• Nearly a year and a half after the uprisings against the 30 year rule of Hosni Mubarak, Egypt is struggling to find its footing.

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  • When the G20 finance ministers gather in Paris they face a stark fact: that nearly a year and a half since Greece received its first bailout, the crisis remains unresolved.

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  • Nearly a year and a half into the U.S. mortgage crisis, Congress has taken its most significant step in coming to the aid of beleaguered borrowers and propping up mortgage buyers Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac .

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  • Loos ("Gentlemen Prefer Blondes") wrote "Happy Birthday" as a starring vehicle for her friend, Helen Hayes, and Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein produced it on Broadway in 1946, where it ran for nearly a year and a half.

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  • We think that completing the funding for fiscal year 2011, a fiscal year that's nearly half over, should be a relatively easy task, and that the differences that separate us are not so great that we cannot find the common ground in a way that each side can feel that it accomplished something in getting it done.

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  • For Medicaid, in contrast, we spend nearly half a trillion dollars every year to provide the poor with worse care than is gained by the uninsured.

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  • One such celebrity is Britney Spears, who spends nearly half a million dollars a year for security, according to accounting information filed with the Los Angeles Superior Court by Spears' father, Jamie Spears, who manages her estate.

    CNN: Celebs shell out big bucks for security

  • That distance nearly doubles just half a Pluto-year later, to 50 AU in 2123.

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  • Ford sold nearly half a million Ford Explorers last year, and recent recall campaign on the new 2002 Explorer shows just how high the stakes are.

    BBC: Cars on show at New York

  • It is one of the top selling novels of the 20th century, still selling nearly a half million copies every year and currently in the top 100 books on Amazon.com more than fifty years after its original release.

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  • PayPal Mobile announced a 516% increase in global mobile payment volume over last year, and eBay Mobile reported US purchases were nearly two and a half times what they were last year.

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  • Every year, nearly half a million women lose their lives to this terrible, treatable, and often preventable, disease.

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  • That may not seem much by Western standards, but it is more than what nearly half of their compatriots earn in a year.

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  • 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.

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  • But Frank Schleck of Luxembourg, who finished third overall last year, lost nearly half a minute to Wiggins, coming home 135th at 38 seconds behind teammate Cancellara.

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  • Just a year and a half into Gillett's reign RPM nearly sank amid the global financial crisis, the troubles of U.S. car manufacturers who pay for much of the sport and Gillett's debt problems.

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  • The year-and-a-half-old beasts, nearly as big as the petite 56-year-old, paw raw meat onto her tasseled loafer.

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  • Remember the debate a year ago about how nearly half of American households pay no income tax?

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  • Facebook Funneled Nearly Half a Billion Pounds Into the Cayman Islands Last Year.

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  • The report noted that so-called "mega-lawsuits" had nearly tripled in the first half of the year as a result of the credit crisis and extreme market volatility.

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  • To date it accounts for nearly half of the 16m tablets sold last year, reigniting a fading market for such devices.

    BBC: CES 2011: Tablets do battle at Las Vegas gadget show

  • 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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  • Rising home-energy bills, which have jumped by nearly 15% so far this year, will add almost half a percentage point to consumer-price inflation in February.

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  • Nearly half a million Americans die from smoking--related illnesses each year, the biggest reversible mortality statistic in the Western world, yet 46 million adults and 3.2 million teenagers in the U.S. continue to puff away.

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  • An international team of researchers carried out simultaneous cross-sectional studies for three student populations (roughly grade 4, grade 8, and students in final year of secondary school) and assessed nearly half a million students in 41 countries.

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  • Total consumer spending on home filmed entertainment for the second half of the year rose nearly one percent, fueled by a strong third quarter in which spending was up five percent, which marked the first quarterly increase since 2008.

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  • Researchers looked at nearly 3, 600 thyroid surgeries performed over a year and a half, in five French hospitals.

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  • "Half of the country saw yet another rise in unemployment, nearly half a million people have been on the dole for more than a year, and youth unemployment rose, " he said.

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  • Nearly half of those surveyed said they expect to retire later than had planned a year ago.

    FORBES: Mass Affluent Investors Believe Things Will Only Get Worse

  • Sainz came closest this year but was nearly two-and-a-half minutes off the pace.

    BBC: Gronholm wins in Sweden

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