Strike one came on Monday, when the Treasury released its latest numbers on the Home Affordable Modification Program.
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Autism disorders strike one in 100 children, according to U.S. government estimates.
In sum, Netflix strike one in July was shocking customers with a 60% price increase and investors with an abrupt end to subscriber growth momentum.
So strike one Bernanke victory for higher stock prices, and one defeat in money markets, where the attempt to stimulate the purchases of homes through lower interest rates backfired.
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The chance of marriage success is related to the amount of time a couple has dated (strike one against Billy Bob) and is influenced by the age of the bride and groom (strike two: Angelina was 24 when they married).
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He was joined during that time by noted MIT economist Lester Thurow, who said that Western nations were doomed to paltry economic growth of 1% to 2% for the foreseeable future (strike one, Les) and that Europe would outgrow the U.S. (strike two).
Unite members voted by four to one for strike action and nine to one for action short of strike on a 65% turnout.
Teachers at an independent special school in Derbyshire are on strike after one of them was asked to take a random drugs test.
We recognize that no matter how responsibly we live our lives, hard times or bad luck, a crippling illness or a layoff may strike any one of us.
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The specific teacher strike was one where he called on all sides to work together to reach a compromise that was in the interest of the children, who had the most to lose from a prolonged strike.
Moreover, even when the free market works as it should, both our countries recognize that no matter how responsibly we live in our lives, hard times or bad luck, a crippling illness or a layoff may strike any one of us.
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The 2m-strong Congress of South African Trade Unions staged a one-day strike and threatened another bigger one unless the whole system was scrapped.
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The magnitude-6.3 quake is the deadliest to strike Italy in decades and the first major one to strike the country in almost seven years.
To complicate matters, the police briefly went on strike, and several unions called a one-day strike.
Dock workers in Hong Kong have ended a 40-day strike that affected one of the world's busiest ports.
However, the clock has yet to strike midnight for one Cinderella team, Wichita State.
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Sometimes, it seemed an entire game would see only one strike thrown his way.
He gave up his hunger strike after just one day, complaining of flu.
The fund has one strike against it--a steep expense ratio (1.6% a year)--but I couldn't find a cheap alternative from Vanguard.
This week the main trade union federations planned a national strike, though one of them pulled out at the last minute.
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Since the 1994 strike, only one team devoting as much as 20% of its payroll to one player has won a World Series.
One strike against Ms. Ketcham is that she doesn't belong to the Corps of Cadets, a 2, 100-member student military organization that each year nominates five of its own members as yell leaders.
And Texas was within one strike of winning the series in two successive innings where, with two outs, if the batter had swung and struck out, the game would have ended and Texas would have been the new champions.
In fact, if the historical record held true and Richard's body was stripped of its armor and flung face-down over a horse after the battle, he would have been in exactly the right position to allow someone to stab him upward in the right buttock, explaining one strike to the skeleton's pelvis.
My parents were also union activists and my mother led one notable strike in Ireland.
Do you believe that work comes before family, or that one must strike a balance?
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It's possible, says Moore, that Franklin confused a direct strike with a remote one.
They think his aim is to strike a deal with one of the main candidates.
Umpires should be forced to observe a uniform strike zone, the one described in Major League Baseball's own rulebook.
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