• Counting the pending Los Angeles state court action Koch filed against a California wine collector late last year (see September 2009 report from Wine Spectator), that makes two counterfeit-wine suits Koch has filed in the last half-year.

    FORBES: Billionaire's RICO Suit Against Christie's Alleges Wine Counterfeiting

  • But while the good times are back--the tech-heavy Nasdaq hit a six-and-a-half-year high last week--tech trade and new-economy publications have not bounced back.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Wage and salary growth has slowed from about 4.5% before inflation year-over-year during the height of QE2 during first half of last year to a meager 3.2% nominal growth year over year since the start of this year.

    FORBES: Two Reasons To Be Bullish

  • Singapore's extraordinary first-half GDP growth of 17.9% looks slightly less otherworldly against last year's first-half contraction of 5.3%.

    ECONOMIST: Banyan

  • About 139.3 million smart phones were sold world-wide last year, and half of U.S. smart-phone users report using their devices more today than they did just three months ago.

    WSJ: Addicts of the Information Age

  • But now it plans to focus specifically on claims for whiplash injuries - of which there were more than half a million last year - and how they affect what drivers are paying for insurance.

    BBC: Search the

  • The Saudi authorities say that investment in the first half of this year was 17 times last year's first-half figure.

    ECONOMIST: The Gulf and its oil

  • In the meantime, content licensing went from 52% of first-half revenue last year to a whopping 63% this year.

    FORBES: Pandora Finds Little Profit in Reinventing Radio

  • Kenyan Mary Keitany's blistering first-half at last year's New York marathon is a good example it was followed by a crumbling pace in the second half.

    WSJ: Menu

  • Kepler completed its primary three-and-a-half year mission last November, Nasa says, and is now in an extended mission phase.

    BBC: Nasa's Kepler telescope hobbled by faulty wheel

  • The biggest selling daily in Scotland remained the Scottish Sun, which sold an average of 313, 300 in the second half of last year - down 6.4%.

    BBC: Scottish newspaper sales plunge

  • The Frenchman, who moved to Ewood Park from St Etienne in January 2010, is seen as a promising prospect after signing a three-and-a-half year deal last January.

    BBC: Preston sign Nathan Ellington and Amine Linganzi loans

  • Scotch whisky sales in the second half of last year were "challenging" in South Korea, according to Pernod Ricard's half-year report.

    BBC: Pernod Ricard: Scotch whisky sales 'flat'

  • As we predicted, the five-year EVA Momentum rankings have not changed much in the last half year.

    FORBES: Netflix, Verisign Among Companies With Most Profitable Momentum In Q1

  • This figure has been coming down, but a half-hearted attempt last year to make drastic cuts brought the miners on to the streets of Bonn.

    ECONOMIST: Coal in Europe

  • Itron, a Washington state firm and established industry player that sells advanced meters to utility companies, has seen its stock rise 58% within the last year and as first-half profits rose 37% from 2006 to 2007.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Itron (nasdaq: ITRI - news - people ), a Washington state firm and established industry player that sells advanced meters to utility companies, has seen its stock rise 58% within the last year and as first-half profits rose 37% from 2006 to 2007.

    FORBES: It's The Network

  • "We passed very tough moments in the last year-and-a-half with the surgery, " Nalbandian said.

    BBC: Nalbandian beats Baghdatis in Washington final

  • "In the last year-and-a-half, President Engstrom has made several bold and difficult decisions, " said Mike Cotter, the U.S. attorney for Montana.

    CNN: SHARE THIS

  • As I noted earlier, better-than-expected jobless claims Thursday (hitting a three-and-a-half-year low) was just one of the positive economic numbers last week.

    FORBES: The Week Ahead: Will the Grinch Steal Christmas?

  • Last year, Italy held second-half leads against France, England and Ireland, but finished with just one point from an 18-18 draw against Wales.

    BBC: SPORT | Rugby Union | Troncon earns Six Nations return

  • Mr Alton, who said he was "privileged" to take up the position, edited the Observer for nine-and-a-half years and was succeeded last year by his deputy.

    BBC: The Independent gets new editor

  • Operation Black Prince is just the latest in a series of missions over the last year-and-a-half that have attempted to "clear" the insurgents from the district.

    BBC: UK troops launch Operation Tor Shezada in Afghanistan

  • "There have always been pickpockets at the Louvre and in tourist locations in Paris, but for the last year-and-a-half the gangs have become increasingly violent, " said museum supervisor Sophie Aguirre.

    BBC: Paris Louvre shuts as staff strike over pickpockets

  • From controversial metrics in our S1 to our material weakness to two quarters of missing our own expectations and a stock price that's hovering around one quarter of our listing price, the events of the last year-and-a-half speak for themselves.

    BBC: Groupon head's goodbye memo in full

  • In the first quarter there were two-and-a-half times as many cases as last year.

    ECONOMIST: Dengue fever, a man-made disease

  • It made a half-billion more bread bags last year than the 3.5 billion it made in 1998, for example.

    FORBES: BEMIS Bag Man

  • All of this is grist to the mill of Boeing, reeling from Airbus's coup in grabbing half the civil-jet market last year.

    ECONOMIST: European aerospace

  • Rosemont Realty has been on a buying spree, snapping up at least a half-dozen trophy office buildings last year in such cities including Denver, Houston and Nashville, Tenn.

    WSJ: Deal of the Week: Flipping in Philadelphia

  • Globally, leveraged loans had prices 21 points higher than the average in the first half of last year, and investment-grade borrowers paid 12 points more than they would have last year, according to Dealogic.

    FORBES: Crunch Still On, Banks Stay Tight

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