The new nation stagnated until Meciar's government was tossed out in elections five year ago.
Little more than a year ago, five-year Japanese corporate bonds rated BB (ie, junk) by Moody's yielded 360bps more than government bonds, a level they had reached after investors had been reminded of borrowers' fragility by the bankruptcy of Mycal, a big retailer.
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Its games are now available in 17 languages compared to five languages a year ago.
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Entitled "School House Hype", the report reveals that the number of school shooting deaths across the United States was lower during the past school year than five years ago.
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Zynga has grown its mobile user base to 15 million daily active users, which is up five-fold from a year ago.
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Earnings growth has averaged 27% over the last five years, and a year ago PPD introduced the first and, to date, only dividend in the contract research industry.
Nepal gave up its 240-year old monarchy five years ago, but its dreams of the new republic including a new constitution remain in limbo as political parties failed to agree on a host of issues.
The low five-year interest rate, such an attractive idea five years ago, was about to expire, and spike.
There was a rising trend: 42 cases 10 years ago, 116 five years ago and 159 last year.
So, five months ago the 54-year-old owner of a small Baltimore auto insurance company started taking daily injections of growth hormone.
So, five months ago the 54-year-old owner of a small auto insurance company in Baltimore, Maryland, started taking daily injections of growth hormone.
And that is up 24% from a year ago, with five states taking the majority of that investment: Florida, California, Texas, Arizona, and New York.
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The office of Beauchamp Estates on the island of Mykonos is receiving three or four email inquiries per day, compared with about five or six per week a year ago, Roi Deldimou who runs the Greek office of Aylesford told Reuters.
The civilian death rate across the country, they reckon, is more than five times lower than it was a year ago.
Mr. DAVIDSON: I mean, they are very proud of the fact that they moved from 8 or 9 percent five years ago to 11 percent last year.
Bharti, India's biggest mobile-phone company, handed over most of its IT to IBM five years ago and repeated the trick last year with a new supermarket venture.
Investors are going international: A recent survey of American investors found that 40% plan to increase their exposure to international stocks over the next five years, up from 22% a year ago.
About 529, 000 leg stents were placed last year, up from 386, 000 five years ago.
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Fixed asset investment has expanded by more than 30% in the first five months of 2004, compared to a year-ago.
So far, the practice has fired a couple of families per year since it implemented the policy about five years ago.
The accident happened four years and 10 months ago and Greek law puts a five year limit on bringing cases to court.
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Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy, who saw Gross and met Cuban President Raul Castro a year ago, leads the group of five senators and two congressmen.
In addition to the Cal Eco, there are more than 20 adventure races scheduled for the U.S. next year, up from 2 or 3 five years ago.
Five years ago Pallat, an articulate 39-year-old former industry consultant who is quick with numbers, saw a huge opportunity in the business of brokering liability for workers' compensation coverage, which by law most companies in the country must buy.
The fact he's fought only four times since beating Ricky Hatton more than five years ago and has not fought in a year leads some in boxing to believe he may have as much trouble with ring rust as he has with Guerrero.
As part of a congressionally mandated drive to wean U.S. taxpayers from paper, the IRS plans to send out only 29.5 million paper tax packages this year--half the number it sent five years ago and just one for every 4.5 tax filers.
The initiative would have permitted Mugabe, who has ruled this land since the minority white government was forced out two decades ago, to serve two more five-year terms as president, to enjoy--legally--more personal power and to seize--without compensating for them--tracts of land owned by white farmers.
The same time last year, it was 86, 821, and five years ago it was 80, 534.
Despite the rally in most bourses over the past year, stocks are less expensive than they were five years ago.
Two years ago Ken Lay signed on for another five-year term as chairman.
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