The rituals are particularly important if the household has suffered a bereavement in the previous year.
As it happened, CFIUS had been racked by dissension in the previous year or so.
All eight Ivy League institutions saw larger returns in 2011 than in the previous year.
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In the previous year, the school's acceptance rate was only 1 out of every 30 seniors.
Pre-tax profits for 1998-99 were DKr1.63 billion, 27% lower than in the previous year.
The number of options granted in the previous year is not correlated with share buybacks.
Gold has been up every year since 2001 and has increased roughly 25% in the previous year.
According to government figures, tourist numbers for June 2001 were 30% higher than in the previous year.
But again, the high growth rates are because of low base effect witnessed in the previous year quarter.
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On emigration, the ONS said 41, 000 more people had left the UK in 2006 than in the previous year.
Soon after the launch, it emerged that Plymouth, Wisconsin, also ran a Positively Plymouth campaign in the previous year.
He thought he might get in the previous year in tandem with one of his former players, Curtis Martin.
The company lost 772 billion yen in the previous year, and expects to make 260 billion yen this year.
In other words, Chinese consumers ate about 42% more Oreo cookies during the survey period than in the previous year.
The third measure was the number of times that an individual's papers had actually been cited in the previous year.
The idea was to buy stocks that paid good dividends despite having share prices that had underperformed in the previous year.
That's a drop of 27.5% on the previous quarter and a 24.5% decrease on the same period in the previous year.
"We have had 526 fewer homicides in 2012 than in the previous year, " said Mr Perez Molina in his state-of-the-nation address.
About a year later, U.S. military leaders in Iraq announced that 15, 000 insurgents had been killed or captured in the previous year.
Pew found that nearly half of all Americans who have read a book in the previous year purchased their most recent book.
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Despite the rise in unemployment, the figure is still 8, 000 lower than it was at the same time in the previous year.
Gross domestic product rose 5.0%, compared with 6.2% in the previous year.
In fact, more businesses started last year than in the previous year.
It concluded that the median decline in their value compared with the set of grants made in the previous year was 20%.
The authority said 308 full time posts were expected to go, on top of 800 already cut in the previous year's savings.
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They complied, lending 95.3% more in 2009 than in the previous year.
Gross margin decreased to 33.4% vs 35.7% in the previous year quarter.
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In the first half of 2012 his commission launched 180 investigations into insider trading and malfeasance, 70% more than in the previous year.
Because the investment bank has performed worse than in the previous year - as is typical of the industry - those rewards may halve.
There were 149 incidents in the region in 2011-12, compared with seven in the previous year, a BBC Inside Out Freedom of Information request revealed.
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