As the year ended, UN Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi shuttled between Damascus and Moscow, and there was a trip to the Russian capital by Syria's Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad.
The new year will begin rather as the old one ended, with a Merkel-Sarkozy meeting, on January 9th, to prepare the way for yet another EU summit on January 30th.
Per-store inventory (including merchandise sitting at its warehouses) was 10% lower in the fiscal year ended Jan. 30, 2010 than the prior year, even as same store sales at the combined T.
However, for the Chinese year period it was not nearly as good it began the Chinese year at 296.9 and ended it at 325.8, for just a 9.7% gain.
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Stocks were tumbling last fall as the new school year began, but at Harvard University, it was as if the boom had never ended.
The race had been promoted as the Texas 500 after the track's deal with Samsung ended last year.
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The 34-year-old, who saw his 281-week spell as world number one ended by England's Lee Westwood last month, triumphed in the event last year before problems in his personal life forced him to take a four-month break from the game.
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Mischel is particularly excited by the example of the substantial subset of people who failed the marshmallow task as four-year-olds but ended up becoming high-delaying adults.
In a 25 year Diet career as a member of the LDP that ended in 1995, he held cabinet posts and a popular, if consistently controversial figure due to his ultra-nationalist and occasionally anti-American views.
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Not since 1982, however, has the Nikkei 225 stockmarket index ended March as low as it did this year.
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Spurs manager Harry Redknapp this month admitted that he rated Brown, who ended the season as the SPFA Players' Player of the Year.
Messi ended the year with 91 goals to his name as he beat the previous record mark of goals scored in a calendar year -- the 85 converted by Germany's Gerd Muller in 1972.
Manager Sir Alex Ferguson's hopes of repeating last year's triumph against Chelsea barely got off the ground as they ended well beaten by a Barcelona side inspired by the genius of Argentine superstar Lionel Messi.
His exit was a six-year drama that ended in 2000 with the anointing of Jeffrey Immelt as his successor.
The carrier's profit for the six months ended Dec. 31 nearly doubled from a year earlier as compensation payments from Boeing Co.
Yet it remains a deeply divisive issue - as Russian MPs found the first time it was debated in parliament last year, when the discussions ended in a punch-up between opposing deputies.
Rangers, who ended Celtic's three-year reign as Scottish champions when they clinched the title last season, are away to their Glasgow rivals in a return to the traditional Old Firm New Year fixture on 2 January.
As 1995 ended, officials announced that the retail price index rose 14.8% for the year, against a 15% target and down from 21.7% in 1994.
Toyota Motor rose 5% after the auto maker raised its full-year earnings target late Tuesday, even as it posted a decline in net profit for the quarter ended in December.
How else could they have ended up with virtually the same level of compensation in 2010 as they saw in their peak year of 2007?
It seems to have worked--Starbucks is now regarded as a thriving outlet for CDs, having reportedly sold some 3.5 million of them in the fiscal year ended September 30, 2005.
Other divisions paled in comparison to the success of investment banking, as trading commissions rose slightly and principal transactions actually declined 38% from the three month period a year ago (ended June 30, 2009).
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The first match of the season it may have been but this could already prove to be a huge victory for the team who ended up nine points behind Stoke three months ago as they finished 15th in their first year back in the top flight.
The 1-0 defeat in Montenegro last month ended John Toshack's six-year reign as manager and Brian Flynn, who has impressed in charge of Wales Under-21s, was asked to oversee the senior side.
On Thursday the legendary iPhone hacker Comex, who I identified last year as 20-year old Brown University student Nicholas Allegra, wrote on Twitter that after a year as an intern for the company whose products he once expertly deconstructed, his time at Apple has abruptly ended.
Kathy Matsui of Goldman Sachs Japan, interviewed in the December 24 Nihon Keizai Shimbun, offers a scenario of a dip in the TOPIX to some 700 early in the first quarter (it ended the year at 729), followed by a rise to 800 by yearend, as the market anticipates overall economic recovery in 2013.
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The victory ended a run of three consecutive defeats in 2009 as Wales found the net for the first time this year.
His sister, who Barthel identified as 16-year-old Madison Wallace, at one point went in after him and ended up falling into the surging water.
It was here, as CCTV images showed and as the 29-year-old admitted to the jury, an argument about the music broke out and the Liverpool captain ended up punching Mr McGee.
In Rajasthan, where the state government is generally held to have coped well with a five-year drought that only ended with this summer's monsoon, the BJP also won comfortably, as in Chhattisgarh.
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