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  • Next Tuesday, we get the latest reading on new-home sales, followed by the latest durable-goods numbers on Wednesday.

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  • The most-watched network show, according to TV By The Numbers, was long-in-the-tooth 60 Minutes which attracted 11.95 million viewers.

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  • That target was reached in the first 12 months, but by 2004 - around the time it almost closed - numbers only just crept over 100, 000.

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  • Mr Dell may be an inspiration, but he is too unique to be the paint-by-numbers role model the world had hoped to make him.

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  • So don't go to "Once" expecting to see knock-'em-dead production numbers belted out by a platinum-blond babe backed by the Rockettes and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.

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  • The foundation of fraud detection is what professionals call "information matching"--reconciling all the information supplied by the taxpayer (including Social Security numbers) with the information on W-2s and 1099 (miscellaneous income) forms, not to mention investment income and bank transactions.

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  • CNN's Ben Wedeman, in the city, reported it was "very much in the control of the Kurds" and said a U.S. Special Forces-backed, Kurdish-appointed governor was reportedly on his way -- slowed, Wedeman said, by the sheer numbers of Kurds on the road from Erbil to Kirkuk.

    CNN: U.S. reinforcements arrive in Kirkuk

  • There is also the awkward fact that the economies at the centre of this crisis have still managed to grow nearly three times faster than the UK over the past year - a fact highlighted by today's slightly better-than-expected GDP numbers for the third quarter.

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  • But the media, I think, tends to - because they're driven by ratings and numbers and they like the personality clashes and they exacerbate those - and they do make it more personal, I think it has a negative impact in the debate.

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  • The user-generated nature of the technology means it will have to be adopted by vast numbers of boats to fulfil its full potential -- although a chunk of data the system relies on is already publicly available and used by other on-board computer systems.

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  • The last Labour government set itself a target of ending child poverty by 2020 but failed to meet its goal of halving the numbers by 2010-11.

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  • Ucas statisticians said part of the overall fall in numbers taking up places could be explained by the fact that there is a demographic dip in 18-year-olds in England and partly by the fact that numbers starting university in 2011 (the last year before higher fees came in) were boosted by some who might have otherwise taken a gap year.

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  • Certainly, the big-picture numbers by themselves will not be enough to show whether the huge spending on the New Deal provides value for money.

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  • Apart from Romanians and Bulgarians, EU nationals have an unrestricted right to work in the UK. The Lords committee wants the government to tighten up on the other non-EU half by imposing a cap on the numbers allowed in.

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  • Ysgol Croesor - hit by dwindling pupil numbers - has been given a helping hand by trustees of the Italianate village Portmeirion.

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  • It does supply lots of real-time economic data, but only when those numbers are compiled and dispatched directly by computers--the computers that process stock trades, for example.

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  • But now, with the overall budget numbers set, the program-by-program review and hard detail work must begin.

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  • Most of the small-group and solo numbers are completed by the wee hours, and shortly afterward everything settles down, leaving just Stritch and the orchestra.

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  • Based on the first-quarter numbers, Avidsen projected that securities cases would reach 676 by the end of the year, nearly two-fifths ahead of 2008.

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  • This time, though, we figured we'd honor the new season by looking at a different category of numbers--those on the players' backs.

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  • The Pfizer drug's closest competitor is Roche's pill, known only by the code numbers JTT-705 and R1658.

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  • According to the site TV By The Numbers, it ranked as the top-rated original cable series on Thursday nights among viewers 12 to 34, and pulled in an average of 3 million total viewers per episode since its premiere in January.

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  • She announced plans to cut the number of student visas by up to 80, 000 - about a quarter of the current numbers.

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  • Det Sgt Colin McKenzie told the court that Ms Spence had been under investigation by the SCDEA for mortgage fraud involving large numbers of the Chinese community - and that the inquiry was closing in.

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  • The key to judging an economy's health is not its trade numbers--which, by the way, ignore critical flows of capital in and out of a country--but whether the economy is innovating and creating new wealth.

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  • Pursuing that aim, rather than judging progress by the numbers of freshly-hatched schools, is the vital next step towards better education.

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  • Cuban-Americans used to be the largest Hispanic group in Florida but have over the last decade become overshadowed in sheer numbers by non-Cuban Latinos, and now make up just 31 percent of the Hispanic population there.

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  • Mr Cameron was also criticised by the Russell Group of leading universities for saying that the numbers of state-school students had gone down in the last 20 years.

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