Nordstrom is slashing prices by as much as 60%, in its first early-autumn sale in 40 years.
The 1% pay rise limit was put in place for two years in the Autumn statement, after a public sector pay freeze.
In particular, she highlighted the fact that the government significantly slowed down its deficit reduction plans last autumn by extending the plans by two years - beyond the next election.
In fact, it was the OBR's more pessimistic view of Britain's supply side that forced the chancellor to announce an extra two years' spending cuts in the Autumn Statement last November.
Of course, the chancellor then went on to add another two years to his deficit reduction plan in his Autumn Statement.
Yangzhou, where Marco Polo once served as a municipal official, has a history of 2, 500 years, dating back to the Spring and Autumn Period in China (771 to 403 BC) when it was called Guangling.
Fuel duty has proved the most controversial green tax in recent years, especially in the wake of the blockades in autumn 2000.
The 20-year-old forward broke into the Saints team two years ago and made his full debut for England in the autumn international against Australia.
It's no bad thing that we play them first - we've played them last in the past two years and it's been our best performance of the autumn.
Changes to GCSEs have just been brought in for students who started courses this autumn, again the main change being that most exams are taken after two years, instead of "in chunks" over the two years.
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Since their last autumn conference, the Lib Dems have suffered their worst English local elections for 30 years, losing nine councils and 747 councillors.
Smith had made his Scotland debut earlier that year in the Calcutta Cup match against England and was a first-choice for his country for eight years, winning the Five Nations in 1999 and leading them throughout the 2001 Autumn Internationals.
The results will inform the Scottish Government's Literacy Action Plan, due for publication in the autumn 2010, which will outline the next steps to further raise standards of literacy from early years through to adult learning.
The UN is planning to launch talks on the status of Kosovo this autumn, while Serbia - of which Kosovo is still nominally a part - will be celebrating five years since the fall of Slobodan Milosevic.
It said the revised offer did "not properly take into account the extra money coming into the sector" from 2008, when students in all three years will be paying the "top-up" fees to be introduced from this autumn.
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In the Autumn Statement, Mr Osborne announced that public sector pay rises would be capped at 1% for two years - after a current two-year freeze - and the rise in the state retirement age to 67 would be brought forward by eight years to 2026.
Only last autumn the government had agreed to extend the lives of some nuclear-power stations by an average of 12 years.
In the autumn of last year peace talks with part of the Palestinian leadership began again for the first time in seven years, though as this report went to press they were looking increasingly shaky.
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