She added that he was also offered him a tin of ravioli which was almost a year past its sell-by date.
Only 30% of lung cancer patients survived more than a year past diagnoses compared to 96% of those with breast cancer.
Nearly a year past the launch, with positive results beginning to show even while a irritating swarm of bugs plagued the system, we lost several days.
The Roosevelt Recession in which industrial production had tumbled by 40 percent, unemployment had jumped by four million, and stock prices had plunged by nearly 50 percent was barely more than a year past.
Gone from last year: Lance Armstrong (our list is for active athletes only), White (now that we're a year past the 2010 Winter Games), Ohno (ditto), and NBA stars Kevin Garnett, Dwyane Wade and Kobe Bryant (probably just random, though Wade's stature decreased a tad with LeBron James joining his team, and Garnett is another year older).
JPMorgan Chase's index tracking 22 emerging market currencies has returned 7.9% a year over the past decade, with a tiny annualized volatility of 6.6%.
But at least it has been growing at 15% a year for the past decade, (except last year), and now creates one out of every six new jobs in British Columbia.
But applying the same logic to Japan, where growth has averaged only 0.7% a year over the past seven years, compared with a previous trend rate of 3-4%, one could argue that Japan's output has already fallen by as much as 15-20% relative to its previous trend.
After struggling to turn a profit for the past year and a half, troubled consumer electronics retailer Circuit City filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Monday.
Circuit City has been struggling to turn a profit for the past year and a half, and if history is any guide, the future for Circuit City is not bright.
Correspondents say India's turnaround against a relatively inexperienced Australian team after losing three Test series - including one against Australia 0-4 - in a row over the past year was a remarkable achievement.
And for Shell the long collapse in U.S. natural gas prices a 60% decline over the past five years, including a 14% drop the past year has been an extra dagger, as the firm invested heavily in capturing a big piece of the growing market that has emerged in the age of fracking.
FORBES: Shell's 5% Dividend Yield (Part 2): Will Huge Capital Spending Pay Off?
North Sea production has been falling by about 6% a year for the past decade.
Middlesbrough's population, now 145, 000, has been shrinking by about 500 a year for the past three decades.
The Italian economy has grown at an average of 0.75% a year over the past 15 years.
Its economy has grown by an average of more than 10% a year over the past ten years.
This has returned an average 11% a year over the past five years.
Premium income has grown 15% a year for the past three years and should rise as the economy picks up.
Brioni's CEO Umberto Angeloni says that the company's revenues have been spurting 25% a year for the past two years.
Tight supply and strong demand have boosted companywide sales an average of 19% a year for the past three years.
Pfizer, going forward, plans to submit four new drugs for approval in 2001, versus about two a year in the past.
But it has returned an average of 17.3% a year over the past decade, ranking it at the top of the pack.
House Republicans now want to extend unemployment benefits for a year past the next election when Dems are willing to stop with two months.
Even before the recession GDP was barely crawling along, with growth averaging a miserly 0.7% a year over the past decade (see chart).
ECONOMIST: Chronically weak growth is Portugal��s gravest problem
EDS' revenue growth of 8% a year over the past two years is 1.5 points behind the industry pace and well below that of IBM.
At a growth rate of about 7.5% a year for the past 20 years, Hong Kong's economy has been ballooning twice as fast as the world's average.
Pakistan's economy grew at just 3% a year over the past five years, barely keeping pace with rapid population growth, as annual inflation remained in the double digits.
The growth of budget operators such as EasyJet, Go, Ryanair and Virgin Express has caused budget passenger numbers to grow 50% a year over the past three years.
SAP, Oracle, Baan and the like grew nearly 50% a year in the past three years, but this year the growth rate has fallen by more than half.
The bad news for oil consumers is that global demand has been growing at 1.5% a year over the past five years, while production capacity has been inching ahead at 0.2%.
应用推荐