October Contracts Decrease 9 Percent

Targeted News Service;  November 24, 2008 ;     346 words ......reported construction starts decreased 9 percent in October. In addition, during the first...of 2008, total construction was down 15 percent compared with a year ago. "As shown by...Nonresidential building construction decreased 9 percent in October. In the commercial category...

INDIA'S ECONOMIC GROWTH FALLS FURTHER TO 7.6 PERCENT

The Hindustan Times;  November 28, 2008 ;     271 words ......economic growth has fallen further to 7.6 percent for the second quarter of this fiscal...Friday. The country's growth was 7.9 percent during the first quarter of the fiscal (April-June) and 9.2 percent during the second quarter of 2007-08...

Antitrust at the turn of the twenty-first century: A view from the middle

St. John's Law Review;  July 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ...ANTITRUST AT THE TURN OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: A VIEW FROM THE MIDDLE^ It...when a manufacturer with four percent of the production market acquired...distributor with less than two percent of the nation's retail sales...share of approximately eight percent was blocked. These ...

LUMINA GRANTS TO HELP PURDUE RETAIN, GRADUATE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  December 21, 2006 ;     700+ words ......statewide efforts to help Twenty-first Century Scholars prepare for...university graduates 50 percent to 55 percent of all scholars in...graduation rate of nearly 72 percent," Koch said. "By having...continuation of the Twenty-first Century Scholars ...

Music and Education in the Twenty-First Century: A Retrospective.

Arts Education Policy Review;  January 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......have served as bookends to my thinking about the twenty-first century. The older of these stories is Lentil, one of Robert...is a 1960s man who takes a one-way trip to the twenty-first century, where he finds a society so alien that he becomes...instrument that he has already ...

TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY SCHOLARS PROGRAM NEARS APPLICATION DEADLINE

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  May 29, 2007 ;     497 words ......counties to enroll in the Twenty-first Century Scholars Program, yet only 67 percent of eligible eighth-graders...Scott St., Lafayette. Twenty-first Century Scholars staff will be...site coordinator for the Twenty-first Century Scholars Program at ...

Spain's broadband subscriber base increases 15.8 percent in July to reach...

XDSL News;  October 1, 2008 ;     130 words ......subscriber base of Spain increased 15.8 percent in July when compared to June, increasing...its top position in Spain, grabbing 76 percent of the total subscribers in July, while...cable firms had to be content with 13.7 percent and 10 percent, respectively. The report...

INDIA'S ECONOMIC GROWTH FALLS FURTHER TO 7.6 PERCENT (ROUNDUP)

The Hindustan Times;  November 28, 2008 ;     529 words ......India's economic growth declined to 7.6 percent for the second quarter of this fiscal...manufacturing. The country's growth was 7.9 percent during the first quarter of the fiscal (April-June) and 9.2 percent during the second quarter of 2007-08...

97 PERCENT INDIAN KIDS WILL GO TO SCHOOL BY 2015: UNESCO

The Hindustan Times;  November 25, 2008 ;     332 words ......enrollment rate (NER) of more than 97 percent by 2015, the Education for All (EFA) Global...on track to achieve NER in excess of 97 percent by 2015," the report said. As per the...education in India has increased from 39 percent in 1999 to 43 percent in 2006. With 7...

Lebanon's Second Republic: Prospects for the Twenty-first Century.(Book...

Middle East Quarterly;  March 22, 2004 ;     496 words ...Lebanon's Second Republic: Prospects for the Twenty-first Century. Edited by Karl C. Ellis. Gainesville: University Press...political paralysis. The country's prospects for the twenty-first century would appear to be bleak. Not so, say the contributors...pipes for drinking water. ...

THE WHITE HOUSE: President names Marc H. Morial as a me member of...

M2 Presswire;  October 11, 1999 ;     332 words ......Clinton names Marc H. Morial as a member of the Twenty-First Century Workforce Commission (C)1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS...Orleans Mayor Marc H. Morial as a member of the Twenty-First Century Workforce Commission. Mr. Marc H. Morial has served...city's police department, reducing crime ...

The turbulent environment of public personnel administration: responding...

Public Personnel Management;  June 22, 1991 ;     700+ words ......changes expected to occur in the workplace of the twenty-first century. The nature of work, the demographics of the...government workplace, by the beginning of the twenty-first century. To determine the extent to which local governments...Factors Affecting The Nature of Work in the ...

Political agenda for the twenty-first century

Journal of Political and Military Sociology;  January 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ......differences will define much of the political agenda of the twenty-first century. As social, economic, and political processes are globalized...United States shrank from almost twenty-five to about two percent. The migration of labor from farming was not only physical...the world and will command ...

KEY EQUITIES INDEX SHEDS 5.01 PERCENT (WEEKLY MARKET ROUNDUP)

The Hindustan Times;  November 22, 2008 ;     545 words ......second consecutive week, with a key index losing 5.01 percent after the 5.8 percent fall the week before to close below the psychologically...closed Friday at 8,915.21, down 470.21 points or 5.01 percent from its close Friday previous week at 9,385.42...

Focal Point On Breastfeeding: Breastfeeding and Parenting In The...

International Journal of Childbirth Education;  December 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......ON BREASTFEEDING: Breastfeeding and Parenting in the Twenty-First Century: My Hopes One cannot predict the future. The best one...which they embark on their parenting adventures in the twenty-first century. a) All books, magazines, pamphlets, posters, and other...choose not to ...