This week alone saw a bankruptcy filing from a New York-based toy retailer, FAO Schwarz, more store closures and 37, 000 job losses at a bankrupt discount retailer, Kmart, and poor same-store sales growth from Sainsbury's itself.
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Excluding subsidized housing, housing sales rose 20.7% from a week earlier to 312, 000 square meters in Shanghai alone last week, according to Shanghai Deovolente Realty Co.
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Some argue that using farmland for ethanol pushes up food prices internationally (world wheat prices rose 25% this week alone, perhaps as a side-effect of America's ethanol programme).
His attempts this week to explain that Viag has a strong future alone left investors scratching their heads.
Obviously, there are a number of issues that will surface throughout just this week alone that are also on the lame duck calendar.
The new series of stand-alone episodes will introduce a new character each week, and its viewers will decide which one stays for the following season.
America is not alone in having a pensions problem, as this week's strikes in France demonstrate.
"One of the critical issues in poverty is not money alone, " he said at a breakfast last week at Cabrini.
For example, you may be working on putting out a fire and therefore unable to think beyond next week, let alone strategically.
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When Geert Wilders goes on trial this week in the Netherlands, he will stand alone before a Dutch court.
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The latter was the best-selling vinyl act after The Beatles, selling 36, 000 albums in the U.S. alone (for a full list of the releases available this week, click here).
But its markets took a tumble this week, with the Nikkei index losing 4.1% on Tuesday alone.
There has been a surge of infections recently with an estimated 55, 000 cases in the past week alone.
For that reason alone, the government deserves a cheer for publishing a white paper this week setting out its second stage of reforms.
As former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Keith Payne, who headed up the U.S. delegation to those talks, pointed out to a Capitol Hill audience last week, his explicit instructions were not to discuss (let alone agree to) limits of any kind on our anti-missile capabilities.
Alcoa, but its going to be a gauntlet for investors as there are more than 1, 100 companies reporting results this week alone.
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Many of Dewey's U.S. offices were closed or nearly empty in the past week, with 433 people laid off in New York alone, according to a notice filed with the state Labor Department.
He has slipped to No. 79, but a win Sunday would take care of that, and runner-up alone at least should get him into the top 50 and earn a spot at Doral next week.
So we did have a few encouraging reports this week, but were they enough to offset the negative reports of the week, let alone the deluge of negative reports of previous weeks?
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