They won their last three games, and finished up just one point adrift of Carlisle and Swansea...it was that close.
Per Mr. Forbes' response that it was intended to be humorous...well, I didn't think it was particularly funny and I seriously doubt that many people did.
As you know, I studied economics in the U.S. It was in the U.S. that Arthur Laffer first sketched the curve that bears his name.
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If we take example of the U.S., it was pay-TV that expanded first followed by Internet video surge.
In the aftermath of the recent financial downturn, it was the U.S. that was the first to rescue and stress test its banks.
It seemed to provide a focus on long-term investment and management techniques that U.S. corporations could not match and from which it was thought that U.S. management needed to learn if they were going to survive.
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High salaries as a marketing strategy worked in the U.S., and it was hoped that this would be a good marketing ploy in China as well.
U.S. officials said it was likely that a number of Venezuelan diplomats would be asked to leave the U.S. in the coming days.
Oh, by the way, almost forgot ... it was Notre Dame on the business end of that 42-14 drubbing Alabama put on.
Effort? (Laughter.) Some of you have had that conversation. (Laughter.) And it was pretty jolting hearing my mother say that.
He noted that at one time the U.S. was mostly Protestant but that today it is only about half Protestant.
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"I bought 1, 000 shares at 12:50 p.m. on that date well after it was widely reported in the media that morning, " Mr. Brubaker says.
Last week investors fast-concluded from the crumbs falling from the table at the central bank that it was more concerned about U.S. and European debt crisis that could yet end in a tailspin than it was about domestic inflation.
"The government of Ecuador regrets the involuntary overflight... and stresses that it was a completely accidental event of no significant import or duration, " a statement said.
The quality of the work was there, the research...the access that they got...it was fantastically done.
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You can hear the struggle, and also the glory, of being a musician in L.A. Our music was never negative, but it had that strong urge.
In 2008, his first Olympics as head coach, Team USA was nicknamed the Redeem Team, and the U.S. team in 2012 was so loaded that it earned comparisons to the 1992 Dream Team.
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The cataclysmic talk surrounding European debt sounds a whole lot like what was going around in the U.S. in 2009 when it was fashionable to say that nationalization was the only answer for Bank of America, Citigroup et al. While you could argue that massive Fed loans amounted to de facto nationalization, it seems the plan worked and the banks are solvent.
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The downfall in Ranbaxy's stock price was attributed to the U.S. ban of 30 Ranbaxy drugs after it was discovered that two of its factories didn't meet the U.S. Food and Drug Administration standards.
At first ... it's radical and it's everything that you thought it was going to be ... and then it's not.
And the BBC is reporting that the U.S. government told the British government that it was going to announce substantial increase in a U.S. deployment in Afghanistan.
Thursday, when the Dow Jones industrial average dropped 311 points, Nasdaq reported record consolidated trading volume of 3.3 billion, out of what it calculated was 10.9 billion shares traded that day.
But since they happened to come up with it and since it was an important subject, we went over, shared it with George and people at the CIA. My impression was it was pretty well received, and that was that.
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It's what Saddam called his 2003 war with the U.S., but it was soon applied to the looting and lawlessness that erupted after Baghdad fell.
Neil Diamond's songwriting career began like so many others -- he was trying to impress a girl. (Laughter.) The difference was that it worked and he went on to marry the girl.
The core message was that Avis, because it was No. 2, worked that much harder to earn its business, with the implication being that the No. 1 market leader (Hertz) just might be a little lazy and complacent, and not care for each customer as much as Avis.
Mr. Alterman says it was the music of Mr. Person that first made him fall in love with jazz.
' So they dragged me, and I walk in and I thought, 'My goodness, she's kind of cute' ... something propelled me onto that stage, and I think it was more than whiskey.
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Mayo and his colleagues stumbled upon the then startling truth that it was not their dimming or brightening of lights in the workplace that increased productivity. (They both did.) Rather, it was the mere fact that the workers felt they were, however briefly, the focus of serious attention that made them produce more.
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