Yet, after nearly a year's delay, and with the financing almost back on track, it is making preparations to blast off another potentially deal-wrecking missile.
This comes after nearly a year of debate, as well as a seven hour summit with Democrats and Republicans where we had a public and substantive discussion on health care.
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After nearly a year of negotiation, Google has submitted a package of concessions to the European commission to head off an antitrust investigation that has ground on for two and a half years.
Agent John Dodson, after nearly a year of harassment, including being given menial assignments and being barred from areas of the ATF building in Phoenix, is in the process of trying to sell his home in Arizona so he can transfer to South Carolina.
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General Motors, for one, is returning to advertising on Facebook on a trial basis after walking a way nearly a year ago.
The median number of applications world-wide fell 22% in 2012 for the two-year degrees, after a nearly 10% decline last year.
"It could have been more convincing, I missed the penalty, but at the end of the day it's a win, " he said after his first start for nearly a year.
The government says Chavez succumbed to cancer on Tuesday after a nearly two-year battle.
He only recently returned to action in recent weeks after being out for nearly a year because of a knee injury.
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The U.S. dollar index is near steady in choppy action Thursday on profit taking after hitting a nearly two-year high on Wednesday.
After Facebook went public nearly a year ago, its stock was battered, partly over questions as to how it would adapt to users migrating increasingly to using its service on mobile devices.
Nearly a year after his most recent comeback from concussion-like symptoms, Crosby has regained his MVP form.
Nearly a year after the suit was filed the High Court of Delhi ruled in favor of Forbes.
Nearly a year after his election, Mr Wahid's government has not yet solved any of the country's problems.
Then, Amazon finally brought the 7in (17.8cm) Kindle Fire to the UK, nearly a year after its US launch.
Warren Weiss, a partner at a Silicon Valley venture capital firm, Foundation Capital, followed the company for nearly a year after hearing about it at an investment forum in 2004.
The jurors said they had based their decision essentially on the "many contradictions" in the testimonies of Katie and Lucy Smethurst, who incriminated Mr Sapstead nearly a year after the incident.
Nearly a year after its release, The Gaslight Anthem's The '59 Sound is still winning converts one at a time: Released with little fanfare, it took off at a pace that seems glacial amid so many instant phenomena.
Nearly a year after it was bailed out by the European Union, Greece has been thrust back to the top of the agenda as its increasingly fragile finances put serious pressure on Euro zone members to figure out how to avoid a messy default.
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The threat comes nearly a year after the shootings at Littleton, Colorado's, Columbine High School, and eight months after the one meeting of the conference committee charged with working out differences between the House and Senate versions of the juvenile-justice bill that contains the gun control provisions.
I've also heard stories of malfunctioning air conditioning systems, trailers leaking during rains and noxious fumes from wallpaper making people sick... and the shocking fact is that nearly a year after the storm, more than a quarter of a million people are not back in their homes.
Through discovery in the other case, nearly a year after the settlement in Green, counsel learned of documents that were not produced in Green and promptly returned to the Eastern District of Texas with a Motion to Re-Open The Case, which was denied due to the statute of limitations, and a Motion for Sanctions.
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Evacuees could only return home after the island was liberated on 9 May 1945, nearly a year on from the Normandy landings and the day after victory in Europe was celebrated.
The message comes nine days after a 4-year-old boy nearly drowned on the Disney Fantasy cruise ship and remains in a coma today facing possible long term brain damage.
More than a year after its release, the older Kindle still sold out nearly a month before Christmas.
Figures from Commerzbank suggest that, in Europe, companies' earnings could grow by an average of nearly 12% next year after a lacklustre 2002.
Nearly a year and a half after the uprisings against the 30 year rule of Hosni Mubarak, Egypt is struggling to find its footing.
The share prices of those firms have been very much enjoying 2012 thus far, none more than Bank of America, up more than 23% after a year in which it lost nearly 60%.
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The ruling provides temporary relief for Penney, which is in a cash crunch after suffering a nearly billion dollar loss and seeing a 25 percent drop in revenue in the latest fiscal year as Johnson's plan to get rid of most discounts and bring in hip new brands failed to resonate with shoppers.
Her next stop was Silicon Valley, where she arrived with no job and practically no tech experience, after the tech bubble had burst, and spent nearly a year looking for employment.
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