Around 80 entrants, often in teams of two to four, vie for the title of Best Beef Roast in one of three divisions based on personal roasting experience -- first-year roasters in the Rare Division, one- to nine-year roasters in the Seasoned Division and 10-year veterans in the Well Done Division -- by using just the right combination of spices, herbs and sauces to wow the judges.
Imports grew around 2.5% in dollar terms in April year-on-year, recording their first increase in nine months.
The Knicks had a first- or second-year player finish a close contest nine times in 21 such games, or 42.8% of the time.
The first was that of nine-year-old Claire Roberts, who also died at the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children (RBHSC), five years earlier in 1996.
Despite being a career 45% shooter, Anthony had hit more than 40% of his shots in just three of his previous 10 games and is below 40% for the season for the first time in his nine-year career.
Martin burst onto the scene last season as an 18-year-old, scoring five goals in his first nine games for the club.
The 19-year-old, who has won nine tournaments already this year, broke Reynolds early in the first two sets.
Driven by the powerful "gift" she had first become aware of as a nine-year-old girl living in the lap of luxury, she chose to work as a nursery nurse and has worked with children ever since.
While in New York on Monday, Bruni-Sarkozy spoke with a small group of women at a reception and described how she balances pursuing her career while still handling her duties as first lady and mother to her nine-year-old son, Aurelien.
Including 20-year-old Smith, who has taken 11 wickets in nine first-class matches at a cost of 75 runs each, in the XI would represent a massive gamble by the home side.
Its investment-banking arm, which has grown rapidly over the past decade, still accounts for about three-tenths of its revenues (close to twenty billion dollars in the first nine months of this year) and more than two-thirds of its net profits (upward of six billion dollars in the same period).
At Goldman, fixed-income trading revenue fell 37% in the first nine months of 2011 compared to a year earlier, while investment-banking revenue rose 6%.
Buck drove in four runs and has a team-high nine RBIs in his first year with the Mets.
Buck has a team-high nine RBIs in his first year with the Mets.
According to the Consumer Electronics Association, more than 1.5 million digital televisions were sold in the first nine months of the year--83% more than the same period last year.
Grant Balfour got the final out for his fourth save this season and 22nd in a row since blowing one on April 29, 2012, securing Oakland's first nine-inning shutout of the year.
The 21-year-old hit a brilliant nine-under-par 63 in the first round, with seven birdies and an eagle.
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Ariya Jutanugarn, the Thai 17-year-old who led after the first two rounds, made five birdies on the back nine in a 66 to surge into a tie for third with Ilhee Lee, who closed with a career-best 67.
For the first time in the X Factor's nine-year history, the live finals were staged outside London.
The Goon Show, which also starred Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers and Michael Bentine, was first broadcast in 1949, and enjoyed a nine-year run.
In the first nine months of the year, T-Mobile lost 850, 000 contract customers.
Ralph Lauren said that as a result of better-than-expected profitability in the first nine months of the year, it now expects operating margin from continuing operations for fiscal 2013 to be about .75 to 1 percent point above the year before.
Ralph Lauren said that as a result of better-than-expected profitability in the first nine months of the year, it now expects operating margin from continuing operations for fiscal 2013 to be about .75 to 1 percent point above the year-ago period.
Target sales are up only 3% through the first nine months of this year, while Wal-Mart ( WMT) reported a decline of 0.3% in the same period.
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In Atlanta he plans to begin construction early next year on a 270-unit condo tower in the first of up to nine new residential towers to be built on the largest blank slate in the city, a 20-acre parcel.
In his first year with the Yankees, Youkilis opened the season with a nine-game hitting streak and was batting .266 with two homers and seven RBIs in 64 at-bats before going on the DL. Yankees manager Joe Girardi said he will be careful to give them days off in an attempt to prevent them from wearing down.
Although the price rise generated a short-term rise in profits last summer, in the first nine months of this year profits fell by 95% from a year earlier as customers walked away, and as the company bore the cost of an aggressive international expansion.
The right-hander lasted only 2 2-3 innings in his first career start against Washington last year, allowing eight runs on nine hits with two walks.
Hindustan Lever's revenues grew by only 7% in the first nine months of last year, because of the aftereffects of the 1997-99 slowdown of India's economy.
But the results from nine of the 10 sites in the first three years of the 10-year project are positive, demonstrating, Sachs believes, what can be done for a modest amount of money per head.
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