• In fact, the conservatives were in the minority in the last term's biggest case, when the justices struck down President Bush's military tribunal system.

    NPR: A Newly Conservative Supreme Court?

  • We think providing expansive tax cuts to the wealthy -- which we did in the last term and added tremendously to our debt and resulted in this President inheriting a massive deficit and debt in 2009 -- probably not the best approach.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • The 22-year-old, who moved to Stamford Bridge from Norwegian side Lyn Oslo in 2006, impressed in the holding role in the Blues midfield last term.

    CNN: Ancelotti expects Drogba to stay at Chelsea

  • He took Ipswich to 14th in the Championship table in his first season and eighth last term but departs with the club in ninth place and 12 points off the play-off zone.

    BBC: Magilton sacked as Ipswich boss

  • Given that this was Villa's 44th game of the season - three more than they played in the whole of last term - O'Neill decision to rest his key men was understandable and the hosts responded with a bright start.

    BBC: Aston Villa 2-2 Stoke

  • Consumer spending also remains under pressure, due in part to the fall in real-term earnings over the last year as wage increases stagnate and prices continue to rise.

    BBC: UK business confidence 'improving'

  • Hoggard was Yorkshire's leading wicket-taker in the County Championship last term.

    BBC: Hoggard offered contract at Leics

  • Johnson enjoyed arguably his best season in the Premier League last term as he established himself as England's first-choice right-back and attracted the interest of bigger clubs.

    CNN: Johnson poised to complete Liverpool move

  • In the last quarter short term rates stabilized at a slightly higher level and the net interest margin (the difference between the interest they pay to depositors and that which they are paid for them) widened.

    FORBES: Charles Schwab Is No Prize For Value Investors

  • The economy was contracting -- or had contracted in the previous quarter, the last quarter of President Bush's term in office, by nearly 9 percent.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • "Clearly the rise in energy prices in the short term will add to the squeeze we've seen in the last year or so and is more likely to discourage consumer spending, but we've also seen a rise in asset prices and share prices, " Mr King said.

    BBC: NEWS | Business | Bank hints at future UK rate rise

  • Managing director Bill Gross told the Financial Times last week that austerity in the short term was not the way to produce growth.

    BBC: Austerity: Is the European Union changing tack?

  • Ms Carr, a teaching assistant in the girls' class last term, was arrested on suspicion of murdering them.

    BBC: Agony of Holly and Jessica's parents

  • The deterioration last week in some of the short-term technical studies like the McClellan Oscillator was consistent with a weakening stock market.

    FORBES: Apple Reverses, Stocks Top Out

  • Magilton took Ipswich to 14th in the Championship table in his first season and eighth last term but was sacked in April after failing to secure a play-off spot.

    BBC: QPR appoint Magilton as manager

  • Vettel also set a record for the most pole positions in a single season last term, starting 15 races from the front of the grid.

    CNN: Red Bull chief Horner: 'Vettel can still improve'

  • The central state of Kogi already has a governor-elect following elections in December, as the sitting governor was serving his last term in office.

    BBC: Nigeria's Supreme Court dismisses five governors

  • By entrepreneurs I mean specifically the narrow class the term has come to define in the last decade: specifically technology entrepreneurs who start companies to build products or services with some sort of technological innovation at its core, with the Internet playing an important role in the venture.

    FORBES: Entrepreneurs are the New Labor: Part I

  • After all, the four-year presidential cycle has an unusually consistent pattern of the market experiencing most of its serious corrections in the first two years of a presidential term and most often making a substantial recovery in the last two years.

    FORBES: The Truth About Presidential Election Years And Stocks

  • Longevity or "L" is the last term in the Drake Equation, a formula designed to estimate the number of communicative civilizations in our galaxy.

    CNN: Should we fear space aliens?

  • In her last term with the government, she served for nine years as the U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of New York (located in Manhattan).

    FORBES: What Should The SEC Expect From Mary Jo White?

  • Karl Rove has been there from the beginning, and the president is in the last days of a second term and he doesn't really need his political guru anymore.

    NPR: Karl Rove Leaves, Romney Wins Iowa Straw Poll

  • So when iconic liberal Democratic Senator Ted Kennedy died in late 2009, the state upended the national political scene by electing Scott Brown, a likeable centrist Republican, to fill in the last two years of his term.

    BBC: US election: Six crucial Senate races

  • The Dow Jones industrial average soared more than 300 points in afternoon trading following what many believe to be a bail-out for the financial sector, allowing breathing room for investment banks to clear large leveraged-loan deals from their books and easing the ability of corporations to borrow in the short-term debt markets, both of which had basically frozen up in the last few weeks.

    FORBES: Christmas In September

  • Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin infamously stepped down in June 2009 before the end of her last term and last year, former Senator John Ensign stepped down from his seat in Nevada.

    FORBES: DeMint Steps Down From Senate in Midst Of Tax Debate

  • The lease to manage shooting and fishing rights on Raasay could remain in the hands of crofters long term, the environment minister said last week.

    BBC: South Ayrshire Stalking defends Raasay role

  • Although the price rise generated a short-term rise in profits last summer, in the first nine months of this year profits fell by 95% from a year earlier as customers walked away, and as the company bore the cost of an aggressive international expansion.

    BBC: Netflix takes poison pill to ward off Icahn takeover

  • "The first two years of a president's term are sluggish, and in the last two, things start to roll, " says Slothower, who believes the Federal Reserve has the key to unlocking growth: juicing the money supply.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • This alignment of our international effort was on full display at the NATO summit in Lisbon last month where the coalition committed to a long-term partnership with Afghanistan while laying out a plan for the Afghan government to take responsibility for its own security.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing on Afghanistan-Pakistan Annual Review

  • Citizens United was argued near the end of the term, in late March. (The last arguments are usually at the end of April, and the decisions are released by the end of June.) So there was not a lot of time for the Justices to reach a consensus.

    NEWYORKER: Money Unlimited

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