• According to JPMorgan, the economy in Britain probably shrank at an annual rate of 5.9% in the fourth quarter, the euro-area by 5%, and Japan by a heart-stopping 9%, in a country with no housing bubble or banking crisis.

    ECONOMIST: The economy

  • The 5% annual payout requirement will probably be amended to make certain administrative expenses ineligible.

    FORBES: On The Cover/Top Stories

  • Also, many Asian companies have only subsequently released annual numbers (which probably won't help sluggish Japan, whose presence here fell again, by 11%).

    FORBES: The Glacier Melts

  • "Because the maximum thickness of these small, low-altitude glaciers rarely exceeds 40 metres, with such an annual loss they will probably completely disappear within the coming decades, " said lead author Antoine Rabatel, from the Laboratory for Glaciology and Environmental Geophysics in Grenoble, France.

    BBC: Massive melting of Andes glaciers

  • But the thing about the annual culture war that would probably most surprise those who want to "keep the Christ in Christmas" is this: The original Puritan Protestants regarded the whole enterprise as blasphemous.

    WSJ: Christopher Hitchens on Forced Merriment, the True Spirit of Christmas

  • "The years of 300% annual increase in the stock price are probably over, " says Paul McKinnon, Dell's head of personnel.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • In fact, if Metzler is getting a 13% annual fee on NovaStar, then Smith Barney is probably charging the short-seller a bit more than that.

    FORBES: Shortchanged

  • If the Fed instead had refused to buy federal debt, interest rates, and therefore the annual cost of servicing the gargantuan federal debt, probably would have soared, thereby making it much more difficult politically for Congress and the White House to continue adding over a trillion dollars of debt per year.

    FORBES: The Wages Of Bernanke: Winners And Losers From QE3

  • The economy will probably have grown by over 8% in 1999, after growing by an annual average of 8.5% in the previous five years.

    ECONOMIST: Ireland

  • One of the annual visits by Wilpon and Katz to Madoff in the Lipstick Building, probably around 2000, was significant.

    NEWYORKER: Madoff��s Curveball

  • But according to Lester Thurow, a professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the keynote speaker at the National Rural Electric Co-operative Association's annual meeting in Las Vegas, their competitive advantage over private power companies has probably gone.

    ECONOMIST: Cross-country co-operation

  • The annual pass, in contrast, would represent a sizable discount over current prices, probably as a reward for particularly loyal users.

    FORBES: In-flight Internet To Get Cheaper With Lower Rates From Aircell?

  • Some of the smartest, most powerful - and richest - people in Europe come to Google's annual retreat at a country club just off the M25, so we both agreed that we were probably in the presence of billions.

    BBC: Open government - in tune with the Zeitgeist?

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