U.S. unemployment remains stubbornly high and start-up costs are rising, while high-tech exports are in decline.
In his forthcoming book Start-up Rising, veteran tech entrepreneur Chris Schroeder points out that Dubai is effectively the commercial capital for companies looking to gain access to about 300 million Arab consumers.
It was a casual, get-to-know-you visit, a meeting of an up-and-coming photographer and four rising pop stars arranged through Beatles manager Brian Epstein.
Part of the extra money would be eaten up by rising health-care costs, but it would also allow SCHIP to be extended to families at up to 300% of the federal poverty level.
Behind him, the twisting green vines stretch out into the distance, their leaves tinged with gauzy mid-afternoon light, their stems rising up from a rich ochre-red soil.
"Six Degrees", by leading environmental campaigner Mark Lynas, sounds a red alert for the health of the planet, charting degree-by-degree the likely consequences of rising temperatures up to the worst-case scenario 5.8 degrees Celsius (10 degrees Fahrenheit) rise envisaged by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's 2001 report.
This year, we conducted a follow-up study to gauge the impact of the ever-rising tide of information on major businesses across the globe.
It's obvious to other graduate students and post-docs rising up: if you choose to do this, this is what you will be subject to.
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He sings of a strappy(ph) little island of mixed-up people, about rising oceans, endless war, and lives spent under medication simply to deal with it all.
Recession or not, the U.S. is now engulfed in somewhat of a "perfect storm" of economic problems: A rapidly falling dollar, inflation, gummed-up credit markets and rising home foreclosures.
The events of 28 September 1769 were a "rising-up of ordinary, working people weary of the abuse of privilege" as people at the time were tired of "the moral bankruptcy of all too many of their 'betters'", he added.
All major copper mining companies are currently ramping up production to cash-in on rising copper prices.
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Securicor Aviation, Cardiff airport's security contractors, delivered up-beat figures with a turnover rising to 10% over the previous year.
According to St Mungo's, the number of rough sleepers in London is rising sharply - up by more than 40% in a year.
Noteworthy to us, however, was a rising pick-up in activity and skyrocketing premiums at exactly those strikes on the put side as well.
The gold market saw stepped up safe-haven buying support from rising tensions in the Persian Gulf, following the recent news Iran has halted oil shipments to some European countries, to pre-empt an EU ban on Iranian oil imports.
However, Thursday's HSBC data showed exports had stabilised in January, with the export orders sub-index rising to 50.1 - indicating fractional expansion - up from 49.2 in December.
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It turned out to be a New World, all right - with new threats rising up in place of the old.
Moreover, India is playing late catch-up with China, with FDI rising from just a few percent of China's figure in 2000 to about a quarter today.
Tunisian people were rising up against the socio-political situation.
Not unexpectedly, the theme park business has received a fresh boost from such rides as Cars Land at Disney California adventure, with admissions up eight percent and per-capita spending rising 10 percent.
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Analysts said perpetual bonds without a step-up clause are particularly vulnerable to rising U.S. Treasury yields, and the issuer has almost no incentive to redeem the bond when it will find only higher borrowing costs elsewhere.
Chicago already has some of the toughest gun control laws in the US. But the rising homicide rate - up 17% in the last year - combined with the national outrage over the mass shooting at a school in Connecticut has prompted calls for further action.
An ever-rising dividend and buybacks use up a lot of the cash.
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In America, especially, cyberspace is rising up the scale of national-security threats.
Rising interest rates--up more than a percentage point on most mortgages since a year ago--and a slowdown in booming prices are probably to blame.
That distribution suggests that some of the first men to bear the haplogroup in their Y-chromosomes were residents of Doggerland, a real-life Atlantis that was swallowed up by rising seas in the millennia following the Ice Age.
From afar, it looks so simple - a pure white wedding cake rising up from the desert.
As Japan moved into higher-value exports, rising productivity pushed up wages, making old industries, such as textiles, uncompetitive.
It is thought Hendrix had intended them for First Rays Of The New Rising Sun, his follow-up to Electric Ladyland, which he was working on when he died.
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