The year New Wave Style moved in to Rana Plaza, 2010, was a good one for Bangladesh's garment industry.
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The economic troubles in Greece last year sparked a wave of sovereign debt woes across Europe, especially hitting Ireland, Spain and Portugal.
If 2012 was the year the Korean Wave came ashore around the world, then certainly Lee Jay-Hyun made one of the biggest splashes.
If the Nikkei index were to slip back below the 15, 000 level which it hit late last year, another wave of banking failures would ensue.
In 1890 he was still plugging away, as reported by Century Magazine that year, altering wave forms, turning figures in different directions, adding and then deleting lightning bolts.
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The next year, New Wave Style expanded to a 40, 000-square-foot space in Rana Plaza, located in Savar, a former agricultural area on Dhaka's outskirts that was fast becoming a garment-industry boomtown.
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One important tangent of this discussion hasn't had much exposure in the United States: the now 25-year-old wave of new Chinese documentary (and documentary-influenced fiction), whose development has paralleled the nation's emergence as an economic powerhouse.
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The state's voter rolls have swelled by more than 150, 000 this year, including a wave of new voters in black areas of Indianapolis and Gary.
The issue is more important to GM, whose workforce is much older than Ford 's or Chrysler's, even after last year's big wave of early retirements.
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The issue is more important to GM, whose workforce is much older than Ford 's (nyse: F - news - people ) or Chrysler's, even after last year's big wave of early retirements.
But this year, there is a wave of players who can help a team.
President Clinton and House Democratic Leader Richard A. Gephardt (D-Mo.) came to campaign for him, helping Kennedy get elected despite that year's Republican tidal wave.
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Including both the game console and the PC markets, sales of 3-D accelerators jumped from 140, 000 units in 1995 to 34 million last year, according to 4th Wave, an Alexandria, Virginia, research firm.
This was, after all, the year of the epic summer heat wave, the hottest August ever recorded in the northern hemisphere.
This year, bankers expect a new wave of Hong Kong IPOs from multinationals looking to list their China operations, throwing out names of prospects like U.S.-based Yum Brands Inc.
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The quartet Alt-J, whose "An Awesome Wave" won last year's Mercury Prize as Britain's best album, did much with little on stage as odd two-part vocal harmonies, a gently picked electric guitar, lush synth lines and syncopated percussion coalesced into a distinctive blend that united folk, prog rock, electronica, show tunes and hip-hop.
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D-Wave Systems announced today that it has signed a multi-year contract with Lockheed Martin that includes the sale of its D-Wave One system, which is the first commercially available quantum computer.
In the past year, we've seen another wave, with targets such as PriceRunner, LowerMyBills.com, Kelkoo, Shopzilla, Shopping.com.
The record-breaking 9, 000 nautical mile (16, 668km) trip took the PacX Wave Glider just over a year to achieve.
Optimists are saying 2013 could be the year that the oft-predicted consolidation wave for regional and community banks comes ashore.
In the past year, we have seen a tragic wave of police officer fatalities, and have mourned the loss of too many public safety officers.
IPCC's panel on hurricanes, recently suggested that there exists a link between climate change and the wave of powerful hurricanes last year, he was immediately challenged.
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The median home price across all 500 ZIPs in our index fell 5% from last year, and experts worry about a wave of new foreclosures hitting the market.
That has created a headwind for stocks of big home builders, following a five-year run during which shareholders rode the wave of the white-hot housing market to new riches.
Only the year-end sums will tell if this wave of fiscal belligerence has won benefits outweighing the costs.
But it hasn't helped its cause by gunning for market share last year just as Intel was rolling out a wave of advanced new chips.
Last year's midterm elections produced a Republican wave that enabled the party to take back the House of Representatives and to eliminate the Democrats' filibuster-proof Senate majority.
The company successfully completed a grid connection of a wave energy device in the US a year ago.
No one is surfing this giant wave like Yasumitsu Shigeta, 34-year-old president of Hikari Tsushin, Japan's hottest wireless phone vendor.
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