Growth for 2012 as a whole came in at 2.2%, up from 1.8% in 2011, but still unusually slow compared with previous economic recoveries in the US following recessions in the post-War era.
Initially, as U.S. soldiers pushed into Baghdad neighborhoods they had not previously occupied, violence rose, and that spring more U.S. soldiers and marines died in combat than during any previous period of the war.
The work has travelled on three previous occasions - to Paris and Milan in the 1930s and for safekeeping during World War II - but this will be the first time it has left the Uffizi since 1945.
These men and women -- doctors, medics and nurses, many of them just 20 or 21 years old -- have saved the lives of numerous servicemen and women who in any previous war may have come home in flag-draped coffins.
As I said in the previous post, the top contributing factors are most likely Starcraft Brood War pros showing up to play SC2, and also the inclusion of League of Legends and its absolutely mammoth fanbase.
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The lowest level to which net private investment fell in any previous post-war recession was 4.3% of personal income in 1991.
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The United States recognised Angola only in 1993, after cold-shouldering its Russian-backed government for the previous 20 years during the Cold War.
Pentagon officials in previous, open hearings on the recommendations have warned against changes that could hurt the ability to get war-fighting intelligence to the battlefield.
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In fact, Obama is expected to avoid some of the accounting tactics of previous budgets, such as keeping war funding separate, which presented a skewed estimate of the administration's actual spending plans.
In this time of war, we gather here mindful that the generation serving today already deserves a place alongside previous generations for the courage they have shown and the sacrifices that they have made.
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But contrary to his previous film where the Holocaust played a leading role, in "The Tiger and the Snow, " the war in Iraq seems little more than a distant backdrop.
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