Europe, which started the year so well, has seen its prospects deteriorate rapidly this year.
The Deepwater Horizon rig, which started the Gulf oil disaster, was drilling in 5, 000 feet of water.
The housing market which started the whole mess in America was still weak despite unprecedented government stimulus.
Back in the summer, Facebook, which started the app trend a few years ago, announced it was integrating Spotify and other media services into its platform.
In January 1996, Congress voted to put 760, 000 federal employees back on the payroll, which started the process of all federal employees eventually returning to work.
In a country where the white population makes up just under 10% of the population the XV which started the World Cup final contained two non-white players.
This is a significant victory, '' said U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft , whose views on the Microsoft case, which started during the Clinton Administration, have been something of a mystery.
These treatments became a mainstay of the nascent biotechnology industry, which started with the founding of Genentech in 1976.
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The triumph is the culmination of a golden year for England's women - which started with the retention of the Ashes down under last winter - and the manner in which it was achieved is testimony to the professionalism of the squad.
The dramatic rally in Japanese stocks, which started in the middle of November, has maintained strong momentum.
Yet although his team conceded early in the game the Magpies manager can have few complaints with the tenacity with which the Magpies started the match, nor the vociferous support from the home crowd.
The regulator is worried that automatic enrolment, a long-term process which started in the autumn of 2012, means that hundreds of thousands of employers, and millions of workers, will start dealing with a company pension scheme for the first time.
The renegade was born out of preparation which is largely attributable to our new marching orders which started with the technology revolution and information age.
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The Bobcats, which started play in the 2004-2005 season, had the typical rough go in their early years as an expansion team.
But the company, which started out in the 1970s strictly as a heart-valve maker, has a history of successfully moving into new areas.
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It showed there was an strain called FQR1 which started in the US and spread across the country and to Switzerland and South Korea.
The shadow justice minister welcomed the government's decision to continue with an independent review of the family justice system which was started by the previous Labour government.
To recap: The Europa League is a rebranded version of the UEFA Cup, which itself started as the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup and absorbed the former European Cup Winners' Cup down the road.
When each marathon was completed, a marker was placed on the road, from which point he started the following day.
Russia, on the other hand, has stalled the completion of the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant, which was started by the Germans in 1975.
His mother Patricia died in the fire which started in her bedroom, the inquest at Truro City Hall heard.
As the train's magnets pass over a frame, they induce an electric current in it and this, in turn, generates a magnetic field which repels the magnet that started the whole process and thus levitates the train.
Some 800, 000 people have fled the most recent unrest which started last April after the M23 fighters mutinied from the army.
The PLAYERS, which started in 1974, was the brainchild of then-Tour commissioner Deane Beman, who thought the Tour needed its own championship.
The blaze which killed the two men started in the ninth floor of the tower block in Church Street after a curtain left draped over a light bulb caught fire.
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The Banff Festival, which started in 1975, is the biggest film and book festival devoted to the outdoors and those who play in it.
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The recent spurt in American productivity may be the productivity pay-off from the computer revolution, which started 50 years ago with the invention of the transistor.
During the 17 quarters prior to the financial crisis (which started with 3Q2008), the Fed increased the size of the monetary base by 13.3%, and NGDP grew by 24.4%.
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Shell, which discovered and started the country's oil well in the late 1950s, has been heavily criticized by activists and local communities over oil spills and close ties to government security forces.
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