A year ago, when I met with you, the nation was emerging from an economic downturn, even though the signs of resurgent prosperity were not then sufficiently convincing to the doubtful.

I'm still not convinced, though, I'll have to see more of him before predicting that big year for him.

To me, Brandt looks as though he could be in for a fine year.

He rented a home for $ 50 a year within walking distance of Emerson's house ; he named it Dove Cottage, though they also called it Concordia Cottage.

His failure to make the National Union brand a genuine party made Johnson an independent during his presidency, though he was supported by Democrats and later rejoined the party briefly as a Democratic Senator from Tennessee in 1875 until his death that year.

In the year 883, though there is some debate over the year, King Alfred, because of his support and his donation of alms to Rome, received a number of gifts from the Pope Marinus.

Thus, if every historian were to claim that there was a solar eclipse in the year 1600, then though we might at first naively regard that as in violation of natural laws, we'd come to accept it as a fact.

To avoid the fall of Évora into the hands of Berber groups of the region, he ordered the destruction of its defensive towers and to lowered the walls, though a year later he decided to reconstruct it, giving its control to his ally Masud ibn Sa ' dun al-Surunbaqi.

His kinsman Gaius Julius Civilis was paraded in chains in Rome before Nero ; though he was acquitted by Galba, he was retained at Rome, and when he returned to his kin in the year of upheaval in the Roman Empire, 69, he headed a Batavian rebellion.

Beltane and Samhain were the leading terminal dates of the civil year in medieval Ireland, though the latter festival was the more important.

but such imports remain controversial even though in 2012 the EU was reported to import 30 million tons a year of GM crops.

Antony, though he had not laid down his imperium, was a fugitive and a rebel, without that shadow of a legal position which the presence of the consuls and senators had given him in the previous year.

After forming Hole in 1989, Love and bandmate Eric Erlandson had a relationship for over a year, though it was kept a secret.

Cicero expressed extreme pride not only in being a novus homo (" new man "; comparable to a " self-made man ") who became consul even though none of his ancestors had ever served as a consul, but also in having become consul " in his year ".

The dampness is compounded by frequent ( occurring 20 times per year ) plunges to at night, though thaws are frequent, with a few days per winter above.

After starting the season 15 – 35, though, the team had some success later in the year, going a respectable 30 – 28 in August and September as the youngsters became more experienced.

Like BBC1, the ITV network was officially broadcast in black and white ( though programmes were actually broadcast in colour as early as July that year for colour transmission testing and adjustment ) at this point so the episode was seen by most in black and white.

Caligula was briefly married to Junia Claudilla in 33, though she died in childbirth the following year.

During the same year, though, Caligula was criticized for executing people without full trials and for forcing his helper Macro to commit suicide.

Darwin was young and generally in good health, though six months previously he had been ill for a month near Valparaiso, but in 1837, almost a year after he returned to England, he began to suffer intermittently from a strange group of symptoms, becoming incapacitated for much of the rest of his life.

In the final lap of the 2001 Cracker Barrel Old Country Store 500, Harvick beat Jeff Gordon by. 006 seconds, the same margin that Earnhardt had won over Bobby Labonte at the same race a year prior, and the images of Earnhardt's longtime gas man, Danny " Chocolate " Myers, crying after the victory, Harvick's tire-smoking burnout on the frontstretch with three fingers held aloft outside the driver's window, and the Fox television call by Mike Joy, Larry McReynolds, and Darrell Waltrip, concluding with " Gordon got loose, but he ( Harvick ) is gonna get him though, it's Harvick!

As a freshman, he injured his knee and developed a leg infection which extended into his groin and which his doctor diagnosed as life threatening ; the doctor insisted that the leg be amputated but Dwight refused to allow it, and miraculously recovered, though he had to repeat his freshman year.

The new party contested the 1986 election even though competing parties remained illegal under national law until the next year.

" All three dioceses ( the other two were Würzburg and Buraburg ) were confirmed by Zachary the next year, though later Erfurt was brought into the diocese of Mainz.

The next year, the music directorship of the Kiyotaki shrine was transferred from Motomasa to Onnami.

That same year Motomasa died ; it has been speculated that he was murdered.

For a brief period each year, the rays of the sun are warm enough to melt some of the snows piled a mile deep at the base of the headwalls, and then the pinnacles glisten in the daytime at high noon, and billions of gallons of water begin their slow seepage under the glaciers and across the rockstrewn hanging valleys on their long, meandering journey to the sea -- running east past the sky-carving massifs of Gurla Mandhata and Kemchenjunga, then turning south and curling down through the jungles of Assam, past the Khasi Hills, and into Bengal, past Sirinjani and Madaripur, until the hard water of the melting snows mingles with the soft drainage of fields and at length fans out to meld with the teeming salt depths of the Bay of Bengal.

It was in the spring of the year when he took to his bed and Tessie and Alfred found out that they didn't know each other.

If the railroads, for example, regularly slaughtered 25,000 passengers each year, the high priests of the cult would have cause to tremble for their personal safety, for such a holocaust would excite demands for the hanging of every railroad president in the United States.

We hoped that its practitioners and teachers might be put on some sort of reserve list and called back for refresher courses each year or so.

Pool records reveal in detail the cost per mile and miles per gallon of each vehicle, the miles traveled in one year or three years, the periods when vehicle costs become excessive, and when cars should be traded for sound economies.

Middletown bases its claim on the general provision of the law that `` all rateable property, both tangible and intangible, shall be taxed to the owner thereof in the town in which such owner shall have had his actual place of abode for the larger portion of the twelve ( 12 ) months next preceding the first day of April in each year ''.

The President of the United States, pursuant to a Joint Resolution of Congress, has issued a proclamation each year since 1933 declaring May 22nd to be National Maritime Day.

The ideal girl -- possessed of talent, poise, intelligence, personality and beauty of face and figure -- is chosen each year to represent Rhode Island.

The Secretary shall make reports to the President and the Congress at the beginning of each regular session of the action taken or instituted by him under the provisions of this Act and of prospective action during the ensuing year.

The Armed Forces Epidemiological Board agreed to submit each month a report for one of its 12 commissions, so that each commission will report once a year on some phase of its work calculated to be of particular interest and value to medical officers of the Armed Forces.

Regardless of its unadjusted allotment, each State is guaranteed by law a minimum allotment each year equal to the allotment which it received in fiscal year 1954 -- increased by a uniform percentage of 5.4865771 which brings total 1954 allotments to all States up to $23,000,000.

For the year 2000 this means servicing ( A ) the protection requirements of a watershed producing at least 200 million acre-feet of water each year, ( B ) recreation and wildlife resources used each year by 635 million visitors, ( C ) a timber resource supporting an annual cut of 21 billion board feet, and ( D ) 60 million acres of rangelands.

The College also publishes each year The Report Of The Treasurer and a monthly newsletter entitled Carleton College Comments.

The Algol, the college annual, is published in the fall of each year.

Once you become an avocado fan, you will look forward to the season each year with eager anticipation.

Unlimited game bags are possible and legal in more than 40 states, on shooting preserves ( one of the newer phases of modern game-management ) for five and six months each year.