The first half of April marks the initial leg of a new credit cycle.
ARGENTINE footballers are a fractious lot: their refusal to play big fixtures in the first half of May marked their eighth strike since 1971.
In the tempestuous latter half of August — marked, in India, by a prominent activist's public fast, pop-up protests, debates about corruption, and even debates about the debates about corruption — the Congress Party seemed to flounder like a dinghy in a maelstrom.
Bill de Blasio, the New York City public advocate, raised $761,000 in contributions during the first half of this year, marking the second consecutive filing period that he has outraised his likely rivals in the 2013 race for mayor, according to reports filed Monday with the city's Campaign Finance Board.
The first half of 2007 marked an uncomfortable period for Mr Mundell.
The number of tattoo markings recorded as a percentage of the total number of females collected has been fairly constant since 2002 but there was some reduction in the effort to look for markings on dogs collected in 2004, when only half the usual number of marks were recorded.
The European Union's competition commissioner, Neelie Kroes, threatened to take action over what could have been a breach of EU competition rules.Renault already makes just over half of the current, mark three Clio at its factory at Bursa in Turkey.
The alternative, advocated by, among others, Knight Vinke, an activist investor, would be to cut loose Household, which HSBC does not legally guarantee and which accounts for just over half of the additional mark-to-market losses.
The translator, Ahmed F. Mehalba, 32, was arrested at Logan Airport in Boston in September 2003 on suspicion of espionage after federal investigators seized more than 100 compact discs that contained 725 government documents, about half of which were marked "secret," prosecutors said.
On Tuesday, they took up nearly half of the courtroom, marked by special badges doled out to make sure they got a seat inside the overflowing galley.
