One thing that stood out in the tables below, though, was this: In the two weeks following that big down day, the SPX is positive 67% of the time if the preceding month was negative, compared to 57% of the time if the previous month was positive.

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Most are also limited by short time periods preceding and following a ban.

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As she told the story of the preceding few weeks, a time when several different venture capital funds in New York were vying for a spot in her Series A round, pestering her with phone calls, lunch offers and even the occasional gift, it struck me.

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Katich was full of praise for Symonds, who had a quiet time in Australia's preceding series against New Zealand.

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Is it also coincidental that in this time of union decline, the amount of wealth concentrated in the hands of the top 1% is the largest since 1929, the time in our history immediately preceding the era when the modern union movement was taking hold?

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This endorsement by Professor Mundell, together with others of great stature preceding him, ought to prove sufficient to persuade Mr. Cantor that the time is ripe to place the gold standard at the fore of the jobs and prosperity agenda.

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The loss of -- the job loss this past year and the months preceding it were as severe as anything we've seen for a very long time, as rapid as we've seen in a very long time.

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Given our English tradition and the fermentive gestation period preceding the formal break with Great Britain, the Declaration itself was not seen as particularly important at the time of its creation.

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