Despite the problems affecting the aviation industry, as highlighted by the losses at British Airways and profit warnings from Virgin Atlantic, Ryanair announced a 19% rise in pre-tax profits to 90.1m euros, outstripping City expectations of a 15% rise.
But its chief objective seems to be defensive: to pre-empt the stunning rise of Google, a search engine which, though not a portal, could soon rival Yahoo!
Tincknell's appearance in the Leeds first team during pre-season marks an incredible rise for the youngster.
Mr Clegg has been burned in effigy by students, after breaking a pre-election pledge to oppose a rise in university-tuition fees.
The IPCC in February 2007 projected that if carbon dioxide levels doubled relative to pre-industrial levels, temperatures could rise between 3.6 to 8.1 degrees Fahrenheit (2 to 4.5 degrees Celsius) by 2100.
In earnings news, Indian software company Infosys ( INFY) is down almost 12% pre-market despite announcing a 33% rise in net profit.
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One would have to be something of a cynic to think that it was all rather planted: volunteer a near trivial rise in taxes, pre-agreed, in order to fend off demands for rises that might actually bite.
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But it's not happening anything like fast enough to meet goals outlined by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which talks of emissions peaking by 2020, preferably by 2015, if the target of limiting the global temperature rise to 2C from pre-industrial levels is to be met.
Many analyses suggest an average rise of 1.5C since pre-industrial times is guaranteed.
Industrial demand for palladium is forecast to rise by 7% to reach pre-recession levels of 2.65 million ounces, a six-year high, Johnson Matthey said.
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PwC then asks the key question: in the light of these figures, what has to be done now to ensure emissions fall fast enough that the target of constraining the rise in global average temperatures below 2C from pre-industrial times can be met?
The World Bank warned recently that temperatures might rise by a catastrophic 4C (7F) above pre-industrial levels, given the rate of political progress.
Other data has shown sales of already occupied homes on the rise, while the inventory of unsold homes is back at pre-crisis lows.
Jones uses eight years of data from ITG to show how this dropped significantly with the introduction of automation, spiked during the crisis of 2008, and either because of, or in spite of, the rise of HFT, has dropped by 2011 to near the pre-crisis lows.
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Valuations of private equity portfolios have now risen for seven straight quarters, a cumulative 40.1% rise that Triago claims puts net asset values nearly on par with pre-financial crisis peak levels reached in December 2007.
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As it currently stands, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change has set a target of limiting the rise in global mean temperature to 2C (3.6F) above pre-industrial levels.
Writing in the Journal Nature in April, researchers said pledges made at December's UN summit in Copenhagen are unlikely to keep the rise in the global mean temperature to 2C (3.6F) above pre-industrial levels.
Indeed, the rise of mobile technology has brought the very notion of work back to an almost pre-Industrial Revolution paradigm.
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With the rise of the mortgage lending industry and the proliferation of mortgage originating sales people, mortgage pre-qualification shifted from real estate agents to mortgage reps.
If there is one idea that has been pre-eminent in the modern world, it is that every child should have the opportunity through schooling to rise as far as their talents can take them.
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