In fact, the authorised use of wiretapping for criminal investigations during the first half of this year decreased by 39% over the corresponding period of last year.
According to official figures, Hong Kong's economy contracted by 2.8% in the first quarter of this year compared with the same period last year.
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World steel output was 8.5% higher in the first eight months of this year compared with the same period last year.
American exports grew almost 17 percent over the first four months of this year compared to the same period last year.
More than 1, 500 hoax calls have been made during the first four months of this year, an increase of about 200 for the same period last year.
According to NPD, stores in the United States sold 13% fewer Windows devices over the late October to first week in December of this year than in the same period last year.
In Brazil, 135, 000 cases were diagnosed in the first three months of this year, a rise of about a third over the same period last year.
Both BP and Shell, for example, reported recently that they produced less oil in the third quarter of this year than they did in the same period the year before.
During the first half of this year, exports nearly doubled over the same period the preceding year.
In the first half of this year, investment has grown by nearly 24% compared with the same period last year, with half of the money going into high-tech industries.
But despite investment in new hotels and resorts, in the first quarter of this year tourist arrivals were 14% below the same period last year, according to official figures.
The rate at which tenants absorb space in the area has fallen 35% , to 610, 000 square feet leased in the first half of this year, from 940, 000 during the same period last year.
Based on MACD and the coming of the "best six months" period, the Almanac Investor went bullish on Oct. 2 this year, five trading days ahead of the Oct. 9 bottom.
But thanks to the new free trade agreement, imports from the U.S. were up 13% in the first five months of this year over the same period in 2001.
Sales of the Xbox 360 are on an upswing, jumping by 34 percent in the first eight months of this year versus the same period last year, according to data from market research firm NPD.
Reported kidnaps (more than half of which are estimated to be by the guerrillas) rose to 1, 532 in the first six months of this year, up from 1, 456 in the same period of 1999, according to Fundacion Pais Libre, a civic group.
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Ironically, if he were to miss the defence of his Portugal Masters title next week Westwood would overtake Woods at the top of the rankings as they are calculated over a two-year period at the end of this month.
Its orders were down by 24% during the first half of this year compared with the same period in 2011.
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Although the volume of exports increased, its export earnings fell by 5% in the first half of this year compared with the same period last year.
The last time Democrats had control of the Senate was in 1994 -- except for a period of 17 days earlier this year when Vice President Al Gore held the tie-breaking vote as president of the evenly divided Senate until the new Bush administration took office.
However, provisional figures indicate that incidence was slightly higher in the first two months of this year than in the corresponding period for 2010.
But as a result of the new free-trade agreement, imports from the U.S. were up 13% in the first five months of this year compared with the same period in 2001.
One small quibble is the affectation in the title that this period of California's history began in 1950 and ended in 1963 (coincidentally the year of President Kennedy's assassination).
The panel, which also votes on the IRB team and coach of the year during the same period, has deliberated over every major Test this year.
The Memory Business posted 5.50 trillion won in sales for the quarter, down from 7.49 trillion won posted the same period of 2010 and 5.89 trillion won in the second quarter of this year.
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Hiroshi Saito, a tourism-promotion official in Ishikawa, said his prefecture saw a 45% increase in the number of foreign visitors to its famous Kenrokuen garden for the first three months of this year, compared with the same period a year earlier.
That gives Apple enough memory to crank out the equivalent to between 60 million and 75 million 8-gigabyte units during the second half of this year, Handy argues, up from 30 million units during the same period last year.
And in this coming five-year period, most of the money we'll be spending is going to be direct payments, automatic payments that would be made the farmers no matter what prices are.
Richemont expects its sales and operating profit for the first six months of this year to be significantly higher than the comparative period.
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The ministry said the deaths occurred over a two year period, from 17 February 2011 to the end of February this year.
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