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.
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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.
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.
Singapore's extraordinary first-half GDP growth of 17.9% looks slightly less otherworldly against last year's first-half contraction of 5.3%.
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.
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.
The Saudi authorities say that investment in the first half of this year was 17 times last year's first-half figure.
In the meantime, content licensing went from 52% of first-half revenue last year to a whopping 63% this year.
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.
Kepler completed its primary three-and-a-half year mission last November, Nasa says, and is now in an extended mission phase.
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%.
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.
Scotch whisky sales in the second half of last year were "challenging" in South Korea, according to Pernod Ricard's half-year report.
As we predicted, the five-year EVA Momentum rankings have not changed much in the last half year.
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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.
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.
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.
"We passed very tough moments in the last year-and-a-half with the surgery, " Nalbandian said.
"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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
"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.
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.
In the first quarter there were two-and-a-half times as many cases as last year.
It made a half-billion more bread bags last year than the 3.5 billion it made in 1998, for example.
All of this is grist to the mill of Boeing, reeling from Airbus's coup in grabbing half the civil-jet market last year.
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.
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.
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