• In the U.S. decades of market dominance have made Coke a low-growth staple: The ten-year compound annual unit-case growth in the U.S. is only 4%.

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  • With more than a hundred accredited diplomats, Iran's embassy in Managua - a massive compound surrounded by four-meter-high concrete walls lined with razor wire - is one of the largest diplomatic compounds in the world.

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  • In a surprise news release Oct. 18, Schering-Plough (nyse: SGP - news - people ) announced positive results for its home-brewed compound, precipitating a first big drop in Vertex shares--even though Schering isn't presenting any details at the liver meeting.

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  • Bancroft's succulent garden and is part of the 8-acre family compound, is well-tended, with mature plants and fruit-bearing trees.

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  • But the Pope's supporters will be hoping that by visiting Muslim holy sites - he was the first pontiff to go to the great compound of al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem - he will have improved the overall tone of relations between the Catholic Church and some at least of Islam's believers.

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  • The 27-year-old suffered a double compound leg fracture in the Robins' play-off defeat at Leeds last September and has not played since.

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  • In a surprise news release Oct. 18, Schering-Plough announced positive results for its home-brewed compound, precipitating a first big drop in Vertex shares--even though Schering isn't presenting any details at the liver meeting.

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  • At some outfit designated by three initials--DRG Systems, AZD Marketing, MLF Solutions--or at one of those compound-named firms with a stray capital letter in the middle: SignRave, MedScie, MerchanDesign.

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  • Sirna already has a collaboration with Allergan (nyse: AGN - news - people ) for its lead compound, a drug to treat age-related macular degeneration, a leading cause of blindness.

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  • Now, an 8-acre family compound and the adjoining 3-acre garden are all that remain.

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  • On a ridge near Sayan stands the unique Bambu Indah, a compound of 100-year-old royal Javanese houses.

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  • Lindh was captured by the Afghan Northern Alliance on November 25, 2001, and imprisoned in a compound in Mazar-e-Sharif, where he was questioned by CIA agent Johnny Michael Spann, who was killed in an uprising at the compound a short time later.

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  • This binding process stimulates production of a protein called interleukin-10 (IL-10) that acts as an anti-inflammatory compound and which helps keep the immune system's response to the infection in check.

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  • Gartner sees the wireless corporate network market growing at a compound annual rate of 18.4% from 2011 to 2016, and the market for high-speed fiber-optic Internet-access equipment growing at a compound annual rate of 12.1% from 2010 to 2014.

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  • In my lab days, I always wondered about the wisdom of using nonoxynol-9 as a spermatocide because we used to use a related compound, octoxynol-9 (better known to labbies as Triton X-100), to break open human epithelial cancer cells to examine the proteins inside them.

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  • The 747-room Shangri-La Hotel Singapore, located on a sprawling 15-acre compound on the western edge of the CBD, is a legendary stop for diplomats, CEOs and celebs escaping the bustle of the city.

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  • Eugenol (4-allyl-2-methoxyphenol) is a fragrant compound that is commonly contained in various sorts of plants, especially in spices and medicinal herbs.

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  • The Ted star is reportedly upsizing into a custom-built 33, 000-square foot compound in another nearby Platinum Triangle community, Beverly Park.

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  • According to information gathered by the Central Intelligence Agency, bin Laden was holed up on the third floor of a house in a one-acre compound just off Kakul Road in Bilal Town, a middle-class neighborhood less than a mile from the entrance to the academy.

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  • She and her husband, who is CEO of health-insurance firm Connected Health, worked with architect Mr. Justiss to design a seven-bedroom, seven-bathroom compound with three courtyards and two terraces.

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  • The main structure was a three-story building with few windows facing the outside of the compound, and a third-floor terrace had a seven-foot privacy wall, they said.

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  • But perhaps the most surprising Tiradentes tidbit is the presence of 10th-generation Cossack knifemakers, who have built a cutlery heaven in the manner of a 16th-century Kazak-style dacha compound just outside town.

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  • The challenges on the site are incredibly varied and include everything from a multinational food company looking for a "Reduced Fat Chocolate-Flavored Compound Coating" to an electronics firm trying to design a solar-powered computer.

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  • Bisphenol-A is also a very weak estrogen-like compound that binds weakly to a set of hormone receptors.

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  • On Friday morning, the colonel returned to the staging area, where his staff had set up a forward command post -- a tent and a series of antennas in the compound yard of an abandoned three-room house with barrel-vault ceilings made of mud brick.

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  • Since then, the federal student loan program has exploded, growing at an inflation-adjusted compound annual (real) rate of 7.7 percent between 1978-79 and 2009-10.

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  • Ivanishvili moved back to Georgia in 2003 and built a 108, 000-square-foot compound in the mountains overlooking Tbilisi.

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  • In the late 1980s Floyd injected gerbils with a free-radical-trapping compound called phenylbutyl nitrone just before inducing a stroke.

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  • Near where Mr. Pritzker's home is under construction, neighbors are up in arms over another of Mr. McCoy's projects, a roughly 70, 000-square-foot compound (downsized from 85, 000 square feet) awaiting permitting for Prince Abdulaziz ibn Abdullah ibn Abdulaziz Al Saud, son of the king of Saudi Arabia.

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  • Until disaster-scarred 2001, its revenue was zooming ahead at a compound annual rate of 15%--triple the industry's average--while earnings per share was increasing 27%.

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