As in California last year, federal judges ruled in the 1970s that Louisiana's prisons were so overcrowded that they violated the federal constitution.
The VT50 series continues the design evolution as seen in last year's VT30 series with a stunning one sheet of glass design.
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Thin-and-light laptops with 28W U-series chips get a new tier, Iris, that Intel claims is up to twice as fast in 3D as last year's HD Graphics.
In finance, Asian firms launched eight of the ten biggest initial public offerings (IPOs) in 2009 and more than twice as much capital was raised through IPOs in China and Hong Kong last year as in America.
Hence, a large current-account deficit that fuels consumption (as in Mexico in the early 1990s) or a property-price bubble (as in Thailand until last year) may be a problem.
Amazon also reports that e-books now outsell hardcover books by 80%, and that it sold three times as many e-books in the last quarter as it sold in the same quarter last year.
Although it did not grow as quickly last year as in recent years, it brings in billions of dollars of hard currency.
As 1.3 million of them poured in last year, twice as many as the year before, credit union membership hit a record of almost 92 million.
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"I feel like the amount of poaching in these waters as gone down in the last year or so, " says Powers.
Amazon said it has sold 3x as many books so far in 2011 as it did in the comparable period last year.
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The trial of an Aberdeen woman accused of entering a mannequin as a candidate in last year's city council election has started.
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They have to become as comfortable talking about Medicare in the coming year as they did in talking about health-care reform last year.
Plans to place hedge funds under the same pay regulations as banks were first unveiled in November last year, as part of the EU's controversial Alternative Investment Fund Managers directive.
If demand in the rest of the world had been as strong last year and the year before as it was in the United States, then America's expansion would have been much more inflationary.
Installed as Ray Jennings' successor in May 2005, Arthur guided South Africa to their maiden Test series victory in Australia last year, as well as their first series win in England for over 40 years in 2008.
Yet, although there is no large British-owned car maker, Britain made almost twice as many cars last year as it did in 1980 and its share of the West European market has grown by a third to roughly 12.5%.
The strong peso has hurt exports, but not as much as last year's falloff in demand from the U.S. So far this year the Mexican Bolsa is up 10% in dollar terms, but stocks are still relatively cheap at 17 times earnings.
Indeed, taking account of the impact on the economy of higher share prices, as well as last year's cuts in interest rates, financial conditions in America are now at their most accommodating since 1993 (see article), when the economy was crawling out of recession.
Georg Kofler, who is reported to own a 14% stake in Premiere, resigned as chief executive of Premiere in August last year.
The Czech, seeded 16th, has gone one better than his last-four achievement in Miami last year as he qualified for only his second Masters final.
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Republicans are still all at sea, as indeed they were in last year's presidential primaries.
What happens if, as in the French battle last year, there is an inconclusive outcome?
That is how I would like see the year ahead -- in my last year as Secretary-General.
Thomas Cook appointed Harriet Green as chief executive in May last year, tasking her with turning around the group's fortunes.
GDP, New Zealand's deficit is as big as those in Thailand before last year's economic crisis and in Mexico just before the peso crashed in December 1994.
City are in their first season in the Championship after finishing as runners-up in League One last year - and both managers and fans are enjoying the experience.
Some 80% of the 11.1m illegal immigrants in America as of last year are from Latin America, and 60% are from Mexico alone, according to the Pew Hispanic Centre.
Kinsella collects revenues in U.S. dollars but pays expenses in the local currency--a difficult equation when the dollar drops 5% against the Philippines peso, as it has in the last year.
Considered by many a bank with real growth potential, the bank has been active in acquisitions over the last year as they have participated in a couple of deals with distressed banks using FDIC-assistance.
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