While sales of smartphones and tablets exploded, the market as a whole actually contracted by 1% in 2012.
It turned out that the economy contracted by an average of 1 percent per year.
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Ferguson was contracted by Kabul Bank to perform the audit, as required by Afghan banking law.
The economy contracted by 2.3% in 2009, 3.5% in 2010, and 6.0% in 2011.
But the economy contracted by a worse-than-expected 0.3 percent in the last three months of 2012.
As such, total private wealth in the Old World actually contracted by .9% last year.
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However, in the U.K., economic growth contracted by 0.3% in the fourth quarter of last year.
Hong Kong's economy contracted by a worse-than-expected 2.8% in the year to the first quarter.
The virus is passed from dog to dog and can be contracted by contaminated dog faecal matter.
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With repayments also up, the amount of loans outstanding actually contracted by half a percent in February.
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Although wood, paper publishing and printing grew over the quarter it contracted by 12.9% over the year.
In 2009, however, Dr Soghoian was contracted by the FTC to provide lawyer-to-geek translation for its staff.
This prevents patients from paying the delta between the amount charged and the amount contracted by an insurer.
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Domestic demand had fallen by 0.2%, with consumer spending flat, while investment contracted by 1.3% quarter on quarter.
Figures last week confirmed that the UK economy contracted by 0.2% in the fourth quarter of last year.
That is not bad, considering that the euro zone contracted by 0.2% in the same time period.
Rig operator Transocean and oilfield services provide Halliburton were contracted by BP to develop the well.
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The industrial core is being battered by the Asian crisis: the state's exports contracted by 8.3% last year.
Spending contracted by 3.1 percent in 2011 and yet GDP climbed 1.8 percent.
The economy contracted by 1.37% last year, the second-worst annual decline since 1970.
Although the price has fallen, the volume contracted by Ukraine has gone up.
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China's exports contracted by 17.5% year-on-year in January--the steepest fall in 13 years and the third successive month of contraction.
Continuing concerns about the UK economy, which contracted by 0.3% in the final quarter of 2012, have also hit sterling.
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For one, says Mr. Peiris, H7N9 appears to be more easily contracted by humans when they are exposed to diseased birds.
The economies of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) contracted by 0.2% in the last three months of 2012.
In contrast during the Great Recession year of 2009, RGDP contracted by 3.07% and produced assets declined by 7.3% of GDP.
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We lost more than 8 million jobs and GDP contracted by almost 5 percent as a result of the Great Recession.
It is due in Cuban waters by the end of the year, contracted by Spain's Repsol to drill an exploratory well.
Texan construction employment has contracted by 2.3% since the end of the recession, along with manufacturing (a 1.8% decline) and information (-8.4%).
England internationals are contracted by the top clubs rather than by the central union as in countries like New Zealand and Ireland.
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