Sales soar for Iraq study
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It isn't just politicians who want to read "The Iraq Study Group Report."
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CHICAGO, Sept. 21 -- The money spent on one day of the Iraq war could buy homes for almost 6,500 families or health care for 423,529 children, or could outfit 1.27 million homes with renewable electricity, according to the American Friends Service Committee, which displayed those statistics on la...
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Orders to US factories were far stronger in October than analysts expected, but almost all of the gain came from greater demand for military aircraft.
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"Currently there are some 445,000 individuals on the payrolls of Iraq's Interior and Defense ministries. Based on recent decisions by Prime Minister Maliki, the number of Iraq security forces will grow further by the end of this year, possibly by as much as 40,000."
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Washington -- The US force in Iraq is about to expand to its highest level of the war. The Pentagon says the force of 138,000 today will swell to about 150,000 by the middle of next month.
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Global military spending rose 3.5 percent last year to $1.2 trillion as U.S. costs for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan mounted, a European research body said on Monday in an annual study.
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Online advertising spending in Britain  surged 40.3 percent to 917.2 million pounds ($1.72 billion) in  the first half of 2006 compared to last year, giving it a  market share of 10.5 percent, new data showed on Wednesday.
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Business surges for online merchants selling Iraq's newly minted currency, as speculators' optimism about the country's future trumps the steady stream of bad news coming out of Baghdad. By Joanna Glasner.
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New statistics provided by Iraqi officials appear to mirror the geographic pattern of the American troop increase.
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As gun prices soar in Iraq, army and police weapons from Iraqi state armories are, in turn, showing up on the black market.
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From the jumble of November sales data, inspiration emerges.
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Attacks in Iraq on U.S.-led forces, local security personnel and civilians have surged 22 percent to record levels, the Pentagon said in its latest quarterly report on Iraq published on Monday.
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Iraq is to invite bids for two telephone licences, saying it wants to significantly boost nationwide coverage over the next decade.
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Online retail sales overseas continue to show significant growth, according to the latest figures released by the US Department of Commerce.
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British retail sales rose much more than expected in November, driven by strength across nearly all categories running into the key Christmas holiday shopping season.
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Retail sales, helped by sizzling activity in auto showrooms, jumped by 1.2 percent in December, providing a solid finish to a year in which sales climbed at the fastest pace since 1999. The increase pushed total spending for the month to a seasonally adjusted $349.4 billion, the Commerce Department said.
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BELGRADE, Aug 31 (IPS) - The full-page ad last week surprised many Serbian  readers. On sale were 15 military office blocks, warehouses and  other installations in five cities at a starting price of 1.8  million dollars.