Word: periodicity
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...sale of 50% of the company's Smith Barney brokerage division to Morgan Stanley. Take that out as well as some other onetime events, and CreditSights' Hendler says the company actually lost 70 cents a share, or about 30% more than it did in the same three-month period a year ago. (See the top 10 bankruptcies...
...Much of the concern is focused on China, where government stimulus efforts have been large and effective. Money in China has been especially easy to find. Aggregate new bank lending surged 201% in the first half of 2009 from the same period a year earlier, to nearly $1.1 trillion. Exuberance over a quick recovery - which was given a boost by China's surprisingly strong 7.9% GDP growth in the second quarter - has buoyed investor sentiment not just for stocks but also for real estate. According to government data, new home prices in 36 Chinese cities rose 6.3% in June from...
...allegedly giving explosive details about Jackson's drug use. The story cited her attempts to curb his addiction as the reason she was let go. "I had to pump his stomach many times. He always mixed so much of it," the paper quoted Rwaramba as saying. "There was one period that it was so bad that I didn't let the children see him ... He always ate too little and mixed too much." Rwaramba quickly put out a statement disavowing the piece: "I don't even know how to pump a stomach." She said she had never spoken...
...weak accomplices in the scheme, which Brody distinctly labels a "conspiracy." For example, Brody writes that effective Feb. 1, 2000, "pursuant to the conspiracy, Regal Lager and BabyBjörn vigorously enforced resale-price maintenance against Internet retailers, gave BRU preferential treatment and stopped opening Internet accounts. During this period, BRU accounted for most of Regal Lager's business. Its founder, Bengt Lager, said about BRU, 'It's hard to say no when they have over 50% of our business...
Ruto, the report said, incited, financed and planned violence through hate speech and it quoted him saying that his tribe, the Kalenjin, would uproot outsiders and burn them. The report said: "Politicians who during the election campaign period preached messages of ethnic hatred particularly aimed at the forceful eviction ... are responsible for setting up a context that facilitated these forceful evictions...