Bahrain is one of several Arab countries to have experienced pro-democracy demonstrations since the fall of long-time Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in January.
But with an improving global jobs market, many schools are now seeing a fall in full-time MBA applications.
Wales saw the biggest fall in part-time students from the UK (down 9%).
If we see the same fall-off this time around, the youth demo will likely lose the kingmaker status it held in 2008.
He added that the fall in part-time study and in mature students taking degrees was of "real concern for individuals, organisations and our society and economy".
His team's losing streak is their worst since 1988 and has seen them fall to an all-time low Test ranking of fifth.
We boomers, on the other hand, have become more individual, more deep, more multi-faceted, and far broader than our Gen-X or -Y competition as a result of our decades-long fall through time and space.
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He has tripled spending on new-product development and is putting the brand on prime-time TV this fall for the first time in three years.
At Rubbermaid he has tripled spending on new-product development and is putting the brand on prime-time TV this fall for the first time in three years.
Instead, anticipation by the markets of Mr Abe's elections, and the resulting flood of newly-created yen from the central bank's change of attitude, has seen the yen fall steadily in recent months from all-time highs against the dollar and other major currencies, helping provide some relief to the country's beleaguered exporters.
The bank estimated there were about 7, 500 first-time buyers in Scotland in the first half of 2011 - a fall of 15% from the same period in 2010.
For college and university students, fall typically marks the back-to-school time of returning to campuses, classrooms and colleagues.
"So we thought we just about got the right time to start tracing the fall-out from that, " he told BBC News Online.
There has been a 62, 000 fall in the number of people in part-time jobs, to just over eight million, with a 60, 000 increase in full-time employment, to 21.6 million.
The number of part-time workers has also continued to fall, reinforcing the picture of a tight labour market.
Without accurate, real-time translation, the Internet will fall short of its potential to be the first universal communications medium.
The maker of Tylenol, prescription drugs and medical devices saw profits fall by almost 11 percent, but excluding one-time charges, it beat Wall Street expectations.
And the time-honoured blind date could soon fall out of fashion, if the report's conclusions are correct.
This fall, among the more than two dozen new prime-time shows offered by over-the-air TV, there's not much about which to get really excited.
Either way, it's quite a fall from grace for Tebow, who was a two-time national champion with Florida, and whose No. 15 Broncos jersey ranked second in national sales to Green Bay's Aaron Rodgers in 2011.
The Consumer Electronics Association has already slashed its projection for fourth-quarter sales--it will be flat from last year--even as tech tracker iSuppli predicts sales of flat-panel televisions in 2009 will fall for the first time on record.
Either way, it's quite a fall from grace for Tebow, who was a two-time national champion with the University of Florida, and whose No. 15 Broncos jersey ranked second in national sales to Green Bay's Aaron Rodgers in 2011.
That share was down just 0.1 percentage points from November - a much smaller fall than usually occurs as this time of the year, when more shoppers typically head for the High Street for their Christmas purchases and for the Boxing Day sales.
In general, economic boom-and-bust cycles have become increasingly shorter over the last 30 years, and with the prevalence today of real-time information, instant trades, and inextricably-linked international markets, this bubble will rise and fall more quickly and under greater scrutiny from investors, regulators and consumers.
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Others fall in briefly because of a sudden windfall or the one-time sale of an asset.
Gold prices did fall below their 200-day moving average Wednesday for the first time since 2009.
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Gold prices did fall below their 200-day moving average today for the first time since 2009.
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The now legendary fall-out between former Disney boss Michael Eisner and one-time protege Jeffrey Katzenberg garnered headlines and lawyer.
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What would bring first- time buyers back into the market is a fall in house prices, not a policy that seems certain to drive prices higher.
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