Unlike others who lament black history's segregation into a month and therefore seek to get rid of the celebration, Holder sees the need for weaving black history into the fabric of ordinary American life and offering our citizens a critical tool of self-inventory while broadening the horizon of our nation's self-awareness around racial issues.

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While Rent the Runway does exhaustive quality control to ensure the absolute perfection of their rental inventory, their product is as much an about self-empowerment as it is about a physical product.

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Bruce has a separate inventory-management system, which his four in-house programmers now are lashing to his new self-service register consoles.

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Self-reliance is high on the list of traits generally associated with manliness according to the Male Role Norms Inventory, the most commonly used measure of masculinity.

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"We burned off quite a bit of inventory due to the cash for clunkers, but the demand side is still a shelf of its former self, " says Matt Lloyd, chief investment strategist at Advisors Asset Management.

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