Poor communications meant different towns could not agree when to mark the start of a new year.
With the start of a new year, I thought I would take a new approach in this space.
Erica Rannestad, commodities analyst with CPM Group, said there is a normal tendency for inventory building during the first month of a new year.
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Michael Clarke, Australia's stand-in captain, is drawing strength and optimism on this being the start of a new year as he aims to draw the series.
The other Northamptonshire recipient of a New Year Honour is 70-year-old Martin Cahill who has been appointed MBE for services to the community in Earls Barton.
On January 3rd, the first trading day of 2012, we got that big break out of the wedge, perhaps (as we talked about on our blog beforehand) due to new fund inflows at the beginning of a new year.
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So as 2012 begins and we toast the birth of a new year, I invite you to take a sip from the RedNek wine glass, think of Pat Gunkel and write down on that cocktail napkin the happy returns you can expect when you invest in creating a culture of ideas.
Match Of The Day is in the first year of a new three-year deal with the Premier League.
Jeep is getting a replacement for the aging Liberty this year, and Chrysler is trying to build upon the success of the new Jeep Grand Cherokee introduced a couple of years ago with a new version this year that gets a more fuel-efficient, eight-speed transmission and an optional diesel engine.
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With the start of a new academic year, I am reminded of the challenge of our push-pull mission in higher education.
After all, even the most bearish investor is ready to bid farewell to 2009 and toast to the hope of a brighter new year.
Three days after his birth his mother was on the phone closing business deals and strengthening Piazza for the start of a new school year.
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The beginning of a new calendar year is a good time for every manager to take stock and think about what you would do if you were starting fresh.
October used to be a special time for car dealers, the start of a new model year, when the latest vehicles would start arriving in showrooms drawing curious buyers looking for the newest styles and latest technologies.
From an average of 115 a year, new listings soared to 460 a year in the 1980s and 1990s, more than 85% of them on Nasdaq.
Senators voted for the constitutional court to rule whether he had committed treason over a number of acts, including a New Year's Day general amnesty which sparked great controversy.
The jury heard the couple did not speak for a couple of days during the New Year following a disagreement, but on the evening of Mr Bick's death Mr Hunnisett contacted her sounding "quite distraught" and said he had killed someone.
Saab will come out with a suite of new models in the next year and a half, including the new 9-5 which recently went into production.
Since 2007, the start of a new seven-year EU budget period, the money taps have been wide open.
After making 89 appearances for the Londoners, scoring one goal, he rejected the offer of a new one-year contract in June.
Yet rumors have been that the company is talking to its advisors since the end of the Chinese New Year on a possible IPO for the second half of this year.
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Masayasu Kitagawa, the governor of Mie prefecture and a pioneer of the new confrontational style, won celebrity last year by opposing the construction of a nuclear power plant.
Nvidia plans to introduce a new version of Tegra once a year.
By and large, businesses welcomed this tidying up, even though they will pay more tax during a four-year transition to a new system of payment, under which big firms will pay tax quarterly on a current-year basis, rather than in arrears as now.
Each of them has the option of tapping a new creative giver next year, or of giving again themselves.
The news is a momentous change for a company, and an industry, that has traditionally kicked off the New Year with a barrage of new product announcements, many of them surprises.
So if you lived in New York and started globe trotting but still maintained a lot of connections to New York and never set up a real home anyplace else, New York would say you are a resident of New York by virtue of your domicile even in a year in which you spent no time at all in New York.
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Lord Robertson, the alliance's secretary-general, said he expects to launch a new round of expansion next year, starting at a summit in Prague.
In an interview, Mr. Wu said he had indeed worked through Buffett family members to get hold of a video of Mr. Buffett wishing Chinese viewers a happy Chinese New Year.
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