In his bestseller Moneyball, author Michael Lewis chronicles how Beane was able to field a consistently winning team using advanced analytics to gain insights into players that other richer teams had overlooked.

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Ironically, the potential benefits consumers are likely to gain from advanced metering technologies seem to shrink daily.

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In the U.S., the GDP for the third quarter was revised to a gain of 2.5% in the Preliminary release from 2.0% in the Advanced data.

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