Operating profit was up 26 percent to 111 . 38 billion pesetas ( dlrs 884 million ) compared with 88 . 41 billion pesetas ( dlrs 701 . 6 million ) for the first half period a year ago.
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Bass said Holiday Inn, which owns 1, 977 hotels in more than 60 countries, lifted operating profit by 14.6 percent in U . S . dollar terms, after adjusting for an extra week in the first-half period this year.
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After a half period that saw good scoring chances at both ends, the Islanders jumped on the scoreboard when Zigmund Palffy circled the net and slipped a pass out to Green, who feathered a shot over the horizontal Montreal goalie.
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Bass said Holiday Inn, which owns 1, 977 hotels in more than 60 countries, lifted operating profit by 14 . 6 percent in U . S . dollar terms, after adjusting for an extra week in the first-half period this year.
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Never ones to give in to defeat _ despite day-long special teams failures and an extended second-half period of poor play _ the Sooners used a late charge to knock off Alabama 37-27 in a matchup of two of college football's most storied powers.
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Over the following half period, the secondary star would be in sky for a progressively decreasing part of night ( and increasing part of day ) until at the next conjunction the secondary star would only be in sky in daytime near the primary star.
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The Islanders played two and a half periods with five defensemen after Rich Pilon injured his knee ( four, if you factor in that Bryan Berard, who somehow scored a goal, was playing with a bad sinus condition that rendered him fatigued 20 seconds into every shift ).
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Virtually all proposals were based on the seconds pendulum, in which each swing ( a half period ) takes one second, which is about a meter ( 39 inches ) long, because by the late 17th century it had become a standard for measuring gravity ( see previous section ).
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Note that the half-period ratio can be thought of as a simple number, namely, one of the parameters to elliptic functions, or it can be thought of as a function itself, because the half periods can be given in terms of the elliptic modulus or in terms of the nome.
