She wants parental leave when a baby is born to be reformed along mainly Nordic lines: ring-fencing half a year off for mothers and another half-year for fathers, on a use-it-or-lose-it basis.
The trade deficit for the first FY half was JPY 3.2 trillion (USD 41 billion), the largest deficit ever for a half year.
At the start of World War II, after war was declared, very little happened for half a year.
For the half year the deficit was JPY 1.5 trillion, up 78.6% YoY.
He was in a coma for two weeks, the hospital for two months and a rehabilitation center for half a year.
Even Cathay Pacific, Hong Kong's unofficial flag carrier, has reported robust results for the half year to the end of June.
Bernd Hieber manages a Mexican restaurant in the southern city of Stuttgart, which has had a ban in place for half a year now.
The sea around northern Sakhalin, in which the project's offshore drilling rigs stand, freezes for half the year and is home to a rare whale.
Snow blankets the farms for half the year.
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That's because as the Earth moves around the Sun, it is moving into a stationary field of dark matter - and for half the year it will be moving against the tide of dark matter - just like driving into the rain.
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In the Hasnabad area, where 750 Chowduli families live on the edge of ponds and canals, 40% of students don't show up to elementary school for half the year, teachers say, when their parents travel to work in brick kilns several miles away.
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In order to get people to farm, thus providing local food (you know, local is good, right?), in a place which is snow and ice for half the year it is necessary to put up huge trade barriers to food coming in from places with more grass and more cows.
The immediate concern for Asian investors is how profit figures will pan out as the region's companies start to release their year-end figures for June (or half-year results for firms whose fiscal year ends in December).
Beijing slashed export quotas on rare earths by 72% for the second half of this year after cutting them for the first half as well.
Many forecasts for the second half of the year call for more of the same.
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Joe was 30 years old and had worked at the company for about half a year.
So for the next half year to a year, the iPad looks to have an open runway.
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On his return to Pakistan in 1993, he is arrested and jailed for about half a year on murder and sedition charges.
In the rainy season, which can last for over half the year, getting from one side of town to the other, let alone elsewhere in the state, can become impossible.
Creative developer ZodTTD tried to bring the magic of Playstation to phones before it was ever officially announced, and his app, PSX4Droid had been on the Android market for almost half a year.
The survey of 100 businesses found that 37 percent are meeting year-2000-related sales and revenue projections and just 12 percent say that they have all of the business they can take on for the next half year.
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Wang added that ahead of the full launch of TD-LTE, his company will be initiating user trials for TD-LTE data devices and phones throughout 2013 -- the first half of the year for the former, and the second half for the latter.
The problem with both viewpoints is that the actual pace of economic expansion for the second half of the year, and for 2011, is uncertain.
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And if we think we're going to send them there for a year-and-a-half and then bring them back, and then send another group there for a year-and-a-half and bring them back, Washington will find another way to spend that money.
"We are disappointed with the performance in our Healthcare Supply Chain Services-Pharmaceutical segment, but have a positive outlook for the second half of the fiscal year for the company, " R.
Yet rumors have been that the company is talking to its advisors since the end of the Chinese New Year on a possible IPO for the second half of this year.
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In fact, small loan shops have always prospered through a combination of hard work and hard hearts, extracting annual interest rates typically over 400 percent and putting borrowers in debt for more than half the year, as unpaid loans roll over and accumulate additional interest, according to the Center for Responsible Lending, one of the many critics of the industry.
It took so long for electronic ink screens to finally hit the market we feel a bit silly getting impatient for the next-generation, but the Kindle has been on the market for a year and a half now, Sony Reader models for twice that long, and still we're dealing with the same crummy 7:1 contrast ratio, 16 shade grayscale, and .74 second refresh rate.
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Australia's 76 senators are elected through a proportional system in the country's eight states and territories for a six-year term (half running for election every three years).
Altobelli would only manage the Orioles for another year and a half, one of the shortest tenures, ever for a championship winning manager.
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