Chief executive Marissa Mayer was brought in last July from Google to turn the company round, and the latest financial figures are the first full quarter's under her leadership.
They hope to win five or six new seats this time round, taking their total number almost into double figures.
That helps to explain why the first round of the French presidential election featured so many figures from the far-left, representing groups including the Revolutionary Communist League and the Workers' Struggle party.
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The Admissions Committee then starts to offer admission to the best candidates, and by the time you reach the round two deadline in January (my dates and figures are purely illustrative), there may be 250 or so places left.
To determine these figures, Ezekowitz analyzed the first-round NCAA tournament games played between teams seeded Nos. 3-14 since 2004. (There weren't any No. 1 or No. 2-seeded teams upset during this period.) The data showed the three statistical strengths common to the teams that pulled off upsets: rebounding, turnovers and strength of schedule.
New York won three games at home against Washington, and figures to need three more against Boston to get out of this round.
Those figures found a ready place in almost every news report about the Doha round that autumn.
The round-table deal was a canny fix, in which weak-willed opposition figures allowed the cronies of the old regime to maintain their power.
The latest round of defence cuts involves 3, 800 redundancies, and it is clear from the Ministry of Defence's figures that just under one third of those going have been given no choice in the matter.
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