Then came the announcement that back the previous fall he had renounced his US citizenship and gone off to live in Singapore.
The purchasing managers survey for manufacturing - the PMI - hit a ten-month high in March, and the service sector survey for that month made back nearly all of the fall of the previous month.
The latest quarterly figures brought total losses in the nine months to end-December to 50.9bn yen, a 75% fall on the previous nine months.
Combined output of North Sea oil and gas has fallen considerably from its heyday at the end of the 1970s to 2.48 million barrels a day last year, a 6% fall from the previous year.
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The lease hasn't yet been finalized, and the center has had several previous deals fall apart, according to people familiar with the matter.
Fifteen were in Glasgow, the lowest figure for the city in 10 years and a fall of 11 on the previous 12 months.
House prices dropped in October compared with the previous month as the property market saw an autumn fall, according to the Nationwide.
Even with a massive Christmas surge, the Wii will likely fall far short of previous years, as it seems the fad is finally fading.
Forecasts for the weekend predict snowfall at least for the higher areas, and many are clinging to the hope that, as in previous years when the snows have failed to fall in early December, January has often been a bumper month.
Germany's Ifo business-climate index recovered in November from its sharp fall of the previous month.
There were an estimated 92, 000 applications for asylum in 2001, a 7% fall on the previous year.
The Homes and Communities Agency has announced that the number of "affordable housing starts" for 2011-2012 was just 15, 698 - a 68% fall on the previous year.
In the first two months of 2011 China manufacturing industry was enjoying profit growth year on year of 35%, and this was a fall from the previous (2010-2009) period.
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The company said "the German market cannot detach itself from this development and is expected to fall significantly short of the previous year's level".
The Shanghai Daily reported on Tuesday that 187, 700 square meters of new houses were introduced to the local market, a fall of 13.3% from the previous week.
In January, 48 cities saw prices fall compared to the previous month.
Prices in Britain fell by 0.7% in July, compared with the previous month, taking the total fall since the market peak to a rather modest 13.1%.
The average of non-manufacturing employment, business activity and new business orders dropped 1.9 points, to 50.0 from 51.9 in May, a sharper fall than in the previous month.
"Growth in household loans slowed notably from the previous quarter, while sales on credit saw a big fall amid sluggish consumption, " the bank said in a statement.
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At least two dozen private colleges froze tuition this past fall, roughly double the previous year's total.
The number of unemployed men continued to fall and was down by 2, 000 on the previous three months, while female unemployment rose by 3, 000.
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As a whole, the global PC market saw shipments fall 0.2%, compared with the same period the previous year.
Until last year, the figures, from the database of teacher records, showed a fall in the number of qualified teachers leaving the profession over the previous five years.
The FHFA last fall announced a sweeping revision of HARP guidelines, including eliminating a previous cap that limited the program to borrowers who owed up to 125% of their current property value.
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The number of people claiming jobseekers allowance in Wales was 80, 800 in March, which is 2, 000 fewer than in February and a fall of 2, 800 over the previous 12 months.
As noted in a previous Crotty on Education column, in the fall of 2011 Stanford University Professor, Sebastian Thrun, launched a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on artificial intelligence that attracted more than 160, 000 students.
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Euro zone leader Germany saw its GDP fall by 0.6% from the previous quarter.
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It saw a 2.3% fall of like for like sales on the previous year.
The unemployment rate in Northern Ireland has fallen to 6.5%, a fall of 0.4% from the previous quarter.
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