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Select reasons why the housing sector helped the New York - New Jersey region fare better than the nation during the recent downturn include:

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«During this recession, the housing sector contributed less volatility to the regional economy than it did in much of the nation,» Mr. Dudley added.

Four months into the year, the nation has lost far more retail jobs than it had by the same time during each of the past seven years.

Of the many shortcomings of the pre-Fed currency and banking system, none struck sincere reform proponents of all kinds as being in more dire need of correction than the tendency of the nation's bank reserves to flow into the coffers of a handful of New York banks during seasons apart from the harvest, combined with the annual (and occasionally mad) harvest - time scramble for those same reserves.

In terms of a global picture, the EU is even further along than the US by 20 or 30 years, where you wont find a single advanced northern European nation that would for ANYONE that goes on about «God» (unlike the US, which seems to require it during elections)... you'd get laughed off the election circuit.

During our conversation, he spent more time decrying rioting and calling for calm and prayer than lamenting the modern - day lynching by law enforcement of innocent black bodies that are piling up across the nation.

It might be a bit of a stretch to say that during those periods of silence nobody was seeking him, but it might be true about God speaking more on an individual basis than a nation wide level.

More than 2,500 years ago, in the bright of day, somewhere in a large Middle Eastern city, the king of a small nation strips down to his underclothes during a religious ceremony and dances to the rhythms of tambourines, castanets and cymbals punctuated by the melody of lyres, harps and other guitarlike instruments.

During his period of independence from the Nation of Islam nothing influenced Malcolm more than his travels abroad.

People have to look at from where a nation is coming from and moving towards rather than judge where they are at present — if you took a snapshot of countries like the USA around 1865 - 1880 or during the race riots or peace marches of the 60's you'd come away with a view of America as being an oppressive country (at least in the south)-- there is not a single thing happening in China that hasn't happened in the US or Britain as well your just looking at a single timeline while making a judgment.

(While there are some differences, more than 70 percent of Canadian regularly watch «American TV» during the prime time hours, and the media environments in the two nations are essentially the same.)

G. K. Chesterton's famous description of the United States as «a nation with the soul of a church» was never more apt than during the 2000 presidential campaign.

Indeed, everything about Moss — ambition, talent, trouble and talk — leaves the impression that he is bigger than Marshall, that he is the kind of show - time player churned out yearly by Miami or Nebraska, capable of dazzling the nation on Saturday and causing his coach headaches during the week.

Au Pair in America is the nation's first recognized au pair program, here in the US, and during the last 30 years, they provided host families with more than 90000 au pairs.

During annual spring testing, more than 200,000 students in grades three to eight opt out in the nation's largest such boycott.

Open Secrets, a project of the nonprofit Center for Responsive Politics, ranks the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association — the nation's largest teachers unions — as the 9th and 11th most generous givers to Democrats out of more than 18,000 super PACs during the 2016 election cycle.

«New York City may be more hospitable to Russian businessmen than during the Cold War,» U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said in a statement, «but my office and the FBI remain vigilant to the illegal intelligence - gathering activities of other nations.»

Child poverty was cut back at a scale and pace which was simply better than any other industrial nation during that period - even if Labour missed its 2010 interim target.

However, the bureau estimated that more than twice as many people left Suffolk County for other parts of the nation than left Nassau during the one - year time period.

According to the United Nations's Food and Agriculture Organization, overall tropical deforestation rates this decade are 8.5 percent higher than during the 1990s

By comparison, during the U.S. Civil War's Battle of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania in 1863, roughly 150,000 soldiers fought (less than 0.5 % of the divided nation's population).

The finding was bad enough: During the last two decades, the population of wild chimpanzees and gorillas in the West African nations of Gabon and the Republic of the Congo has declined by more than half.

Nevadans like Democratic Senator Harry Reid, who has doggedly opposed the Yucca Mountain repository, say it makes more sense to leave such waste where it is than to risk transporting it across the nation's public highways and rail system, during which accidents or even terrorist attacks could expose untold numbers of Americans to radioactivity.

Pinker disagrees, asserting that many nonstate societies have suffered higher rates of violent deaths than states have, even during the latter nations» especially bloody world wars.

Today nearly 50 million people in the U.S. are alive because of various forms of artificial organ therapy, and one in every five people older than 65 in developed nations is very likely to benefit from organ replacement technology during the remainder of their lives.

