But March's sales slide was not as bad as expected after the sales disaster in February, and it could be that, war and all, car sales have bottomed out.

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You can see how easy it is to slide from just a Bad Wizard to an out-and-out Witch: where you intentionally make the numbers work beyond what the law allows, for your own nefarious gain.

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The slide in deflation is meanwhile bad news for retail companies struggling to keep pace with consumers' collective expectations of a deflationary environment by rigorously cutting prices.

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If you slide your observation period forward or back, those bad returns often disappear fast.

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If more bad news from Asia causes equity prices in the United States and Europe to slide, the scene would be set for a slowdown spreading far beyond Asia.

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