The data was released weeks ahead of a meeting on Nov. 2-3 oFederal Reserveve policy makers, who many economists and analysts expect will announce a new round of quantitative easing.
Mr. Cross, the British official, was released weeks after his abduction when, in exchange, the Canadian government agreed to grant his kidnappers safe passage to Cuba, with the approval of Fidel Castro.
At the same time, autism itself is being redefined: the newest edition of the country's manual for mental disorders, released weeks ago, collapsed some categories of autism, including Asperger syndrome, under the umbrella of "autism spectrum disorder".
In a widely circulated online video he released weeks before the revolts broke out in Tunisia and then Egypt, Mr. ElBaradei bluntly told the Mubarak government that it faced its "last chance," predicting "there will be violence".
The race generated enormous interest in California and around the world because of the novelty of a recall and the star power of Mr. Schwarzenegger, whose most recent movie, "Terminator 3," was released weeks before the race began.
Of the 406 real arrests, 153 had been released weeks before the police announced the success of the operation: 106 of them without any charge at all and 47 after being cautioned for minor offences.
