Third, the new U.S.-spec Passat can be had with a choice of three and only three engines, one of which, the base 2.5-liter in-line five-cylinder, is a hunk of lumber pulled from the ribs of an ancient Norse longboat.
Often the workers in an acquired mill were making base pay 2.5 times Nucor's rate.
The base houses 2, 000 soldiers of the Headquarters of the Nato Allied Rapid Reaction Corps for part of the year.
The company has grown by 1, 262% over the past five years and now has a customer base of 2.5 million users.
Clicker, which Lanzone and his staff of 37 call "TV Guide for the Internet Age, " now has more than 1 million TV episodes, movies and Web series in its database and a growing base of 2 million-plus monthly visitors.
In January, the customer base stood at 2.1 million, an increase of 11%.
The acquisition of Washington Mutual (WaMu) in September 2008 helped it increase its customer base while adding 2, 200 branches, 5, 000 ATMs and 12.6 million checking, savings, mortgage and credit card accounts.
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For example, the Conference Board in the November 2012 Global Outlook (see chart below) forecasted an annualized growth rate of 2.3% in its base case for the years 2013-208 and a further reduced annualized growth rate projection of 2.0% in its base case for the years 2019-2025, representing a distribution of roughly 18% of overall World output.
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Finally, it is more cost-effective in the long run to keep the B-2 industrial base open.
Last week, Celera announced it had delivered 1.2 billion base pairs of the humane genome sequence to its subscribers.
During the 17 quarters from 3Q2008 to 3Q2012, the Fed expanded the monetary base by 203.2%, and NGDP rose by 9.4%.
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Taking the same 40 racks, if pushed to 90 percent capacity on average, and upgrading the existing server base over the next 2 years to 1U servers would support 1, 520 physical servers.
Fiserv Inc. a leading financial technology services provider, pools the information assets from a base of more than 2, 000 banks to enable its small and medium sized bank clients to build more effective retention, growth and cross-sell strategies.
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Bielema will be paid a base salary of 3.2 million dollars a year for a guaranteed six years with incentives that can push his revenue to roughly 4 million per year.
That would seem to make it clearly taller than the famous Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro, which is about 30 meters tall, excluding its large base, and the 34.2-meter-high Cristo de la Concordia in Cochabamba, Bolivia.
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But at currently above 2% of the installed base already, something clearly is happening.
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Base salaries rose by just 3.2%, although that was above the median rise recorded by IDS this week for average pay settlements of 2.6% for private sector workers.
Before that, the largest three-year decline in the velocity of the monetary base ever observed was the 48.2% drop from 1930 to 1933, as the economy plunged into the pit of the Great Depression.
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The idea is to have base stations everywhere beaming Net connections at 2.4 megabits per second--faster than top cable modem speeds--so that people can be connected no matter if they are in the street, in a car or at a restaurant.
According to the Department of Defence, as many as 2, 900 jobs outside the base depend on this round-robin effect.
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But instead of solidifying his base in golf sandals, now carried in 2, 500 shops, Bathum is plunging into line extensions.
In February 2009, Newsweek announced a circulation rate base reduction at its domestic edition, from 2.6 million to 1.5 million, by January 2010.
However, home plate umpire Hunter Wendelstedt called the pitch a ball and Berkman went on to hit a double that would score Jorge Posada from first base and give the Yankees a 3-2 lead at a pivotal point in the game.
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He allowed his only run in the fourth, when one-out singles by Mark Kotsay and Yonder Alonso put runners on the corners, and Jedd Gyorko pulled a 1-2 changeup over the third-base bag for a double and his first big league RBI.
Pitching for the Brooklyn Dodgers in a National League playoff against the rival New York Giants, Branca, who had just come in to relieve starter Don Newcombe with two men on base and the Dodgers holding a 4-2 lead, served up a ninth-inning home run ball to Bobby Thomson.
On a positive note, the firm said digital local display and property revenues grew by 43.8% and 25.2%, albeit from a low base.
Over the last several years, the world has woken up to the enormous market potential of serving 2-3 billion people at the base of the economic pyramid.
The central bank, under its new governor Haruhiko Kuroda, has vowed to double the monetary base through purchases of government bonds to meet a 2 percent inflation target within the next two years.
Which is why the base Jaguar XF now comes powered by a seemingly modest 2.0-liter four-cylinder engine.
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