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Excluding the IP R&D write-off that we recorded earlier this year, which is not deductible for income tax purposes, our effective tax rate for the year was approximately 32. 5\% compared to 33. 8\% in 2007.

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  1. noun The period of time during which Earth completes a single revolution around the sun, consisting of 365 days, 5 hours, 49 minutes, and 12 seconds of mean solar time. In the Gregorian calendar the year begins on January 1 and ends on December 31 and is divided into 12 months, 52 weeks, and 365 or 366 days. Also called calendar year.
  2. noun A period approximately equal to a year in other calendars.
  3. noun A period of approximately the duration of a calendar year: We were married a year ago.

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  • Smith now settled in Edinburgh accordingly with an assured income of L900 a year, and L900 a year was a comparatively princely revenue in the Scottish capital at a time when a Lord of Session had only L700 a year, and a professor in the best chair in the University seldom made as much as L300. —  Life of Adam Smith
  • Almost two thirds of people expected to clear their Christmas expenditure by the end of January last year, according to research from Sainsbury's Finance, but the reality for others this year is the borrowing behind their Christmas cheer will continue to be a depressing worry far into 2009. —  Daily Financial News
  • Marking its 11th year, the event this year is adding internship opportunities to its line-up by pairing up with www. buffalointerns.com, an internship clearinghouse initiative supported by UB that lists internship opportunities for Western New York college students. —  Buffalo Business News - Local Buffalo News | Business First of Buffalo
  • Ahmed Al-Arbeed, Dana Gas Upstream Executive Director, highlighted some of the key business achievements during the past year: 'One of the most notable achievements for the year was the delivery of first gas within a record time of 15 months in our major project in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq with our partner Crescent Petroleum, which resulted in an increase of over 50\% in our gross operated volumes. —  Iraq Updates - Latest News
  • "There's no specific reason as to why this year was any different from last year or the year before -- besides that it's just a natural fluctuation in the data," said Darcy Whiteside, spokesman for Alberta Sustainable Resource Development. —  The Money Times - finance news, lifestyle, markets, investment, personal finance, banking, retirement planning
 

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  1. Middle English yere, from Old English gēar; see yēr- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English yeer, yer, ʒer, from Anglo-Saxon geár gēr (plural geár) = Old Saxon jār, gēr = OFries. jār, jēr = Middle Dutch jaer, Dutch jaar, jār = Low German jaar = Old High German Middle High German jār, German jahr = Icelandic ār = Swedish år = Danish aar = Gothic (Moesogothic) jēr, year; prob. orig. ‘spring,’ the opening of the year, = O Bulgarian jarŭ, spring, = Greek ὠ̄ρος, a season, year, ὤρα, season, spring, year, hour, = Zend yāre, a year. From the Greek ὤρα comes ult. English hour, which is thus a doublet of year: see hour. Hence ult. yore.
 

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