• We estimate that wages and salaries rose 7.8% y-o-y in the past four weeks, exceeding the growth rate of 6.4% y-o-y in the past three months even though year-over-year comparisons are getting tougher.

    FORBES: Analyst: Signs Point To Lower Unemployment

  • Spain is the current European Under-21 champion, has won the UEFA Under-19 tournament five times in the past decade and reached five Under-17 championship finals in the past 10 years, winning twice.

    WSJ: La Roja: How Spain Became the World's Best Soccer Team

  • But at least 51 people elsewhere in the United States have died from heat-related -- or heat-exacerbated -- causes in the past two weeks.

    CNN: Northwest heat endangers crops

  • "Evil"--as Obama accurately described the Third Reich in his D-Day speech this past Saturday--has visited the world in the past.

    FORBES: Freedom's Edge

  • Given that the population has increased by one-and-a-half million in the past 25 years, and two-and-a-half million people in this city were born in other countries, some of which are at war with each other, it is a miracle the place is as peaceful as it is.

    ECONOMIST: It��s a London thing

  • Republican lawmakers used the pro-forma sessions - as Democrats have done in the past - to prevent the president from using his recess appointments power.

    BBC: Obama recess appointments found unconstitutional

  • We are intently interested on ensuring that these 74, 000 Americans who had jobs get them back, and the simplest path to that, since they were thrown out of work by a failure of Congress to act, is to bring Congress back, pass a clean extension -- which they have done 20 times in the past, in the recent past -- and put them back to work.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • The main reason for the resulting rise in the number of mini-countries is the shift from empire or dictatorship to self-determination, especially in the past quarter-century.

    ECONOMIST: How big should a nation-state be?

  • Pew also found that 12% of all Americans age 16 and older who read e-books have borrowed an e-book from a library in the past year -- and they're generally pretty happy with the experience.

    CNN: E-book lending: Your public library's best kept secret?

  • On the other hand, if -- as has been the case in the past --the Soviet regime remains unwilling to cede real power and determined to prevent fundamental systemic change, its current, highly publicized efforts at "reform" may amount to nothing more than temporizing measures, calculated to stave off rather than effect the necessary transformation.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: US-Soviet Relations

  • The comment hate being hurled at Google is partly derived from general monopoly-busting sentiment, but there is also a stuck-in-the-past misunderstanding of what Google has become.

    ENGADGET: Editorial: FTC and Google -- why the right decision feels so wrong to so many people

  • But the double dip - the ups and downs in the figures over the past four years - is much less important than the overall result.

    BBC: UK GDP: A nasty surprise and a puzzle

  • We can't prepare students for careers in business just by talking about the way business is done today--or was done in the past--or by adhering narrowly to case studies.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • The chief executive Lyn Hill-Tout points to changes on wards which - in the past - were singled out for criticism.

    BBC: Divisions in Stafford over scandal-hit hospital

  • And the mere threat of such a prospect may - as it has in the past - prompt a redoubled effort to shore up the European Union and its faltering common currency, the Euro.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Farewell to 'Europe'?

  • Twenty-nine police officers have been injured during the disturbances in Belfast in the past week - the PSNI said they were treating a petrol bomb attack on a female officer on Monday night as attempted murder.

    BBC: David Ford questions assembly flag meeting

  • In it, an ICI executive was quoted as saying the lobby no longer claims to represent investors--as it has in the past--but only the fund business.

    FORBES: Insult And Injury

  • The GS4 loses most of the well-polished curves prominently featured in the past-gen flagship, as it's designed with broader corners and a filled-out back, both of which are signs that Samsung has veered away from its "inspired by nature" mantra.

    ENGADGET: Samsung Galaxy S 4 review Mobile

  • Whether or not drugs played a role in the singer's death, the accounts of the sources who spoke to CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta show that Jackson was -- at least in the past -- routinely administered potent drugs to help him sleep.

    CNN: Jackson memorial ticket Web site flooded with hits

  • By the 1930s, the horses had been replaced by cars with the completion of the aptly named Going-to-the-Sun Road, a heart-in-your-mouth rollercoaster that climbs past cascading waterfalls and gaping cliffs up to the continental divide at 6, 646ft-high Logan Pass.

    BBC: Glacier National Park by train

  • The MP - who has been an outspoken critic of the prime minister in the past - will be asked to explain her actions to the Conservative Party Chief Whip Sir George Young when she returns from Australia.

    BBC: Nadine Dorries prepares for I'm a Celebrity

  • He said the press - having failed to regulate itself in the past - must create a new and tough regulator but it had to be backed by legislation to ensure it was effective.

    BBC: Press 'need to act' after Leveson

  • The impressive conventional military strength post-industrial states have procured in the past half-century has helped to determine the shape and nature of modern warfare.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: China's assymetrical strategy

  • With the help of a nationwide network of volunteers -- many of whom have benefited from the group in the past -- everything is free.

    CNN: Breaking down barriers so foster kids can find a family

  • He has reportedly denied Israel access to weapons, including bunker-busting bombs, even as sales of advanced arms to others in the Middle East - all of whom have tried to destroy Israel in the past - continue apace.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: One more time

  • And our argument has been -- to the Russians and others who have supported that regime in the past -- that it is a wrong thing to do to continue that support because of what he has perpetrated in this past year.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • InfoBuzz said it would also like to hear from people with a family member in custody - now or in the past - who would like to take part in an independent focus group to help advise the charity.

    BBC: Gloucester Prison family support service secures funding

  • But the core of the problem for Spain - reflected very clearly in the market movements of the past few days - is economic growth.

    BBC: The vicious euro circle keeps turning

  • How he interact with General Douglas Lute, the Iraq-Afghanistan war czar - to use the phrase - who has been skeptical in the past?

    NPR: Joint Chiefs Shake-Up Leaves Questions

  • Tottenham's alternative for athletics is to redevelop and enlarge the existing Crystal Palace stadium - the main home of the sport in the capital over the past few decades - but with only 25, 000 seats.

    BBC: Olympic stadium

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