Audiences continued to line up for "The Dark Knight Rises, " even as the North American box office slowed amid competition from summer Olympics coverage and the aftermath of the recent shootings in an Aurora, Colo.
Shortly after the Olympics, it opened its first overseas office close to Nike's headquarters in Portland, Oregon.
The office is bound to be a prime place for Olympics spoilers.
The Beijing Weather Modification Office gained fame around last year's Beijing Olympics for trying to drain clouds near the city ahead of Aug. 8 Opening Ceremonies.
Security for the Olympics is thought to have contributed to the figures, while the Home Office highlighted arrests at a demo outside the US Embassy in 2011.
The Home Office says it will review arrangements for the Met's counter-terrorism role after the London Olympics take place next year.
On the heels of the great turnaround success of the Olympics, he was recruited to run for Governor of Massachusetts, and he won, taking office in 2003 and serving for four years.
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Following a second quarter that was the wettest on record, the Olympics period in central London brought slightly less rain than normal, a spokeswoman for the Met Office, the U.K. weather agency, said Sunday.
Members of the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union who work at the Home Office will strike for 24 hours over job cuts and other issues on Thursday - the day before the Olympics begins.
After the Olympics came a vast transformation to the current Michelin star-studded gastronomic paradise, likewise a renaissance for office towers, shinkansen fast trains, freeways and, later, mass foreign tourism with a strong currency and credit cards.
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