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New quality controls cut customer complaints in half from the previous model.

The London-based HSBC said Monday that its net income doubled in the first half from the previous year.

Turnstone entered the fourth quarter of 2000 expecting another gain in revenue, but when the final numbers were in, sales fell nearly by half from the previous quarter, to $29 million.

The Swiss pharmaceutical company Roche said yesterday that its net income rose 3percentt in the first half from the previous year, to 2.5 billion Swiss francs ($1.95 billion) from 2.43 billion Swiss francs ($1.63 billion).

At HSBC, a big British bank that burned its fingers playing with consumer finance in America, loan losses fell by 40% in the first half from the previous six months.

As investments in startups during the lucrative 1990's tech boom are no longer included, ten-year returns slide to lower and lower levels, dropping by nearly half from the previous quarter.

For these volumetric measurements, the endocardial border was traced in four equally spaced orthogonal pairs of images selected from the 3D reconstruction, that is, each one twenty-two and one-half degrees from the previous measurement.

Now, 19 of the country's 34 provinces are opium growers, also an increase, and overall production was up by almost half — 49 percent — from the previous year, according to the report, officially released on Wednesday.

The pace of financial contributions to Mr. Rangel, a fund-raising powerhouse for the Democratic Party who is chairman of the influential House Ways and Means Committee, has dropped by nearly half this year from the previous election cycle, according to the most recent campaign finance disclosure statements.

Starting from the origin, the DNA strand is read from the 5' to 3', with each base generating a new point in the X-Y plane one half way from the previous point to the corner associated with that base [Fig. 1, panel B].

On a night when "NBC Nightly News With Brian Williams" was pre-empted on the West Coast by the opening game of the National Football League season, Ms. Couric's chief competition, "World News With Charles Gibson" on ABC, was seen by an estimated 6.6 million, down about a half-million from the previous evening.