Graduation rates can be calculated based on the number of seniors still enrolled in school on the date of graduation, compared with looking at a cohort that began freshman year four years earlier or even looking at the number of seniors enrolled at the beginning of the year.
The number of cattle on Canadian farms rose from 13.5m at the start of 2003, to 14.7m a year later and to 15.1m at the beginning of this year.
Developers cited price of the end product as the single most important criteria for an Android tablet to compete with Apple, and that view was similarly reported at the beginning of year.
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Your two shares of Ralcorp at the beginning of this year were worth about the same amount as two Ralcorp shares plus one Post Holdings share today.
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Drought gripped swathes of England at the beginning of the year as the country basked in an unusually warm, dry March, but the sunshine gave way to the wettest summer for 100 years, hitting crops, tourism and wildlife.
"Qualifying for the year-end Sony Ericsson Championships is one of the goals I set for myself at the beginning of the year, " Safina said.
Even today, analysts think elements of al Qaeda and other international jihadists still linger in Sudan, and at the beginning of this year, an al Qaeda student wing was established at Khartoum University.
Playing for Leicester and to establish myself there was one of my aims at the beginning of the year.
Respectable growth in the farm and service sectors helped to overcome the negative effects of political instability at the beginning of this year, when a popular uprising deposed Joseph Estrada as president and replaced him with Mrs Arroyo.
And one of the things we're very proud of is the fact that we had a 6 percent contraction of the economy at the beginning of last year -- this past quarter we had a 6 percent increase in the growth of the economy.
Mr. Pellegrini says he withdrew half of his remaining money at the beginning of this year after the previous year's losses.
This hypothetical concern became more of a real worry at the beginning of this year when Russia did briefly cut supplies to Ukraine and Georgia.
So the reason I point all this out is, is that financial regulatory reform was one of our top priorities at the beginning of the year.
The firm, which has 35 John Lewis stores in the UK, pointed to the boost given to sales in the last week of 2010 by customers rushing to buy more expensive items ahead of the VAT rise at the beginning of last year.
Thousands of people took the streets at the beginning of the year to protest against the government and Basescu.
The flood of job loss we saw at the beginning of this year slowed to a relative trickle last month.
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The social media app has been in beta since August of 2011 and went live at the beginning of this year.
Sainsbury's shares have fallen from 481.75p at the beginning of the year to 319.5p at the close of trading on Monday.
Every television and radio station in the country would have to contribute at least two hours of prime spot time at the beginning of each two year election cycle.
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Neither is it far off the target of less than 3% set at the beginning of the year.
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Barack Obama, who called for the repeal of DADT while running for president and again in his state-of-the-union message at the beginning of this year, instructed Mr Gates to consider the effects of such a move.
This was previously the mandate of the Games Dashboard that Facebook launched at the beginning of this year.
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It will therefore be a comfort that Mr Greenspan now forecasts that America's GDP will grow by 3.5% to 3.75% this year, rather more than he thought at the beginning of the year.
Kelly, who signed an extension at the beginning of the year, will have four years remaining at Notre Dame after this season, which means he can only be lured to the Jets for a lot of money and control.
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Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, who put the risks of a recession at about 30% at the beginning of the year, has said more recently that the steep housing slump and financial market turmoil in August have pushed that chance up, although the risk still remained below 50%.
But given the severity of the job losses that took place at the beginning of the year and the need for us to make up a whole lot of job loss, is going to require I think some bold, innovative action on our part and on Congress's part and on the private sector's part.
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He says about 30% of the users were logging in every day at the beginning of the year.
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The 10-year Treasury rate was 1.97% at the beginning of the year.
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Demand in its home market France fell due to the impact of a tax rise on alcoholic beverages implemented at the beginning of the year.
Goldman said in the memo Thursday that the decision was prompted when the firm reached a "critical mass" of managing directors, roughly 2, 000 at the beginning of this year.
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