• Greece's debt figure shot up by 7.8% of GDP in 2010 when Eurostat, the EU's statistical agency, reclassified bus, railway and other public companies in the government accounts.

    ECONOMIST: Government accounting

  • Mr Belaid, a lawyer and secular political figure, was shot by a gunman as he left home for work.

    BBC: Tunisia PM Jebali pledges new government 'by next week'

  • Like contractors who get paid to rebuild homes and buildings, RV makers figure to get a shot in the arm, as new customers looking for temporary housing and a home-based escape route for the next disaster start lining up.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • By contrast, the quants created mathematical models to figure out which country had the best shot.

    FORBES: The Octopus That Beat Wall Street

  • There is a lovely post-credits shot as the Mme de Merteuil figure (Valmont's opposite number in cunning and deceit) pats her stomach bearing the now visible reward for her chicanery.

    ECONOMIST: Morals and scandal

  • Morrison was particularly impressive and was unlucky when the giant figure of Fabricio Coloccini managed to block his goalbound shot.

    BBC: West Brom 2-3 Newcastle

  • Your job is to figure out how everybody in the country gets a fair shot.

    FORBES: Mitt Romney v. Barack Obama: Go To Bed Early On Election Night

  • Your job is to figure out how everybody in the country has a fair shot.

    WHITEHOUSE: President Obama Holds a Press Conference

  • Shot in a blitz at Cannes, Toback had to figure out much of the film once he got home.

    NPR: Toback, Baldwin Eye Cannes Movie-Making Underbelly

  • Not until the e-mail software company he'd founded in 1990 shot from 3 employees to 45 in 1993 did Heller figure he had to get control of his money.

    FORBES: Investment Guide

  • Assuming that the figure was similar during the Cretaceous, it would be a long shot that the first fossil meteorite to turn up from 65m years ago was made of such a rock unless a huge extra supply of carbonaceous chondrite had suddenly arrived on the planet.

    ECONOMIST: Paleoforensic science

  • It just means that all machines that scan your body will display a generic stick figure body to TSA security agents rather than the X-ray nudie shot, seen at right.

    FORBES: TSA Abandons Rapiscan's Nude Body Scanners

  • Then, on Dec. 11, a lone gunman shot dead Moshe Nahari, a father of nine and well-known figure in Raida's Jewish community.

    WSJ: Secret Mission Rescues Yemen's Jews

  • However, a lack of a real killer pass or shot in the final third often had lone striker Rooney cutting a forlorn figure and it was Chelsea who forged the more clear-cut chances, particularly through Anelka.

    BBC: John Terry

  • Although they shot up 12.6% in the first quarter over last year's figure, the fear is that the Sars-linked downturn elsewhere will rebound on how much money makes it home.

    BBC: A rickshaw pedals through flooded streets

  • Other betting fodder: How often will beefy game analyst John Madden mention food? (Figure twice, say the odds.) How many times will the NBC cameras show a shot of Cardinal quarterback Kurt Warner's wife?

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • That figure dropped to 40% in men who had one nerve severed without a nerve graft, but shot back up to 60% of men who had one nerve severed and regrafted.

    FORBES: Some Nerve

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