K. Singh, chairman of the Railway Board, boasts of an even better performance in the first half of this year, with an increase of 18m tonnes.
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Elsewhere, spending on construction projects in the U.S. fell in January for the first time in half a year, an indication that the market for builders remains shaky.
The average period chief marketing officers hold a job jumped from 34.7 months to 42 months last year, an increase of more than half a year within the space of a year.
Customs data showed that China imported 9, 300 tonnes of polysilicon from the EU in the first half of the year, an increase of 30.8% from a year earlier.
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So for the next half year to a year, the iPad looks to have an open runway.
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My guess: Over a long period his strategy will be good for an incremental half a point a year.
The second half of the year should see an improvement in the margins in the absence of one time investments associated with the product launches and a higher price that is typically associated with a model upgrade.
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The chief executive of Centrica, Sam Laidlaw, says I am painting a misleading picture - that I failed to point out that British Gas's residential supply business had an unusually weak first half last year, and that profits were therefore returning to nearer the norm.
An estimated half-million guns a year go missing in the U.S. and end up in criminal hands.
The 28-year-old has agreed a two-and-a-half year deal and joins for an undisclosed fee, understood to be a free transfer.
After we lost the World Club Challenge the other year, he spent half an hour listening to my dad telling him how he was putting a ladder up to the loft.
Of course, the crowd must be fed: in an average year, nearly half a million roast chickens, a quarter million sausages, 45, 000 pig's knuckles, and over one hundred whole oxen, spit roasted on giant rotisseries, are consumed.
The administrators, some teachers, and an eleven-year-old half-American, half-Chinese pianist named Vanessa waited for Lang Lang.
Direct Line said Tuesday it was planning an IPO in the second half of this year, subject to market conditions.
An uncontested divorce now takes about half a year, she says.
Though the PC industry still remains in the doldrums, Intel looks optimistic about the situation and expects an improvement towards the second half of the year.
"We're looking for people of all ages - people who may be able to spare half an hour a week or a day a year, " said Ms Jackson.
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Penney filings are internal, since Vornado (Steven Ross) and Pershing Square (William Ackman) bought shares over a year and a half ago in an activist campaign that led to multiple seats on the Board.
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The results, announced Wednesday, are an improvement from the first half of the year, when cotton costs soared and the company was bearing costs to eliminate some of its businesses to focus on the most profitable ones.
Here's what hospital CEO Jim Dickson said in an NPR interview a year and a half ago.
Witness the 10% rise in total pay at America's investment banks last year, despite an awful second half.
Without a sales commission to deter trading, no-load investors hold their positions for an average of a year and a half.
The company also announced Thursday that its NuMark subsidiary plans to introduce an electronic cigarette during the second half of the year.
Former World Player of the Year Kaka capped an electrifying first half performance with the second on 36 minutes with a curling shot.
Half a year later, Silverman struck back in an Esquire article, calling McPherson a "D-girl, " industry slang for an attractive, but powerless, junior female executive.
The demo unit was sporting a glossy screen, but when it ships early in the second half of the year it'll be packing an anti-glare panel.
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"Japan has probably already started falling into an economic lull in the second half of the year, " said Yoshimasa Maruyama from Itochu Economic Research institute in Tokyo.
That I think anybody would admit that losing 16 million jobs over the course of a two-and-a-half year recession would have put us into an economic depression.
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