The Secretary General The past quarter century has seen a most dramatic reduction in extreme poverty.

It is the average annualized growth of US consumer spending over the past 14 quarters calculated in inflation adjusted terms from the first quarter of 2008 to the second quarter of 2011.

Coca cultivation has been slashed by a quarter in the past five years, and seizures of cocaine have almost doubled.

Based on the past pattern of payments, it is expected that over 400 million will be received during the final quarter of 2005.

Bartoli reached at least the quarter final stage at each of the four Grand Slams.

During the past quarter century, but especially over the five years leading up to 2008, the world seemed to revolve around the American consumer.

Both camps have stuck to their positions for at least a quarter century.

Today, the index is at its lowest level since the fourth quarter of 2001.

At least a quarter of the world's population lived in lower middle income countries.

Even with the dollar s decline and the resulting 25 rise in US exports over the past two years, the US still had an annualized trade deficit at the end of fourth quarter of 2007 of about 700 billion (5 of GDP).

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The latest data hint at such a possibility, with the tertiary sector (services) expanding at an 8.3 annual rate in the first quarter of this year the third consecutive quarter of acceleration and a half percentage point faster than the 7.8 first quarter gain recorded by the secondary sector (manufacturing and construction).

School begins at half past eight.

School begins at half past eight.

Second quarter German GDP has stalled after a surprisingly strong first quarter.

At the same time, the contribution from investment surged from 2.3 percentage points of GDP growth in the first quarter of 2013 to 5.9 percentage points in the second quarter.

Half of the governorates of the West Bank and Gaza has remained at the same levels of food insecurity, a quarter has become more food insecure while a quarter has improved.

Annualized real consumption growth over the subsequent eight quarter period from the third quarter of 2009 through the second quarter of 2011 averaged 2.1 .

We have about a quarter of a million in transit to those and other children, and then there are another quarter of a million more that are being ordered at this moment.

Former US Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan, the world s leading financial regulator of the past quarter century, seemed to have little faith in either regulators or the need for regulation.

I am pleased to present once again the Iraqi Government's view of the events of the past quarter, complementing the other reports that have been presented quarterly before this Council.

Quarter after quarter the macroeconomic news from the United States teaches the same lesson real GDP growth at a sustained rate of 3 per year is not enough to increase America's employment level.

The last quarter of 2010 brought a welcome change, with consumer spending rising at a 4 annual rate, enough to increase total real GDP by 3.1 from the third quarter to the fourth.

The glass is, at most, only one quarter full for most people, it is three quarters empty.

I suggest to Aramco to hold a ceremony at the Empty Quarter desert to mark its centennial.

In Palestine, unemployment remained high, at an estimated 28.6 per cent in the second quarter of 2004.

One way to measure the average stock holding period and its change over the past quarter century is to add up all holding periods of all investors at the end of the year and divide the total by a weighted average of the stockholders.

Over the past six years, the value of the trade weighted dollar has fallen by more than a quarter, as the US has continued to rack up historically unprecedented trade deficits.

At the same time, an estimated two billion people will move to cities in the next quarter century.

In the second quarter, the German economy shrank at an annualized, seasonally and calendar adjusted rate of 2 .

The Board is expected to consider these proposals at its next meeting in the fourth quarter of 2005.

Whereas most countries suffered negative growth in at least one quarter over the last two years, India s GDP grew by more than 6 throughout this period and by 7.9 in the last quarter of 2009.

For the past quarter century, a major agenda item for the international development organizations, such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, has been to bolster developing nations financial markets.

Orphans, whose number has increased sharply over the past quarter century as a result of wars, economic sanctions, and terrorism, are especially vulnerable to the cruelest type of physical and psychological violence.

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Growth in much of the world during the past quarter century has been slower than in the previous 25 years, despite more rapid growth in East Asia, India, and a few other countries.

At the end of the 19th century, there was no further free land for development in the Christian Quarter.

The renminbi s rise over the past month can be attributed to greater global liquidity since the start of the third quarter, as policymakers have responded to the eurozone s sovereign debt crisis and stagnating output.

Consultations will be undertaken late in the third quarter 2006, with the United Nations Foundation to develop appropriate sanctions, and to inform and consult implementing partners at a focal points meeting in the third or fourth quarter 2006.

First, there was a 2.2 annualized decline from the first quarter of 2008 through the second quarter of 2009.

Data collection took place during the first quarter in nine countries, with two more beginning in the second quarter.

Yet it may also represent the regime s success at co opting dissatisfaction with a quarter century of radical Islamist rule.

At Credit Suisse and Barclays, for example, more than a quarter of shareholders rejected the pay package proposed by management.