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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.
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.

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Thus, in the last few years, a number of programs which looked very promising at the time their development was commenced have since been completely eliminated.
For the last two years, this frontier of the arts has produced a number of so-called `` non-dramas '' which have left indelible, bittersweet impressions on the psyche of this veteran theatregoer.
The number of dictionary forms skipped since the last one matched is also saved.
If we thus spent our very first day in the midst of a large number of your people honoring a new hero and a great national achievement, our last day, to us at least, was equally impressive and very moving, even though the crowds were absent and there was almost complete silence.
At last count, sixteen former Rhodes Scholars ( see box on page 13 ) had been appointed to the Administration, second in number only to its Harvard graduates.
He had written out the license number of his car but had transposed the last two figures, an old dodge which is still good.
I used the alias of Robert C. Richards, gave the first three letters and the first and last figure of the license number on the agency heap, but a couple of phony numbers in between.
In college libraries, 57 per cent of the total number of books are owned by 124 of 1,509 institutions surveyed last year by the U.S. Office of Education.
we cover each of these with our blanket of peas and then at last we have octillion peas corresponding in number to the atoms in the body.
" Heath comments that " The last phrase is curious, but the meaning of it is obvious enough, as also the meaning of the phrase about ending " at one and the same number "( Heath 1908: 300 ).
However, Mary II died childless in 1694, after which William III did not remarry, and Princess Anne's last surviving child, Prince William, Duke of Gloucester, died six years later, after which it was unlikely she would have any more children due to her age and the large number of miscarriages she had previously suffered.
As his teaching and work with the imperial chapel continued, his duties required the composition of a large number of sacred works, and in his last years it was almost exclusively in religious works and teaching that Salieri occupied himself.
Spanish midfielder Roger was the last player to wear the number.
The discovery on the island of a number of gold ornaments belonging to the last period of Mycenaean art suggests that Mycenaean culture held its own in Aegina for some generations after the Dorian conquest of Argos and Lacedaemon.
The office of Lord High Admiral passed a number of times in and out of commission until 1709, after which the office was almost permanently in commission ( the last Lord High Admiral being the future King William IV in the early 19th century ).
Because the differences between the prices are likely to be small ( and not to last very long ), this can be done profitably only with computers examining a large number of prices and automatically exercising a trade when the prices are far enough out of balance.
Informed sources report that the actual number is closer to 100, with the 50 % decline over the last four years attributable to the lack of ability within the FSC in administering insurance companies.
Another style was to truncate the last 3 digits and append K, essentially using K as a decimal prefix similar to SI, but always truncating to the next lower whole number instead of rounding to the nearest.
A quote from this series ranked number three in a list of the top 25 television " put downs " of the last 40 years by the Radio Times magazine.
They had finished in last place for two successive seasons, although they contained a number of promising young players.
The large number of experiments exploring the physics and chemistry of these so-called " colloidal crystals " has emerged as a result of the relatively simple methods that have evolved in the last 20 years for preparing synthetic monodisperse colloids ( both polymer and mineral ) and, through various mechanisms, implementing and preserving their long-range order formation.
This last language has the smallest number of consonants in the world, with just six.
Others have interpreted the fossil bearing rocks along Red Deer River in Alberta, Canada, as supporting a gradual extinction of non-avian dinosaurs ; during the last 10 million years of the Cretaceous layers there, the number of dinosaur species seems to have decreased from about 45 to about 12.

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