Service-based business owners like Hariprashad noted that business has been worse for the last two tax seasons with more people on unemployment for the 2010 tax year and many not even qualifying to file for the 2011 tax year.
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Having been stagnant for half a decade, sales have fallen dramatically this year for many brands.
Living with an open heart can be a path to rewarding holidays for many people this year, even if budgets tighten and troubles mount.
As companies begin unveiling their workplace benefits for next year many employees are learning they will have to dig even deeper into their pockets for health coverage.
All told, six to eight plants in Europe and North America will make as many as 1.4 million Epsilon cars a year for as many as seven brands in 13 body styles.
While 2010 was a great year for BDC investors, many are looking ahead to next year wondering if the upward trends will continue.
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It has been a rough year for many companies testing new Alzheimer's disease drugs.
Yet such sums must be spent each year for many years before oil production reaches the desired level.
Finally, business slows down a little (just a little) at the end of the year for many tax professionals.
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Scoble, a well-known blogger for many years, surprised many in the past year by shifting focus from his blog to social media.
That was an inauspicious year for many investment banks, particularly Merrill Lynch.
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As the state's school districts prepare their budgets for next year, many are either making plans to cut or already have reduced expenses.
Power lines and utility wires are virtually impossible to see from the air and account for many helicopter crashes each year when a pilot inadvertently flies into them.
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Given that modest recovery for some of the worst-hit economies is already in view for next year, many investors are now worrying that any corporate clean-up, no matter how well-intentioned at the start, could lose momentum.
"Transport and industrial emissions generate smog that destroys sensitive tissues (in people and animals), as well as producing fine carcinogenic particles that reduce lung function, and are ultimately responsible for many untimely deaths each year, " Manins wrote in the report.
Yet how many people do you know who tell you this is the most trying time of the year for them, many from broken homes that should never have been broken?
Many analysts have started to raise their estimates for how many iPads will be sold this year from 20 million to 30 million.
The 83-year-old Walters has broken many barriers for women over her nearly 50-year-career in television.
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For many, 2010 was the year when job searching became a science of its own.
So far in 2013, stocks already are trading at levels above many predictions for the full year.
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The key problem is that when you enter "00" for the year 2000, many computers get confused.
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Cross-country tours keep Barenaked Ladies lead vocalist Steven Page on the road for many months out of the year.
The rare earth stocks became the focus for many investors beginning late last year, although most of these stocks had been on a tear for some time.
Stores are still fairly full of merchandise and rock bottom prices are likely to remain or go even lower to clear out inventories before the Jan. 31 fiscal year end for many retailers.
And I know many people approach the holidays in the same way in their own lives, and that at this time of year for so many people, they are looking for opportunities to give thanks and to give back.
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The leader of the U.S. women's team is the soon-to-be-ubiquitous Missy Franklin, a 17-year-old from Colorado who could arrive back at high school for her senior year bedecked in as many as seven medals.
Retail analysts like Experian's Jonathan De Mello say this gloomy picture will persist for at least the next year - which means many shops are likely to stay empty for a long time to come.
Buffett, who had lived in San Francisco for many years, had been under treatment for cancer earlier this year, friends of the family said.
Mr Soutar, who is also an honorary senior lecturer at Glasgow University, said patients were so desperate for surgery that many were willing to forsake the next year's holiday to pay for treatment.
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