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Marketing in the new decade will be no picnic -- for the sixties will present possibly the most intense competitive activity that you have experienced in the last 20-25 yrs..
Under the most favorable assumptions for increase, the Bureau of the Census projects that the annual rate of household formations will rise from about 883,000 in the last two years of the Fifties to an annual rate of about 1,018,000 in the first five years of the Sixties, and to a slightly higher annual rate of 1,083,000 in the second half of the decade.
The climate and the events of the last decade, and the steady pressure of the `` cold '' war, have given Americans yet another means of avoiding self-examination, and so it has been decided that the riots were `` Communist '' inspired.
If Barnett doesn't call a special session in 1961, it will be the first year in the last decade that the Legislature has not met in regular or special session.
In the last decade the number of Negro-appeal radio program hours has risen at least 15 per cent, and the number of Negro-appeal stations has increased 30 per cent, according to a research man quoted by Sponsor.
According to research funded by the USAID CAPS project, Armenia's exceptionally high rate of economic growth during the last decade has been largely dependent on external factors ( e. g., remittances, assistance from international financial and donor organization ).
* 1363 – Beginning date of the Battle of Lake Poyang ; the forces of two Chinese rebel leaders — Chen Youliang and Zhu Yuanzhang — are pitted against each other in what is one of the largest naval battles in history, during the last decade of the ailing, Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty.
In the last decade of the 6th century, Aeschylus and his family were living in the deme of Eleusis.
The population has remained at a low density for more than 90 years, with additional reductions during the last decade.
The Republic of Belarus has conducted effective military reforms within the last decade which have reshaped its armed forces as a relatively effective force for a small state in somewhat difficult economic conditions.
Mobile phone technology has skyrocketed in Burkina Faso in the last decade, growing from 2, 700 subscribers in 1998 to 398, 000 in 2004.
Passenger levels have increased in the last decade to the level they had been at in the late-1940s.
Kenya, they were extirpated within the last decade due to illegal hunting with dogs.
However, beyond this theoretical significance, efficient and scalable algorithms for SAT that were developed over the last decade have contributed to dramatic advances in our ability to automatically solve problem instances involving tens of thousands of variables and millions of constraints.
In 1950, he had two top ten hits, " Ida Red Likes the Boogie " and " Faded Love ", which were his last hits for a decade.
It is the most successful AFL club of the last decade ( 2000 – 2009 ), having appeared in four consecutive AFL Grand Finals between 2001 and 2004, winning three premierships ( 2001, 2002 and 2003 ).
Most modern CPU designs are at least somewhat superscalar, and nearly all general purpose CPUs designed in the last decade are superscalar.
International estimates suggest losses in the billions throughout the last decade.
The Economy of Cambodia has seen rapid economic progress in the last decade.
Key issues over the last decade have been the implementation of the Dayton Accords and the Erdut Agreement, nondiscriminatory facilitation of the return of refugees and displaced persons from the 1991-95 war including property restitution for ethnic Serbs, resolution of border disputes with Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Montenegro, and general democratization.
In 1966, Mao and his allies launched the Cultural Revolution, which would last until Mao's death a decade later.
By then Wilson was the last surviving member of Attlee's cabinet and the unveiling of the statue would be the last public appearance by Wilson, who was by then in the first stages of Alzheimer's Disease and who died in May 1995 after a decade of ill health.
Communications in Afghanistan has increased in the last decade, and has embarked on wireless companies, internet, radio stations and television channels.
Blood transfusion was formerly the second-most common mode of transmission for Chagas disease, but the development and implementation of blood bank screening tests has dramatically reduced this risk in the last decade.

last and career
It stars Jack Warner as an England cricketer playing the last Test of his career, which is the last of an Ashes series ; the film contains cameo appearances from cricketers, including Jim Laker and Denis Compton, who were part of England's 1953 triumph.
Referring to the above sketch of Spartan history, we find Agesilaus shining most in its first and last period, as commencing and surrendering a glorious career in Asia, and as, in extreme age, maintaining his prostrate country.
It would be his last game ; during spring training the following year he developed glaucoma, which ended his career.
In the last two decades of his career, Chaplin concentrated increasingly on re-editing and scoring his old films for re-release.
On September 22, 1911, Young shut out the Pittsburgh Pirates, 1 – 0, for his last career victory.
In his final start two weeks later, the last eight batters of Young's career combined to hit a triple, four singles, and three doubles.
Although he had other sponsors during his career, his No. 3 is associated in fans ' minds with his last sponsor, GM Goodwrench, and his last color scheme — a predominantly black car with bold red and silver trim.
This opened the last chapter of Flores's long career and marked the entrance to power of García Moreno.
However, Satie's military career did not last very long ; within a few months he was discharged after deliberately infecting himself with bronchitis.
During his career he wrote poetry, prose, and stage plays ; his last novel was Kenelm Chillingly, which was in course of publication in Blackwood ’ s Magazine at the time of his death in 1873.
Three years later Unitas would end his NFL career by starting four games for the 1973 Chargers ; his last win was a 34-7 win over the Bills.
To these last 34 years of his career belong the most important of his works ; his version of the Old Testament from the original Hebrew text, the best of his scriptural commentaries, his catalogue of Christian authors, and the dialogue against the Pelagians, the literary perfection of which even an opponent recognized.
An accomplished career saw him making 55 further appearances ( the last 22 as captain ) for the national side, with perhaps his best game being 1958 at Wembley Stadium when he scored a hat-trick against the Soviet Union in a 5-0 win.
While many probably expected the Jaguars to just be happy to be there, the Jaguars won 30 – 27, and knocked Buffalo QB Jim Kelly out of what would turn out to be the last game of his career.
The last campaign of the war ( 1648 ) was uneventful, and shortly after its close he retired to live on the estates which he had bought in the course of his career, and on one of these, Benátky nad Jizerou NE of Prague in Bohemia, a gift from the emperor, he died on September 12, 1652 and was buried in the church of Nativity of the Virgin Mary in Benátky.
For the last three seasons of his career, Bench caught only 13 games and played mostly first base or third base.
Mitchell's journalism career, which began in 1922, came to an end less than four years later ; her last article appeared on May 9, 1926.
The three major employers of career physicists are academic institutions, government laboratories, and private industries, with the largest employer being the last.
His normal career as a young member of the senatorial class did not last long.
Just retired president Éamon de Valera, in his last public engagement of a fifty-six year political career, sits on the extreme left ( foreground ) of the picture.
It was the last at-bat of his career during a regular season, though he did play in the 1972 NLCS playoffs against the Cincinnati Reds.
He also put on 167 in a partnership with Alan Davidson, the first collaboration between the pair, who would later go on to lead Australia's bowling in the last five years of their career.
Later, he fell into one of the worst slumps of his career, only snapping out of it during the last week of the season.

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