribers compared with EchoStar's 8.2 million, Jayant says that only 9.5 million of those customers actually belong to DirecTV.
Previously, U.S. officials had said only that up to 25, 000 U.S. troops would go, although sources have been telling CNN for about two weeks that the number would be around 20, 000.
Ford is the only U.S. automaker that avoided bankruptcy this year.
China and the U.S. are the only nations that use this method of capital punishment.
Over the past year, private employers have added 1.7 million jobs, but the net result of 659, 000 cuts in government jobs about a half of them temporary Census workers mean total U.S. payrolls were up by only 1 million in that span.
Palmisano noted that Watson, Jr. in his talk told his audience that of the top 25 U.S. companies in 1900, only 2 remained on that list in 1961.
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On Monday, the U.S. Commerce Department reported that construction spending fell only 0.3% in September, better than the expected 0.8% decline.
The Royals have been the kings of March two other times since 2003, but have finished over .500 only once in that span.
U.S. strategists say our arsenal can safely fall to below 2, 000 warheads, down from 7, 000 or so today, but Mr. Bush can only cut that arsenal once.
Years of fiscal profligacy and a 1 to 1 hard peg between the peso and the dollar were financed with credit, a-la U.S.A during the Bush years, only that in its Latin American version.
He noted that at one time the U.S. was mostly Protestant but that today it is only about half Protestant.
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Roughly half of Americans (49.2%) believe that the Palestinian leadership still wants to destroy Israel, compared to only 28.1% that believe it wishes to make peace.
Downgraded U.S. debt will likely only increase that hesitancy given the increased uncertainty it creates.
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This means that only 27.44% of users in that population are active on the service.
The U.S. learned during the Cold War that the only way to stop U.N. meddling is to wield a big stick.
Data recently released by the U.S. Census reveals that only two percent of Americans worked for new companies in 2009.
The U.S. dollar is hardly the only currency, and the U.S. Federal Reserve is hardly the only monetary authority that has been increasing its money supply.
Looking only at M2, the U.S. broad money aggregate, it has only risen 20% in that time period.
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