Antrim, with its sprawling housing estates, has in recent years been marked by sectarian tensions.
Singapore's government has in recent years been praised for extending generous support to the city-state's burgeoning artistic community.
Her state is adjacent to Russia, a nation that has in recent years demonstrated a rising aggressiveness towards its neighbors.
Now a billionaire, Rubenstein has in recent years delved into the world of philanthropy, contributing to a wide variety of causes.
YouTube has in recent years pushed to make the content on its platform more professional and therefore more attractive to advertisers.
New York billionaire Thomas Kaplan is chairman of Novagold and has in recent years been a big investor in gold and gold mining stocks.
The firm cut 10% of its staff last week, named fewer partners than it has in recent years and will pay out smaller bonuses.
That gives the company somewhat less financial flexibility, especially since it has in recent years paid out nearly 60% of its profits in dividends.
The Supreme Court has in recent years generally given law enforcement some latitude to conduct its in a heightened security environment, but not without some checks.
The U.S. government has in recent years, for example, induced corporations to conduct highly expensive internal investigation to comply with the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
Sir Stelios, who founded Easyjet in 1995, has in recent years had a number of high-profile arguments with the management over the way the company is run.
In contrast, the government has in recent years extended the vote to most expatriates, who, by amazing coincidence, are often affluent, older and more likely to vote Tory.
Under the leadership of President Boris Tadic, Serbia has in recent years enjoyed a warming of relations with Brussels (the arrest of Mr Karadzic in July 2008 helped).
Uganda has in recent years backed numerous rebel groups in Congo, with accusations and counter accusations that its troops are implicated in some of the atrocities in that region.
And it isn't just that the Bush administration has in recent years preferred to indulge the Iraqi leadership's kneejerk anti-Semitism over supporting Israel's need to preempt threats of national annihilation.
Their compensation has in recent years increased much more rapidly than that of private-sector workers whom they now out-earn by more than 100 percent when all pensions and benefits are included.
The league has in recent years also made strides to strengthen rules that govern on-the-field conduct, while adding sideline medical staff -- unaffiliated with the teams -- to more independently evaluate injured players.
The century-old company, whose founder invented the first mechanical pencil and designed one of the first radio sets in Japan, has in recent years fallen behind nimbler rivals, such as South Korea's Samsung.
Given that Spain has in recent years accounted for a big chunk of euro-zone growth and close to half of all jobs created in the euro area, its slowdown will be widely felt.
French oil giant Total has in recent years moved aggressively to gather up a portfolio of new projects in places like the Canadian oil sands, Angola, Nigeria, Australia, Russia and the Gulf of Mexico.
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Dr. Graham formerly served as President Reagan's Science Advisor and has in recent years chaired the congressionally mandated Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from Electromagnetic Pulse (better known as the EMP Commission).
HFS, based in Parsippany, New Jersey, has in recent years snapped up a variety of franchising businesses, among them Avis car-rentals, Super 8 motels, Days Inn and Ramada hotels, and Century 21 and Coldwell Banker property agencies.
The Supreme Court has in recent years backed limits on class actions, most notably in the 2011 decision that stopped a suit against Wal-Mart involving up to 1.6 million of its female employees who complained of sex discrimination.
Apple Inc. has in recent years seen the startling success of its revolutionary gadgets, yet according to BrandIndex data, it is the Apple brand itself which still has the best consumer perception of all brands under the Apple umbrella.
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But, amid the positive economic news, many parts of Mexico continued to experience disturbing levels of violent crime, including Mexico City, a place that has in recent years emerged as one of the safest corners of the country.
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India also notes that China, after decades of setting their border quarrels to one side in the interests of the broader relationship, has in recent years hardened its position on the disputes in Tibet and Kashmir that in 1962 led to war.
Then consider that the Department of Energy has in recent years built up an insanely terrible record of wasting taxpayer money by directing funds to private companies, many of which have simply gone belly up (but not before paying lavish bonuses to executives).
And to do that, IBM, which by the 1990s had become a coddling workplace, has in recent years transformed itself as an employer, annually firing thousands of workers in one country (often the U.S.), and hiring thousands in other countries (India, Brazil, the Philippines).
And the U.S. Supreme Court has in recent years been handing down rulings generally seen to be helpful to defendants in patent infringement cases, in one notable case severely limiting the ability of outfits that do not conduct actual business operations to assert patents in court.
Demand for energy in China has surged in recent years as its economy has expanded.
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