Not so much because of all the social and technology shifts since then, but because that year is so close to the high-water mark of U.S. predominance as the only great power to come out of World War II more or less intact.
And he believes we need to do that again next year, because that assists those families in having -- giving them the ability to make ends meet and puts money back into the economy, which in turn sustains businesses and creates jobs.
We did not request nominations in 2003 because that was the year that we revamped OIRA's regulatory-analysis guidelines.
While it was a long-standing joke among tax and estate planners that 2010 would be a good year to die because there is no estate tax imposed in that year, in practice, this is less than certain.
The question of what comes next will be the one that counts this year because Republicans and Democrats know that agreeing on the numbers is the only work they absolutely must get done.
Jan Hatzius of Goldman Sachs expects America to grow at an annual pace of 1.5% for the remainder of the year, because that is how fast it has grown since the middle of last year if you ignore the effect of stock building.
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This is probably the first team I've felt like that about because last year even there were some guys were not all about winning.
We try to do simple things like not shifting people in the first two to three months of the year because that's when schools have exams.
On the anti-wolf side, the most moving testimony came from outfitters who had no business that year because the wolf drove away the elk and moose.
"Nobody wants a repeat of last year because that was a poor show, and deeply undermines the credibility of the commission, " observed the long-time commissioner for Monaco, Frederic Briand.
Lord Owen denies this is a cunning attempt to block the bill - arguing that because the parliamentary year will not end until well after Easter, there is plenty of time to have the debate he wants and then for the bill to reach the statute book.
Aside from the surprise profit and dividend cuts, the company also reported a net debt-to-equity ratio of 61%, double that of last year because of new loans, though Wu says much of that is for project financing.
And Hamilton also dismissed suggestions by motorsport boss Max Mosley that the title would be tainted this year because of the spy scandal that has embroiled McLaren.
"We're pretty confident that Darren will be Oakey's next opponent after that contest although it could be the new year because Darren has been told that he can't train for the next eight weeks".
And as you point out, there has been business that the Senate had to get done in September because of the fiscal year constraints, and that included not just FEMA funding but the CR in general, surface transportation extension, FAA extension.
But White House advisors pushed for two 50-cent a year increases because that would mirror the last increase.
That is because later this year, their respective publishing companies are expected to merge into a new company called Penguin Random House.
It might be easy to dismiss that because this time last year theaters were still raking it in from the highest grossing movie ever made: Avatar.
If 2008 resembles any recent political year, it's 1992, when roughly the same number of Americans thought the country was headed in the wrong direction --mainly because of the economic recession that year.
That said, Cornerstone's research indicates settlements will be bigger this year if only because the losses that plaintiff lawyers claim on behalf of investors will be higher.
The argument that extending the Bush cuts will increase entrepreneurial investment falls apart when you consider that few businesspeople are going to invest in hiring and expanding just because they got a tax break this year that may be revoked next year.
"Unfortunately, I will not be able to play the Barclays Dubai Tennis Championships this year because of the back injury that's been bothering me since the end of last season, " the 23-year-old said.
But safety campaigns kicked off in 2001 sharply dropped the number of lightning deaths each year, so that 30-year average consistently overestimates fatalities because it includes data from before the recent decline, Roeder said.
He knew about it because it had been serialized earlier that year in The New Yorker.
The U.N. decided to move Taylor's trial from Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown, to the Hague last year because of concerns that Taylor's presence would harm stability and security in the region.
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The Amplats news has some market watchers edgy because it was just last year that strikes in South Africa, much of it focused in the platinum-producing region of Rustenburg, caused production losses and pushed prices higher.
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People have more vivid memories of the colorful, Super Bowl Shuffling 1985 Bears (also 15-1 with a second-best all time standard deviation of 2.10), because that club was a one-year wonder that never got back to a Super Bowl.
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"We are extremely pleased to be able to make this announcement at the start of the new year because we believe that OLED will usher in a whole new era of home entertainment, " said Havis Kwon, President and CEO of LG's Home Entertainment Company.
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In a 2009 study, Ulrike Malmendier of the University of California, Berkeley, and UCLA's Geoff Tate found that companies performed poorly after their leaders were voted "CEO of the Year, " because of the distractions that came with the fame, like writing a book and hobnobbing at Davos.
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