It also marks the beginning of a year in the spotlight for African football, with South Africa set to become the continent's first country to host the FIFA World Cup in June.
It was a major blow which could be the beginning of the end of a 40 year old guerilla movement known as The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
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Bizarrely, if a company falls below the target at the beginning of a plan year, it has to immediately start pouring in more money to get to 100%, instead of moving up in increments until 2011.
The number of refugees leaving the country has increased from 1, 000 a day at the beginning of the year to more than 8, 000 a day.
But this may be just the beginning of a brighter year for the North Carolina bank.
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If you want to switch to an MSA plan, do so at the beginning of a calendar year.
On January 3rd, the first trading day of 2012, we got that big break out of the wedge, perhaps (as we talked about on our blog beforehand) due to new fund inflows at the beginning of a new year.
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And one of the things we're very proud of is the fact that we had a 6 percent contraction of the economy at the beginning of last year -- this past quarter we had a 6 percent increase in the growth of the economy.
The drop in Thorntons' share price following the release of its trading results follows a more than quadrupling of its share price since the beginning of last year on rising hopes of a turnaround.
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The handover ceremony in Delhi, featuring a cast of 346 Scots, will mark the beginning of a four-year journey that will culminate in Glasgow hosting the biggest sporting event ever to take place on Scottish soil in 2014.
The other shortcoming: If an employee leaves a company at the beginning of the year, he or she can get a windfall.
But given the severity of the job losses that took place at the beginning of the year and the need for us to make up a whole lot of job loss, is going to require I think some bold, innovative action on our part and on Congress's part and on the private sector's part.
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But the subsequent cyclical bear market turned out to be the beginning of a 17-year sideways secular bear market.
The beginning of a new calendar year is a good time for every manager to take stock and think about what you would do if you were starting fresh.
The FDA is at the beginning of a ten-year campaign to eliminate salmonella in eggs, and while experts acknowledge pasteurization is one way to do it, they also suggest cleaner processing as an alternative.
Now for the downside, at least for Davidson's company: The FDA is at the beginning of a ten-year campaign to eliminate salmonella in eggs, and though experts acknowledge that pasteurization is one way to do it, they suggest cleaner processing as an alternative.
As if all that fiscal uncertainty were not enough, on March 1 the sequestration provisions of the Budget Control Act that were delayed by a bipartisan agreement at the beginning of the year are supposed to trigger.
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To get around the obvious challenge of longevity for a show about a character with a terminal disease, each season of the television series will represent a season of the year, beginning with summer.
Between an aircraft that is at the end of a 40-year evolution and one at the beginning of what is likely to be a similarly long career, there is no contest.
The flood of job loss we saw at the beginning of this year slowed to a relative trickle last month.
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Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, who put the risks of a recession at about 30% at the beginning of the year, has said more recently that the steep housing slump and financial market turmoil in August have pushed that chance up, although the risk still remained below 50%.
Retail flows into equity funds were positive for the fourth week running, keeping them on course for the strongest start to a year since the beginning of 2006, fund tracking firm EPFR Global said Friday.
The number of cattle on Canadian farms rose from 13.5m at the start of 2003, to 14.7m a year later and to 15.1m at the beginning of this year.
Republicans gave me this list the beginning of this year as a priority, something that they thought they could do.
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Normally, the body takes up economic matters only at fixed times, the beginning, the middle, and the end of a year.
Demand in its home market France fell due to the impact of a tax rise on alcoholic beverages implemented at the beginning of the year.
Also since the beginning of the year, a subcommittee of your Board has given a great deal of time to selecting and appointing the new Chief Executive of the NAPF.
Barack Obama, who called for the repeal of DADT while running for president and again in his state-of-the-union message at the beginning of this year, instructed Mr Gates to consider the effects of such a move.
Overall, the number of women who were obese jumped from 7% at the beginning of the study to 12% a year after the birth and then to 31% by 15 years.
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