"The new year has arrived, and with it all the resolutions that we hope to tackle in 2013, " Google's Liz Wessel wrote on the company's blog.

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As a result Amgen hadn't filed with regulators to launch any new drug trials in the year before he arrived.

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Mr. Larsen's departure was widely expected after Lex Fenwick arrived earlier this year as the company's new chief executive officer, according to people close to the situation.

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The new arrivals - named Tibor and Chandra - are just over a year old and arrived from Heidelberg Zoo in Germany.

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Examining the original Bush tax-cut proposal using the new method produces a ten-year "cost" that isn't much different from that arrived at using the old one.

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Discounts are fast becoming available on just-arrived 2012 cars and trucks as automakers want to jump-start sales for the new model year.

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When John Bissell arrived at the government-owned Central Cottage Industries Corp. in New Delhi on a two year Ford Foundation fellowship in 1958, Bimla Nanda, who was working there, had to give up her desk to accommodate the American visitor.

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When he arrived in New York in 2009 on an eight-year deal, Teixeira immediately delivered the season the fans expected: a masterpiece of .292, 39 home runs, 122 RBIs.

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And 90-year-old Victor Borge left his native Denmark at the start of World War II and arrived in New York in 1940 not knowing a word of English.

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