This was my retail pick of the year in 2012.
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Eastmond's score was the pick of the bunch, the 19-year-old showing awesome speed as he raced 80 metres for an intercept try.
However, the company maintained its full year operating margin guidance for the chipset and licensing divisions, implying that the later half of the year should pick up the slack as handset makers launch high-end smartphones in preparation for the holiday season.
What appeared as though was going to turn into a lopsided win for Washington turned into a victory for the Nets, spearheaded in the second half by the seldom used Brooklyn rookie trio of Teletovic, Tyshawn Taylor and Toko Shengelia, who was the 54th overall pick of last year's NBA draft and was then acquired that same night from the Philadelphia 76ers.
The past five years pick up only one year of the bear market but four of the bull market.
But the pick-up near the end of the year could not prevent China from posting its slowest annual expansion in 13 years for 2012 as a whole, growing at 7.8%.
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Even if the economy does pick up in the second half of the year, it is unlikely to do so quickly enough to absorb all the office, hotel and retail space now coming on stream.
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But if you had to pick the extra perfect time of year, it would be May when the city gets an infusion of festival-charged energy.
Matthew Parker was the pick of the Scottish bowlers, with the 20-year-old taking seven wickets over two Dutch innings as well as making 65 in Scotland's first outing with the bat.
Most guess that the economy will begin to pick up in the second half of the year, after a poor second quarter.
Moscow Flyer also proved to be the pick of Geraghty's winners last year, taking the Queen Mother Champion Chase and the 10-year-old is his banker once again this year.
The federation said the flow of residential approvals during the second quarter of 2011 "resumed its negative trend" in the UK as a whole, after a brief pick-up at the beginning of the year.
The economic recovery will continue, though, and probably begin to pick up in the second half of the year.
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Those analysts estimate that earnings increased 5 percent in the first quarter and will pick up their pace through the rest of the year.
They convinced a local recycling business owner, Phoenix Recycling to help with getting the program started by providing free pick up for the first half of the school year.
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The team's first-round draft pick last year out of North Carolina confirmed the position switch Thursday during the Jets' first open locker room media session since last season.
And as players go, the biggest story of the 1983 draft: the San Francisco 49ers, without a first round pick that year, stole dynamic running back Roger Craig in the second round out of the University of Nebraska with the 49th pick.
Nonetheless, those who are advocating cutting government spending at the federal, state and local levels should be encouraged by the pick-up in the job market since the first of the year.
John Lucaswas the No. 1 pick of the 1976 NBA draft, had a 14-year pro career and coached in the NBA. North Carolina State's Mr. Thompson is in the Basketball Hall of Fame.
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The list of winners of the 2012 Top Safety Pick award for vehicles with the highest levels of crash protection is longer than ever this year.
Gurian also looks for technology spending in the United States to pick up later this year when a lot of uncertainty about the geopolitical situation will be cleared up.
The Treasury Department tried to force the issue this year when it offered to pick up part of the tab for Fannie and Freddie if the government-supported mortgage giants adopted an existing federal program that subsidizes such write-downs for struggling borrowers.
"With the industrial production growth continuing to slump, there are now fears that earlier expectations that economic growth may pick up in the second half of the year, may not be realised, " said Alistair Thronton of IHS Global Insight in Beijing.
They have gone on to reach out further into the cultural market place with the Game City Prize that draws on a panel of distinguished judges (outside the world of gaming) to pick a top game each year.
They all reckon the Welsh Government is right to build on the current system, right to give schools the choice of pinning everything on one set of exams or letting pupils pick up marks during the school year.
He took the title from Jason Ronovech of Paradigm Capital Management, who missed the cut this year with his 2012 long pick of QLogic (down 35%).
So, Alfred Poor spends some time helping people figure out when the best time of the year is to pick up an HDTV.
DiPietro, the No. 1 overall pick in the 2000 NHL draft, earned 32 wins in the first year of his megadeal and 26 the following season.
Global market volatility brought the market for new listings to a virtual halt over summer but they are expected to pick up again in the final months of this year.
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