The month's figures also lay 1.9% below the 529, 000 housing starts in October 2009.
DuPont missed the consensus call for profit and revenue, cut its guidance and said it will lay off 1, 500 workers around the world.
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The rich oil fields of the Caspian Sea lay over 1, 800 miles to the west, while there were unstable neighbours less than a couple of miles to the south.
In 1991, the UK government amended the Veterinary Surgeons Act, thereby prohibiting the docking of dog's tails by lay persons from 1 July 1993.
CSFB, its investment-banking subsidiary, this week said it would lay off a further 1, 750 staff.
Last week, the board of Austin Independent School District declared a "financial exigency, " a move that will allow it to lay off more than 1, 000 teachers.
As well as wage cuts and 1, 000 lay-offs, the mayor needs big concessions from the unions, ranging from pensions and health-care reform to changes in restrictive work rules.
So far more than 1, 000 lay Anglo-Catholics and 80 priests dissatisfied with the direction the Church of England is taking over women bishops have left to join the Ordinariate set up by the Vatican in 2011 for former Anglicans.
The Swedish presidency, which took over from the Czech Republic on 1 July, will lay out its priorities for the next six months on Wednesday.
Almost 1, 000 people sat or lay on the ground outside a government sports building in Jiegu, some wrapping themselves with quilts they had taken from rubble, and others used their own tents, the Xinhua news agency reported.
The council areas showing the highest percentage increase over the year to February 2013 were Larne, 24.8%, probably reflecting the lay-offs at FG Wilson, Magherafelt, 16.1%, and Ards, 11.3%.
The largest chunk of lay-offs came from retail trade, which shed 28.1 thousand jobs.
And instead of hiring 1, 000 workers, they intended to close one of its older facilities and lay-off 135 temporary or contract workers along with 40 full-time employees.
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