And there is increasing indirect American investment in the island: many of the multinationals from Europe and Canada that have set up operations in Cuba since Mr Castro's opening to foreign investment a decade ago count American institutions among their shareholders.

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Yet none of the latter has led to prosecutions in the last decade (unless you count repeat offender Harold Nicholson, whose original 1997 sentence was extended eight years when he tried to resume spying by tasking his own son from his jail cell).

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Because the market was so high about a decade ago--dividend yields got down to about 1% and PE got up to almost 40 times--as I say in my book and as I said in the speech I gave at Princeton called "Don't Count On It, " if you think the stock market is going to give a positive return in the next decade, don't count on it.

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Howell is expected to receive a prison sentence of at least a decade after his plea to one count of committing bank and wire fraud.

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The government head count grew by 13% in the decade to 2009.

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The public-sector head count has grown by over a tenth in the past decade, and as many as 400, 000 jobs may have to go.

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In contrast, those who failed on each count had only a 4% chance of living to see their tenth decade.

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The 2010 Census count shows how the U.S. population has grown and shifted over the last decade.

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