My favorite Christmas getaway is St. Augustine, the Nation's oldest city and a Florida wonderland during the holiday season when more than 3 million white lights reflect the city's 450 - year history.

Catherine O It's been less than a month since the nation began speculating just how Sasha and Malia Obama's teenage milestones will play out during their

Most of the announces were for VR games, with the PlayStation Nation mostly directed to games releasing this year or in early 2018 rather than the years - distant stuff Sony normally throws at us during E3.

The nation's Catholic schools appear more successful than public schools at closing the achievement gap between advantaged and disadvantaged 8th - grade students, according to a study released here last week during the annual convention of the National Catholic Educational Association.

The U.S. template succeeded during the first half of the 20th century and for some time after, performing better than those of other nations.

If this annual pattern is allowed to continue, 13 million students will drop out of school during the next decade at a cost to the nation of more than $ 3 TRILLION.

Utah's last - in - nation spending on students fell even further Education» Analysis shows state's schools took bigger hit than most during recession.

The rate of progress on the National Assessment of Educational Progress, the nation's report card, was actually higher, both over all and for specific demographic groups, during the decade before No Child Left Behind than after it was passed.

November was the second month in a row that the nation's largest airlines reported no flights with tarmac delays of more than three hours, while the carriers reported only a slight increase in the rate of canceled flights during the month, according to the Air Travel Consumer Report released today by the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT).

However, those can still be enough to provide more than just a glimpse of how the various space program unfolded or what it was like for the highly competitive space programs between the two warring nations, the US and USSR, during the height of the Cold War.

The nation's economic output grew at an even faster rate during July, August and September than the government initially estimated, giving the economy its strongest six - month performance in more than a decade.

In 2012, the new grant program will help 65 non-profit spay / neuter clinics around the nation provide high - quality, affordable spay / neuter surgeries for more than 23,000 cats and pit bull terriers during February and August — ultimately reducing the homeless pet population by tens of thousands of at - risk cats and dogs that would otherwise wind up in shelters because of unplanned litters, said Susana Della Maddalena, executive director of

The AKC released its 2009 registration statistics today during a press conference in New York City, and they show the German shepherd overtook the Yorkshire terrier last year to become the second most popular breed in the nation for the first time in more than three decades.

This unprecedented exhibition gathers together almost fifty captivating film, video, and immersive installations created during the past twenty - five years by more than three dozen artists from nearly twenty nations, filling the galleries of the 1905 Building and its Sculpture Court as well as the Gallery for New Media and the Auditorium.

For the Jewish nation, there is probably no better time to reflect on one's place in nature and the health of the environment than during Sukkoth, the Festival of Booths or the Jewish harvest festival.

«What's really been exciting to me about this last 10 - year period is that it has made people think about decadal variability much more carefully than they probably have before,» said Susan Solomon, an atmospheric chemist and former lead author of the United Nations» climate change report, during a recent visit to MIT.

A recent report from the Brookings Institution concluded that «the domestic clean economy already employs some 2.7 million workers,» which is more than the fossil fuel industry.9 In addition, it noted that newer «cleantech» segments produced «explosive job gains» that «outperformed the nation during the recession» and that the clean economy is «manufacturing and export intensive.»

Last year, more than 200 nations, including the United States, China and India, agreed to cut greenhouse gas emissions during a historic accord in Paris.

This decline is one - third less than the decline experienced by the nation as a whole, which saw greenhouse gas emissions drop 9.3 percent during the same time period.

[120] The sharp acceleration in CO2 emissions since 2000 to more than a 3 % increase per year (more than 2 ppm per year) from 1.1 % per year during the 1990s is attributable to the lapse of formerly declining trends in carbon intensity of both developing and developed nations.

A 2009 United Nations Environment Programme report into ocean acidification projects that acidity of the seas will more than double in the next 40 years, a rate one hundred times faster than anything seen during the past 20 million years.

During the previous financial year, the insurer reached out to more than 400 new cities across the nation.

He adds that a lot of people had told him during his travel across the nation that they would prefer to see more concrete local issues, rather than heated and divisive national ones.

Join me in celebrating our nation's Community Health Centers, serving more than 24 million patients, during #NHCW17.

More than 40 countries and a host of foundations, nongovernmental organizations, businesses, health care workers» associations and academic institutions committed $ 40 billion in resources to improve the health and lives of women and children worldwide at the United Nations today during the launch of a new strategy released by UN Secretary General Ban Ki - moon.