Economic activity in the fourth quarter was flat, as overall GDP contracted at a teeny tiny 0.1% annual rate.
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Osaka hotels are now at full occupancy, as some companies contracted entire wings.
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Were it not for that, he would have been exposed, as he had contracted for a job for which he was unqualified.
The heart problem that threatens to bring his life to an end is the result of the rheumatic fever he contracted as a child.
For any companies already having issues across the Atlantic, data out of Europe Tuesday did not offer much of a respite, as the eurozone contracted 0.2% during the second quarter.
Making heavy losses, stuck in state hands and with over-manned, expensive factories, it dragged its feet over the conversion of Airbus into a company, fearing that this would lead to a loss of French jobs as work was contracted out to lower-cost countries.
Jackson redefined the Presidency as an authority that emanated from the will of the electorate, while Lincoln both expanded and contracted civil rights as he saved the Union.
While sales of smartphones and tablets exploded, the market as a whole actually contracted by 1% in 2012.
These have blossomed as big companies have contracted out everything from accounting to catering.
YouTube compares content that is uploaded to huge numbers of files of copyright works supplied by content owners, as do external agencies contracted to content owners.
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Northern impersonality and Southern revenge converge on a common American theme: a growing number of American prisons are now contracted out as for-profit businesses to for-profit companies.
Yet under copyright law, which treats the product of employees and contracted freelancers as the work of the company from the moment of creation, Ditko owns no part of Spider-Man.
All of this means that those who have been sitting on the sidelines over the last few years as the global economy contracted will soon be crossing borders more frequently on their business trips.
Sterling remains under pressure this morning as UK manufacturing activity unexpectedly contracted in January (47.9).
Since she reportedly never contracted chicken pox as a child, she was at higher risk for developing severe symptoms and complications including pneumonia.
Bittersweet news out of the Eurozone on Wednesday: the first official fourth quarter GDP estimate shows economic activity contracted across Europe as a whole, albeit at a slower than expected pace.
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The ship carried a Navy mobile security team that is authorized to respond to perceived threats, as do all military-contracted ships in the 5th Fleet's area of command in the waters surrounding the turbulent Middle East and East Africa, the Navy said.
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Occupancy rates and rents showed little increase as consumers held back, retailers contracted and Internet retail expanded.
As a whole, the eurozone economy contracted for its sixth straight quarter between January and March, shrinking by 0.2%.
We lost more than 8 million jobs and GDP contracted by almost 5 percent as a result of the Great Recession.
As the U.S. economy contracted, Zipcar went into hyper-growth: from 225, 000 members in 2008 to 650, 000 members and 9, 500 cars in November 2011.
Pietersen is a centrally contracted player with England and as a result, like the rest of his international team-mates, only spends a limited amount of time with his county.
Though commonly known as swine flu, this virus is not contracted through eating pork products.
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Margin debt, a seldom-referenced indicator of confidence and speculation has contracted on a yearly percentage change as much as in the bear markets of '74, '82, '87 and '01.
The U.S. Navy has contracted with BAE Systems and, as a subcontractor, Boeing, to develop an integrated weapons system that combines both lasers and machine guns.
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An estimated 22 million people in the United States have contracted the virus, commonly known as swine flu, resulting in about 98, 000 hospitalizations through October 17, Schuchat said.
The economy contracted 5% in 2009 primarily as a result of smaller inflows of FDI and reduced demand for Slovakia's exports before rebounding 4% in 2010 and 3.3% in 2011.
Dr McNaught said she expected more cases to come to light over the next few days, as several of the children seemed to have contracted measles during the last week of the school term.
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Adding to this concern is that even as the number of mega audit firms has contracted from eight in the 1980s to four today, their combined market share remains formidable, especially in the United States.
While no physical injuries have been reported, if a passenger contracted a significant disease, such as hepatitis, from unsanitary conditions on the ship, maritime trial attorney John H. (Jack) Hickey believes physical injury could be argued.
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