It also marks the beginning of a year in the spotlight for African football, with South Africa set to become the continent's first country to host the FIFA World Cup in June.
But this may be just the beginning of a brighter year for the North Carolina bank.
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If you want to switch to an MSA plan, do so at the beginning of a calendar year.
Bizarrely, if a company falls below the target at the beginning of a plan year, it has to immediately start pouring in more money to get to 100%, instead of moving up in increments until 2011.
On January 3rd, the first trading day of 2012, we got that big break out of the wedge, perhaps (as we talked about on our blog beforehand) due to new fund inflows at the beginning of a new year.
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It was a major blow which could be the beginning of the end of a 40 year old guerilla movement known as The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
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The drop in Thorntons' share price following the release of its trading results follows a more than quadrupling of its share price since the beginning of last year on rising hopes of a turnaround.
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The handover ceremony in Delhi, featuring a cast of 346 Scots, will mark the beginning of a four-year journey that will culminate in Glasgow hosting the biggest sporting event ever to take place on Scottish soil in 2014.
But the subsequent cyclical bear market turned out to be the beginning of a 17-year sideways secular bear market.
The beginning of a new calendar year is a good time for every manager to take stock and think about what you would do if you were starting fresh.
The FDA is at the beginning of a ten-year campaign to eliminate salmonella in eggs, and while experts acknowledge pasteurization is one way to do it, they also suggest cleaner processing as an alternative.
"This is not the end of anything, but rather the beginning of a two-year mission to pass new gun safety laws, protect children from toxic chemicals, and create more opportunities for working families in New Jersey, " Lautenberg said in a statement.
Now for the downside, at least for Davidson's company: The FDA is at the beginning of a ten-year campaign to eliminate salmonella in eggs, and though experts acknowledge that pasteurization is one way to do it, they suggest cleaner processing as an alternative.
The number of refugees leaving the country has increased from 1, 000 a day at the beginning of the year to more than 8, 000 a day.
And one of the things we're very proud of is the fact that we had a 6 percent contraction of the economy at the beginning of last year -- this past quarter we had a 6 percent increase in the growth of the economy.
The other shortcoming: If an employee leaves a company at the beginning of the year, he or she can get a windfall.
Republicans gave me this list the beginning of this year as a priority, something that they thought they could do.
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This hypothetical concern became more of a real worry at the beginning of this year when Russia did briefly cut supplies to Ukraine and Georgia.
Also since the beginning of the year, a subcommittee of your Board has given a great deal of time to selecting and appointing the new Chief Executive of the NAPF.
Between an aircraft that is at the end of a 40-year evolution and one at the beginning of what is likely to be a similarly long career, there is no contest.
To get around the obvious challenge of longevity for a show about a character with a terminal disease, each season of the television series will represent a season of the year, beginning with summer.
Malaysia was selected as member of the committee for a period of four years beginning next year, together with eight other new members namely Algeria, Colombia, Germany, Japan, India, Serbia, Senegal and Qatar.
The number of cattle on Canadian farms rose from 13.5m at the start of 2003, to 14.7m a year later and to 15.1m at the beginning of this year.
Despite a 31% drop since the beginning of the year, it still may be premature to call a bottom for the Nasdaq Composite.
The beginning of this year has seen a flurry of big international transactions.
The flood of job loss we saw at the beginning of this year slowed to a relative trickle last month.
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At the beginning of this year I made a series of journeys from London to Lancashire - a short journey on the West Coast lines but a million miles from my day job.
Continuous rainfalls had pounded parts of Xianning in Hubei beginning late Thursday, breaking a 200-year record of a massive 11.8 inches of rain in just four hours, leading to flooding.
As if all that fiscal uncertainty were not enough, on March 1 the sequestration provisions of the Budget Control Act that were delayed by a bipartisan agreement at the beginning of the year are supposed to trigger.
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Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, who put the risks of a recession at about 30% at the beginning of the year, has said more recently that the steep housing slump and financial market turmoil in August have pushed that chance up, although the risk still remained below 50%.
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