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  • Prior to that, the UK was in recession at the height of the financial crisis in 2008.

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  • Although sectarian violence has decreased in Iraq since the height of the insurgency in 2006 and 2007, attacks are still common.

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  • At least 15 engines and 75 firefighters were called in to tackle the height of the blaze in a disused warehouse in the east of the city.

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  • The first patented version of Monopoly was launched in the United States in 1935 at the height of Great Depression.

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  • Since 2011, Soapbox Science has been used as a platform to showcase some of the most eminent female scientists in the UK at the height of discovery and innovation.

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  • Indeed, the financial and organizational history behind the Heisman Trophy is just as open to debate as the award itself has been since it was first handed out in New York City at the height of the Depression in 1935.

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  • In 1999, at the height of the crisis in Kosovo, Richard gave an interview in which he addressed the question of why the United States was engaged in bringing peace to that war-torn corner of the world.

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  • To commemorate the historic rebirth, Iksanov chose the Michail Glinka opera Ruslan and Lyudmila, which was first performed in 1842 the height of tsarist opulence and dominance in the arts.

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  • The Treasury holds senior preferred stock following the government's actions in putting the company into conservatorship, along with the older Fannie Mae, in 2008 at the height of the mortgage crisis.

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  • TourWrist CEO Charles Armstrong is so confident that Apple will be doubling the number of pixels in the height and width of its next tablet, his team is already preparing a new version of its app.

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  • And he saw an opportunity to take his vision and, really, encode it in this city that was able to represent all of our postwar fantasies and aspirations and hopes and, also, gave us a way to somehow ground our fears because we can't forget that Disneyland was built right smack in the middle of the height of the Cold War.

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  • King Juan Carlos has had to apologise for going elephant hunting in Botswana at the height of the financial crisis, while his son-in-law has been at the centre of a corruption investigation.

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  • But I was also excited by the battle of ideas, and saw the height of ideological combat in the last years of the cold war as an exhilarating time to be alive and thinking.

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  • At the very least, there is a growing chance that a record rally in corporate debt that began at the height of the credit crisis in 2008 may be entering a new, uncertain phase.

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  • The first track at the site was built in 1987 at the height of the sport's popularity, before falling into disrepair.

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