Another good sign: The positive results come from both developed markets as well as emerging markets.

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Another good sign: Venture capitalists are investing in hotspot companies, and computer industry analysts are touting hotspot access.

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Another good sign, he says, is the emergence of strategic corporate buyers.

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Another good sign, cargo-handling is being transferred to the private sector in a sweeping reform of ports, a union stronghold.

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Another good sign is the Senate passed a measure in December that would clear the way for Permanent Normal Trade Relations with Russia.

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Furthermore, results of the Dutch elections was another good sign because it gave an unexpected vote of confidence in the euro, with voters rejecting eurosceptic candidates on the far right and far left.

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On Tuesday there was yet another sign of good things to come: Whirlpool (NYSE: WHR) upped its earnings guidance for the year.

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The wages were good too, another sign of it potentially being such a boiler room.

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An excellent interpretation of a classic design in another watch is often a sign of good value.

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Another shaka sign in downtown Honolulu gives a visitor a good sense of how Christmas here is a bit different from the mainland.

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All this is a good sign, for it confirms the position in which a contemporary writer ought to stand toward another, greater, writer he is bent on imitating.

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