Construction in the first part of this year is down almost 50%.
The U.S. Federal Reserve, which has a mandate to monitor inflation, said this week that it would look more closely for signs of inflation, as oil costs pushed prices up dramatically in the first part of this year.
The band stopped touring in 2007, in part, to make this album and now, for the first time in almost three years, it's finally ready to take to the stage to present its new work.
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She has missed out on qualification for the World Championships taking place in China this month because she was ill for the first qualifying event and didn't take part in the second because of exams.
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In Coedpoeth, Wrexham - the first part of Wales to return its vote in the Assembly referendum, in this case a No vote - is the aptly named Assembly Road.
If they do this in the most perfect way, they first draw out part of the brain through the nostrils with an iron hook, and inject certain drugs into the rest.
Fighting partnerships between Mike Hussey, Brad Haddin and Mitchell Johnson, and a few runs from the tail, gave our scoreboard some respectability, but in all, England have had the best part of this first day.
That so many old people appear to have been left alone without any visits or telephone contact during the first few weeks of this month is in part explained by the fact that it is August, when France shuts down and everyone heads south on holiday.
And you see that embodied in the first tranche of spending cuts that are part of this deal.
This development, first reported in The New York Times, is part of a larger expected administration and Pentagon review of future U.S. military presence in the region, the official said.
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First of all, responsible in large part for guiding this process through in the Senate -- Senator Mark Pryor of Arkansas.
The TIMSS is produced every four years while the PIRLS is published every five years, but this is the first time Northern Ireland has taken part in the test results study.
This is the first time North Korea has taken part in an international sports event hosted by the South, and 300 or so North Korean athletes and officials turned up with an entourage of over 350 musicians, supporters and reporters.
In part, this reflects the fact that some of the first rich people to back Labour came from the arts men like David Puttnam, a film maker, and Melvyn Bragg, a television presenter. (Both men are now peers.) But it also illustrates a keenness to cultivate opinion makers.
In contrast, this is also part of the drag on QuinStreet, whose first vertical was education.
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Earlier this year, GE announced that it would open its first factory in Brazil as part of its commitment to Brazil and Latin America.
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As a consequence, the floods will likely lead to significant capital equipment spending for the balance of this year and the first part of 2012 to replace equipment damaged in the floods.
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Farm-in agreements, where a company takes a stake in another company's field, were a key part of deals activity offshore the UK in the first quarter of this year.
This is ViaSat's first appearance in such a report, due in no small part to the company's recent Exede broadband introduction, which followed the ViaSat-1 satellite launch in late 2011.
First, during this time period, you may enroll in a plan that includes Medicare Part D.
"This is the first part of our strategy to open mono-brand stores in key opinion-forming cities throughout Europe and the States, " David Crickmore, the company's CEO, told CNN in an interview from his office in Oman.
This marks the first year Nevada has held its caucuses so early, pushed in part by Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who hoped early voting in his home state could help his party capitalize on their growing appeal amongst Western voters.
And that is this, the first item of business on the part of the Jones lawyers in pursuing the rights of Paula Jones was to issue a set of interrogatories, a discovery procedure that is well recognized in our courts all over the land.
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