The Dodd-Frank financial overhaul law that was adopted two year ago included a measure that cut in half the interchange fees on debit cards.
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But -- and if it had come up a year ago or two years ago, I would have said no.
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People living in the area had concerns about a lack of out-of-hours cover following the retirement of the district nurse and two GPs a year ago.
The situation is further hurt by the failure of the U.S. Congress to ratify the free trade agreement that was agreed to by the two countries a year ago.
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And a couple of years ago or about a year -- almost two years ago now, I was working on a relative's house and I fell off a two-story ladder and broke my back.
He may do it a little bit differently now than he did it a year or two ago.
Besides, the rate gap between emerging markets and America's Federal Reserve is already wider now than it was a year or two ago.
In contrast, while the spreads on non-financial corporate debt have widened, they are only back to the levels reached a year or two ago.
With their internal antennae, color displays, Bluetooth connectivity and digital cameras, these handsets "would be considered upper-mid-tier as recently as a year or two ago, " Greengart notes.
Trostel says he often uses over 50 megabytes of data traffic a month, a sum that would be inconceivable for a phone user just a year or two ago.
The local system of ratings notches isn't directly comparable with international systems, but the ratio of upgrades to downgrades is now heading towards parity, from two or more a year ago.
Brazil just got there a year or two ago, much of it through rising wages for the poor and an expanding social safety net in the north, where there was none.
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"A year or two ago, many people thought Xbox Live and other console networks were mostly a way to connect gamers with other gamers, and an online store for videogame content, " says Guzman.
So much so that Couples, who was in much the same position after two rounds just a year ago, renewed his threat to retire on the spot if he won at Augusta National again.
At some point a year or two ago, the staff at my local Giant supermarket started randomly greeting me and asking if everything was all right, if I had found everything I needed, if there was anything they could do to make my shopping experience more pleasant.
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The alliance first signaled its intentions two years ago, detailed its first markets one year ago and faced a last-minute delay.
Over a year ago the two of them watched one of my speeches on YouTube.
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Doherty, 42, formed Urban Media a year ago with two fellow founders of At-Home, a leading cable-modem service.
Chelsea may be aging, but it was good enough to finish second last year and first two years ago.
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"I think this time last year, or two years ago, we would certainly have got a mortgage, but now they are being very careful, " Andy says.
Two years ago 18-year-old Gisela Ugalde was on a family trip to Buenos Aires, sitting next to her father as he drove down the highway in a heavy downpour.
The initiative would have permitted Mugabe, who has ruled this land since the minority white government was forced out two decades ago, to serve two more five-year terms as president, to enjoy--legally--more personal power and to seize--without compensating for them--tracts of land owned by white farmers.
Mr. LAPPE: Purchasing at a foreclosure auction today is probably much less of a deal than it was a year ago or two years ago, because previously, with credit standards being fairly loose, an investor who bought a property to foreclosure sale stood a pretty good chance of finding a qualified buyer to sell the property to.
This specialty fund has returned 19.5% a year since its founding two decades ago.
So how to explain the seeming contradiction with two larger studies published only a year ago?
Chipotle will grow to 100 stores by the end of next year, from 17 two years ago.
Democrats are doing better in early voting this year than we were two years ago when we swept the U.S. Senate and governors race.
In a so-called "proof of life" video released last year but apparently made two years ago, Levinson appears about 50 to 60 pounds lighter.
After meeting Dzhokar Tsarnaev a year ago, the two became friends, sometimes playing video games together, but they had not seen each other since January, Giovanni said.
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