The combination of a contracting economy and rising debt levels has driven the market yield on Greek two years notes to near 25% and on its 10-year debt to around 15%.
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The wait time for a kidney in western Europe is also three years, notes the Council of Europe, but it is expected to rise to ten years by 2010.
In India, for example, enforcing a simple commercial contract takes 56 procedures and nearly four years, notes the World Bank, while in Venezuela, workers who earn less than 1.5 times the minimum wage can't be fired.
Mr. Puzo, who says he has set up increasing numbers of quiet trusts in the past two years, notes that it is important not to leave heirs in the dark too long: The beneficiary needs to know his financial situation, and the family needs to make sure someone is keeping tabs on the trustee, he says.
Mr. Fleming-Wood, 44 years old, notes that he is a runner, not a jogger.
Over the last two years, he notes, Microsoft has barely been using 10% of free cash flow for buybacks.
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But over the past two years, he notes, scientists have discovered that they can generate viable animals from iPS cells.
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Over the past three years, he notes, the company has generated on average 45% EPS growth, with results beating expectations.
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"China has become increasingly confident and assertive in recent years, " notes Willem van Kemanade, a Dutch writer based in Beijing.
Between 2008 and 2010, cycle times increased to 13.6 years, Anderson notes.
"These fighters have played cat and mouse with the Indonesian military for 25 years, " notes prominent Australian East Timor activist Andrew McNaughtan.
Gallagher predicts Detroit will continue to struggle for many years, but notes that a few neighborhoods, like downtown, Midtown and Southwest Detroit, have already dramatically improved from 10 to 15 years ago.
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If a crime took place several years ago, notes Ms Powell, a Greek court may regard it as time-barred and decline to extradite, even though other EU countries would count it as still prosecutable.
There have been almost 40 new communicable diseases identified in the last 30 years, he notes, and more will likely arise as a growing world population brings people in closer contact with each other and disease-bearing animals.
Jackson is borrowing from material both Tolkein and his son added to the Hobbit in the form of notes, years later.
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The official document correctly notes two years of college and no degree.
While International expansion has grown at a faster pace in the last few years, Ebeltoft Group notes that retailers tend to penetrate similar markets when expanding internationally.
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"High school did not become de rigueur until about 30 years ago, " notes Patricia Albjerg Graham, education historian at Harvard University and author of Schooling America: How The Public Schools Meet The Nation's Changing Needs (Oxford University Press, 2005).
The report projects that Asia and the Pacific will take just 95 years to reach the same mark, and notes that China finished the job in just 61 years.
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"The U.S. food distribution business looks like the grocery business 15 years ago, " he notes.
He notes that in years past the company bundled iPods as part of back-to-school offers.
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Stephenson, a partner in Atlanta who has been keeping a "Dead Soldiers" file of his colleagues' goodbye notes for 27 years.
He notes that fives years post IPO, CRM traded at 6.5x revenues.
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Celine Dion's performance of My Heart Will Go On from Hollywood film Titanic - a highly popular film in China - still "moved people's hearts even after 15 years", the newspaper notes.
"Sales of refrigerators, television sets, mobile phones, motors and automobiles have surged in virtually every country in recent years, " the report notes, citing an 81% increase in possession of cars and motors in Ghana since 2006.
He notes that several years ago there had been speculation that ARM might make a dent in the netbook market, when the first entrants into the category chose to use Linux rather than Microsoft Windows to keep costs down.
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Ten years after the war, he notes that Bosnia is still seen largely as a security problem.
Bohn notes that in recent years, Colorado students and alumni have become more active in supporting the team.
"Interest in prehistoric remains has undergone a striking resurgence in France over the last few years, " Mr. Mickeler notes.
Hoover notes that Xerox nine years ago set up PARC as an independent (but wholly owned) business unit inside Xerox.
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