The bear market that began for the Dow in January 2000 is now the third longest since World War II.

FORBES: Is It Over?

The bear market for the Dow that began in January 2000 is now the third longest since World War II.

FORBES: Is it over?

It was reborn as the Reichsmark in 1924, and lasted until the fall of the Third Reich after World War II.

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So I want to congratulate Coach Ken -- as I said, from my original home state, also the first Samoan American head coach in the history of Division I-A, just the third Navy coach since World War II to have a winning record in his first season.

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But all of those negative third years were prior to World War II, not in the post-1950 modern market era.

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Intraregional trade in Asia climbed from a fifth of the region's total trade after the second world war to a third in the 1980s to over half today.

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Despite farmers' loud political voice, barely 4% of the French workforce works on the land today, compared with a third at the end of the second world war.

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Before World War II, only one-third of the population earned enough to be subject to the income tax.

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Chen Nagar New York Why does the Western media wait till there is a crisis -- famine, war or disaster -- before they cover issues related to Third World countries like Sudan?

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But the third time was the charm for those in emerging markets to finally run a post-World War II institution in modern times.

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In 1944, in World War II, British Prime Minister Churchill arrived in Russia for talks with Stalin at the Third Moscow Conference.

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