Until the Great Recession, there was only one ten-year stretch in the post-war period, ending in early 1983, in which growth averaged as low as 2%.
The two companies had started their never ending turf war in the country less than one year before.
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Less than two weeks ago, a peace deal was signed in South Africa between the Congolese President, Joseph Kabila, and one of the key players in the four-year old war, President Paul Kagame of Rwanda.
One year after the 1999 NATO bombings that stopped the war in Kosovo, American Paula Huntley found herself in Pristina teaching English.
Robert Jackson (pictured above, third from left, with Roosevelt, left), later chief prosecutor at the Nuremberg war-crimes tribunal, attended just one year of law school.
One is a piece on the Iraq war that took a year to report.
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But his departure after less than one year in the job has more of a feel of World War I or II about it, when generals were routinely "broken" or "came unstuck" in the febrile atmosphere of total war.
Until US President Barack Obama took office, Israel's one steady asset in this war was the US. Until last year, the US consistently refused to join the Red-Green alliance because its leaders recognized that the alliance's campaign against Israel was part and parcel of the Red-Green campaign against US superpower status in the Middle East and throughout the world.
Some five thousand people were killed in the war last year, including a hundred and ninety-one foreign troops and at least a thousand civilians.
Behind me now is a 6-year-old child and this is one of the horror stories of war, one the things that these doctors cannot avert their eyes from.
The tally of strikes involving 1, 000 or more workers last year reached 29, the lowest since the second world war and one-eighth the level of two decades ago.
Wounded twice during his roughly one year at war, Hagel has two Purple Hearts and is the first man to become secretary of defense after serving only in the enlisted corps.
"I would remind Iowans and others that a year ago, I stood up against this war and was the only one to do so of the individuals I have mentioned, " said Dean, whose opposition to the war helped propel him to the top of the pack.
During the Cold War, one learned not to put too much stock in the five-year plans of the Soviet Union.
When the speech ended, David Parales, a 23 year old PRI supporter from Tamaulipas, one of the most states most affected by drug war violence, stood on a chair clapping.
So the trivia question is: Since World War II, which former mayor received the most votes in the presidential primaries in one year?
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One man even died last year from a heart attack brought on by the stress of spending days waging war in an Internet game.
The Afghan conflict, it is often said, has been not an eight-year war, but eight one-year wars.
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