• However, Kent's loss was Middlesex's gain as the county with no previous aptitude for Twenty20 stunned the defending champions with a nerve-wracking last-ball victory at the Rose Bowl in July, with Henderson bowling the decisive last over as well as smashing 43 from 33 balls.

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  • The government said that all components rose in March while with the exception of alcohol and tobacco all prices rose faster than in February.

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  • Once in the league he rose quickly, working in the 1980s with Commissioner Pete Rozelle, the NFL's visionary founding father, and later as the right-hand man of Rozelle's successor, Paul Tagliabue.

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  • Hall Willkie, the president of Brown Harris Stevens, said that his new contract figures show that the number of deals with signed contracts rose in January and February compared with the same period a year earlier.

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  • As The Wall Street Journal reported last month, crime in the city's largest parks rose 7% in 2012 compared with the previous year.

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  • In fact, between 1989 and 2005, the percent of midlife adults with children in the home rose by 73%.

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  • The disco queen rose to fame in 1976 with the smash hit Love to Love you Baby.

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  • In the 1990s, Riza rose in tandem with Kofi Annan.

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  • Later in the afternoon, the President will hold a press conference with Prime Minister Noda in the Rose Garden.

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  • In the 19th century, the splendor of these private compounds rose along with the prices for henequen, a plant in the agave family used to produce twine and rope--"green gold" that made the plantations' owners fantastically wealthy.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • In the afternoon, the President will hold a joint press conference with Prime Minister Cameron in the Rose Garden.

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  • The President I know spoke with you all in the Rose Garden prior to the Iranian elections.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • The total number of people living with HIV in the UK rose to 96, 000, up from 91, 500 the previous year.

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  • Underlying production of oil and gas, excluding the impact of asset sales, rose 2% in the quarter compared with the same period a year ago.

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  • But sales edged down a bit in December, according to the U.S. Commerce Department, and in the end sales excluding autos rose 6% in December compared with 2010.

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  • In Britain , the unemployment rate rose to 5.6% in the third quarter, compared with 4.8% a year earlier.

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  • The people he fought with in the 101st Airborne Division told Rose that he knew when to put aside the goofing and focus on fighting.

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  • The elder Kern later sold the company to Del Laboratories in 1961, and moved to the Phoenix-area in 1990s with his wife, Rose Ziedenweber Kern.

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  • For the duration of the ten-week program, either I sat on the floor with Rose or we stayed in bed.

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  • The deal with Arafat, which was consummated with pomp and sentiment in the Rose Garden handshake of September 1993, was deeply flawed.

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  • The prime minister then rose to the occasion the following day with what, in retrospect, may well be seen as a career saving speech.

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  • With the accession of the six remaining former Yugoslav states Bosnia, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia total membership in the U.S.E. rose to 28, one more than in the precrisis EU. With the separation of Flanders and Wallonia, the total rose to 29.

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  • The performance of Scottish stores was modest in comparison with shops in the UK as a whole, where sales rose by 5.5% in December.

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  • The killing comes as the monthly U.S. death toll rose sharply in March to 14 with the start of the spring fighting season when the Taliban and other insurgents take advantage of improved weather to step up attacks.

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  • Beyond, the city rose in layers of steep hillsides jammed with high-rise apartment blocks, the remnants of a Portuguese fort, and lush groves of Chinese banyan trees.

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  • The White Ferns have a busy schedule ahead with four matches to go in the Rose Bowl, then three Twenty20 internationals and six 50-over games in England in the space of 18 days.

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  • The company credited strong sales of the iPhone5, iPad and "mimamori" phones with security buzzers in them for its stronger earnings in the previous quarter, as its market share rose to 24.3 percent with the addition of 2.37 million new subscribers in April-December.

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  • In the seventies and eighties, the annual average rose to about a dozen. (Frustration with this increase led the Senate, in 1975, to lower the threshold for cloture to sixty votes.) In the nineties and early aughts, the average went up to twenty-five or thirty a year, as both parties escalated their use of the filibuster when they found themselves in the minority.

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  • Hawaiian Wilson, yet to win on the PGA Tour, matched Rose with a blemish-free performance in his sixth start of the season.

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  • Industrial production in Europe rose by 1% in December compared with the month before, and by 4% for the year as a whole, much better than anticipated.

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