Strangely, a Unicom spokesperson is saying that the agreement with Apple to actually sell these isn't finalized, so if they're going to wrap up the paperwork, get the cash from point A to point B, pump out a few million localized handsets, and get 'em on shelves in time for Fall, time is definitely of the essence.
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And although other holidays, like Chanukah and Kwanza, fall around this time of year, Christmas is the heavy hitter when it comes to spending.
Stepping back from the nuclear precipice, from the bleak time of fall out shelters and air raid drills.
The launch of the fall TV season used to be a time of great expectations.
The caps are supposed to fall over time with the price of the carbon credits, therefore rising due to scarcity levels.
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.
If an election were to be held on 3 May, parliament could be dissolved within weeks and the Bill would probably fall because of lack of time.
If you want to renew your faith in movies, you must remember this: Fall is spring, a time of hope and blossoming when the poundingly ponderous productions of summer give way to films that might actually lift our spirits while engaging our attention.
The number of part-time workers has also continued to fall, reinforcing the picture of a tight labour market.
Oscar hopefuls tend to fall into two camps at this time of year.
Suffers fall asleep anywhere, at any time of day, without warning.
Venice's fall, though, was the time of its greatest opulence.
By the time ENIAC was turned off for the last time, in the fall of 1955, its creators had a new, faster, and far more flexible computer, UNIVAC, up and running.
If not reversed, these developments, together with a pace of growth that is likely to fall short of potential for a time, should lead inflation to moderate later this year and next year.
Meanwhile, since the Basque Nationalists are no longer co-operating with Herri Batasuna in the Basque parliament, they are now a minority government which could, at any time, fall to a vote of no confidence.
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.
"We've gone through those data to see if we can see any influence of gravity on the positions at which they annihilate - looking for atoms to fall for the short amount of time they exist before they hit the wall, " he told BBC News.
Anne launched Blade in the fall of 2007, knowing that she had 100% of her time and energy to commit to building her business.
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But we rank it third among the three Park City resorts for its abundance of time-wasting run-outs, lack of continuous fall lines and, for Utah, something of a crowd problem.
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Russia and Georgia fought a five-day war in August 2008 over the breakaway Georgian province of South Ossetia -- the first time Russia sent troops abroad to fight since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Limited in scope and time, they do not fall foul of Germany's constitutional constraints.
One tiny bacterium getting into the wrong person at the wrong time could bring about the fall of an empire.
For instance, if cars become much safer because of increased reaction time of computers, the safety benefits of big hulking SUVs will fall drastically.
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Naturally, the governor did not spend a lot of time on these suggestions - which he said would naturally fall in the realm of fiscal policy.
The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act gave the Securities and Exchange Commission the authority to suspend the mark-to-market rules, which went into effect in the fall of 2007, just in time for the credit crisis.
As more people use the currency, demand for Bitcoins will grow beyond the finite supply and force up the value of each one, which will force the prices of goods to fall over time.
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From there he joined the Foreign Office, and made a distinguished contribution in posts held in Washington, DC, The Hague, Cairo (where he was involved in property negotiations arising from the Suez crisis), Tunis, Brussels and Vientiane (around the time of Saigon's fall to the North Vietnamese).
Percentage of students who began their studies in fall 2001 and transferred out within 150% of "normal time" for completion of their program.
In the fall of 1993, at the peak of his athletic abilities, three-time NBA finals MVP Michael Jordan quit the Chicago Bulls to join a minor league baseball farm team in Birmingham, Alabama.
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Without accurate, real-time translation, the Internet will fall short of its potential to be the first universal communications medium.
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