True, that was mainly because of Asian demand for Canada's natural resources, as well as the strong fiscal position and well-regulated banking system Mr Harper inherited from the Liberals.
Onze Boutique Hotel offers well-styled rooms in strong colours: tango red, royal purple and graphic black and white.
Questioned about the need for an opposition at Stormont, the first minister argued there was already a strong well-informed opposition formed by the smaller parties within the executive.
And while Iomega may be onto something, by building digital music players and digital photography products, it is entering markets that already have well-entrenched players with strong brand recognition.
Electric carmaker Tesla Motors seems to be sitting in a sweet spot right now: its high-end luxury electric sportscars are seeing strong demand from the well-off eco-conscious and the car collecting set.
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Nor have I ever seen the counter-help, a dozen strong, break into a well-rehearsed cheer.
JetBlue is a strong and well-defined value brand (which helped it weather the recession).
He also wanted "strong, well-led, independent yet accountable police forces" able to "pursue the powerful without fear or favour".
It has a strong, well-paced story that propels it forward, but you can diverge from that path, backtrack, and explore.
On the other, there was concern regarding the lack of strong, well-executed randomized trial data of the target patient population.
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Another worry is that, although the big Spanish banks look strong and well-capitalised, the same cannot be said of the savings banks or cajas.
Since nerve cells use electrical signals, and magnetic fields can induce and disrupt such signals, a strong, well-aimed magnetic stimulation can affect the brain's operation.
But the relationship between the two governments and the two nations is strong and well-rooted, and has endured the past 10 years of extreme activity on both sides.
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To date, multi-family has experienced a strong turn-around but is well short of the boom I had been calling for.
He is an all-round striker - he can hold the ball up well, he is strong and he has a good touch - but the thing that stands out is his finishing.
Germany has become a leader in solar and wind through public-private financing mechanisms to finance energy innovation as well as strong demand side policies, such as the solar feed-in tariff policy adopted by the government in 1991.
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Now it is up to customer demand to deliver those top-line numbers--in particular, demand for flash memory chips in advanced cell phones as well as strong sales of AMD's 64-bit Opteron processor for computer servers, due to launch on April 22.
Despite declining circulation, newspapers are still a good advertising buy because their demographics are strong, with well-educated, high-income readers, Moloney states.
The EPP did well, thanks to strong centre-right showings in some of the new members, including Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia.
Ellison and Hurd are "quite complementary" and the two will coexist well even though both are strong-willed managers, said Amit Singh, who joined Google Inc.
As well as having a strong financial-services bent, boards should be pared down from the 12-16 members that are typical today, so they are less vulnerable to groupthink.
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Another well-situated retailer, Aeropostale, offers strong, preplanned promotions that help gain the trust of its consumers, Sozzi said.
The existence of strong sales channels and well-defined monetization models allows enterprise companies run by veterans to get to revenue a lot quicker than many consumer internet startups.
The strong earnings growth was well-flagged as the company issued positive earnings guidance in January and the stock jumped 5% on Tuesday just before the results came out.
But this year, Sass says the market will rediscover and again favor the undervalued stocks in well-financed companies that have had long-term earnings capabilities, enhanced by strong cash-flow growth, and have been steadily paying dividends.
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After years spent nursing MCI through bankruptcy and trying to recover from the scandals that killed its former incarnation, WorldCom, they're hoping to find a strong and well respected buyer--not another struggling company with its own history of scandal.
The entrance of new players at the national stage such as Southwest, JetBlue, and Virgin America, among many others, as well as the development of strong hub-and-spoke networks among the major airlines, put strong competitive pressure on the majors.
On Friday, a 12-strong guard, as well as the ship's commanding officer Commander Patrick Mowatt, have been invited to be part of the mayor's inauguration ceremony at Brangwyn Hall when councillor June Stanton will be sworn is as the city's new Lord Mayor.
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