It seems like yesterday that we were playing in the final four first game against UCLA. I remember NBC announcer Curt Goudy kept calling us DUKE until the end of the first half when UCLA was only ahead of us by three points.
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However, chief executive Frans van Houten said he expected sales to remain subdued in the first half of this year, because of the "challenging market" in the US and Europe, which account for well over half of Philips' revenues.
The US contribution to Equal Futures includes a renewed commitment to opening more doors to high-quality education and career opportunities in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) for women and girls, who currently hold only one-quarter of all US jobs in these fields despite making up nearly half of the total US workforce.
Perhaps due to her separate story-line, the writers of The Walking Dead have subjected us to nearly one half of the entire season devoted entirely to the most irritating character in the show.
"We believe we are in a good position to do so and the strategy to use the much developed MP4-17D in the first half of the season has provided us with a platform to achieve our goal, " the spokeswoman added.
We believe the positive momentum this quarter, as well as the cost efficiencies we are targeting in the second half of the year, will significantly advance us towards our goal of approaching breakeven Adjusted EBITDA excluding litigation spend.
We see the stable prosperity many of us experienced in the second half of the twentieth century as more of a historical aberration.
Mr Obama also said he would reduce by more than half the number of US troops in Afghanistan over the next year.
According to data from IHS, Sony sold four million PS3s in the first half of 2012 across Europe, the US, Australia and Japan, while Microsoft sold three million Xbox 360s.
In 2002, Mrs Adams says she expects Colorado's economy to retract slightly during the first six months but begin growing slowly in the second half of the year - if the larger US economy begins recovery.
Despite Android now holding more than half of the US smartphone market, revenues remain relatively low.
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It was a tough game, I don't think people realise how much the first half took out of us.
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Because so many had lost or bartered their clothing along the way, only half of us wore any garments at all.
The betting, observers said, is now on a recovery in the second half of the year - aided by expectations that US interest rates will next week follow in the footsteps of the cut made by Europe's central bank earlier this month.
Research firm NPD Group listed Big Fish as the top casual digital retailer in the US in the first half of this year.
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In fact, we have become so accustomed to the tranquility and prosperity the continent has known for the past half-century that most of us forget that such conditions are very much the exception there, rather than the rule.
The Government Accountability Office recently reported that at the close of 2012, US regulators have adopted and implemented only half of the rules mandated by Dodd-Frank, which was originally passed in 2010.
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For the first time in history, more than half of the people in the world, 3.3 billion of us, live in cities.
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We're still waiting to hear back on MSRPs, but you can expect each and every one of these to hit US retailers in the first half of the year.
The U.S. economy should grow around 4%, but the longer the Fed dithers, the slower the economy will grow in the second half and the tougher it will be for all of us in 2006.
And it is not simply a positive step for those millions and millions and millions of families who would benefit from it, but it would be positive for the economy and would help us avoid more than half of the so-called fiscal cliff.
The second half of the Macedonia match and the attitude of the team against the Netherlands had us chin-stroking, trying to work out why on earth we hadn't seen the likes in previous encounters.
Meanwhile in Washington, the Pentagon - the heart of the US defence establishment - reopened on Wednesday, even though only half of the building is safe for use after attack by another crashing hijacked jet.
We keep possession more on our opponent's half of the pitch, allowing us to showcase our technical differences.
In the other half of the draw, Roger Federer will take on Novak Djokovic in a repeat of their US Open semi-final.
We almost made it under sail and oar, but Norman, the skipper of the safety yacht, towed us the final half-mile to the anchorage.
"The difference in the game was the level of pressure they put on us in the second half and certainly the shots they made, " Butler coach Brad Stevens said.
By the way, only 2, 000 bottles were made, half of which are being shipped to the US, and it will be on sale in October, less than a month away.
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"Their bulk and strength over the course of the game just really got us in the second half when we got ourselves in a situation where we couldn't make shots, " Northwestern State coach Mike McConathy said.
Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve and Wall Street are assuring us that the economic slowdown in the first half of the year was temporary, that the current quarter and second half will see a robust recovery.
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