More than 25 leading private equity and venture funds (the GIIRS Pioneer Funds), as well as over 200 of their portfolio companies in 29 countries around the world participated in the GIIRS world beta earlier this Spring.
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After peaking in the spring, world stocks market have been sliding lately amid concerns about a slowdown in world growth and a possible double-dip recession.
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Even so, the drooping real-estate market, combined with declining demand for Chinese exports in Europe and elsewhere, pulled back China's economy to an 8.1% pace in the first quarter of 2012, the slowest growth since the spring of 2009, when the world was in recession.
In every election since the second world war, falling unemployment in the spring of election year has foretold victory for the party in charge of the White House.
The third quarter recovery in emerging market stocks since the late spring panic has been resilient both to downward growth surprises in the developed world and China.
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The U.S. has maintained bases on Okinawa since the World War II battle there in the spring of 1945.
The richly detailed drama, which opened Monday night at Lincoln Center, is set in the spring of 1948, when the Cold War between former World War II allies America and the Soviet Union is under way.
The global purchasing managers' index (PMI) produced by JPMorgan and Markit, a research firm, showed the world's workshops at full stretch in the spring, as they restocked at a record pace.
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During a speech to the World Affairs Council in Los Angeles this spring, McCain tried to position himself in the middle of that spectrum.
But last spring, they became a bullhorn in the Arab world, and a lifeline in Japan.
And later this spring, the world will come together in New York to discuss how we can build on this progress, and continue to strengthen the global non-proliferation regime.
Only in recent years have we begun to appreciate how close Adolf Hitler came to winning World War II in the spring of 1940.
Only in the last decade or so have we begun to appreciate how close Adolf Hitler came to winning World War II in the spring of 1940.
In the spring, tourists come from all over the world to see the natural wonders: crystalline salt popping out of the ground, sand dunes surrounded by mountains, vibrantly colored, unearthly-looking rock formations and, if there's been enough rain, blooming wildflowers.
In the advertising world, the rites of spring cleaning can also be applied to the creative process to give us a fresh perspective.
So great is the demand in a world where new organisations spring up almost daily, and firms are increasingly known only by strings of initials, that there are simply not enough to go round.
The company may have requested the image via an expedited discovery procedure (legalese for quickly getting details to put together a case) last spring, which it had then used for other litigation in another part of the world like the U.S., Asia or Australia.
Announced in October 2012, 3net Studios - based at both Sony Pictures headquarters in Los Angeles, CA and Discovery Communications headquarters in Silver Spring, MD - employs a team of creative personnel, utilizing the world-class technology and production expertise of the parent company's joint venture partners to produce the highest quality native 3D and 4K content available.
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Fast forward to this spring, when the 2010 NL MVP felt so good that he played for Canada in the World Baseball Classic.
This is compared with 9.5 million in 2011 and 14.1 million in 2010, prior to the outbreak Arab Spring, according to data from the United Nations World Tourism Organization.
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In January of 1991, Summers became the chief economist at the World Bank, and that spring he recruited Sandberg as a research assistant.
At senior level the 26-year-old has finished eighth, sixth and ninth at the last three World Championships, and approached last summer's Olympics with a genuine spring in her step.
While Georgia might not spring to mind as an important wine producer, researchers have found evidence of the world's oldest wine making in the region.
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