The Japanese slang term "Unibare" is meant derisively, applied to someone caught, embarrassingly, clad in one of Uniqlo's ubiquitous core items.
Every office has slightly different needs, of course, but there are some core items that all small-scale entrepreneurs can't compete without.
The disclosure late Monday about the black Luon pants one of its core items followed a string of complaints last year that the colors were bleeding on some of its tops.
Core menu items, such as French fries and the Whopper, have also been tweaked as part of the company's efforts to improve food quality.
Of the six core agenda items of the Tea Party, the American people agree with the Tea Party on five of them and have yet to make up their minds on the sixth.
The stated purpose of this exercise is to construct a "bare-bones" Core List of proscribed items.
Another way to look at inflation is all-items inflation vs. core inflation, that is, inflation without food and energy.
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The core index, which measures prices on items excluding food and energy, picked up 0.1%, just one percentage point under the estimate.
The index for all items excluding food and energy, or core CPI, showed an increase of 0.2%.
"Banks had a better performance year in 2012 but their improved core profits were eaten up by fines and other exceptional items, leaving them down on 2011, " said Bill Michael of KPMG.
However, it is relatively rare for them to charge money for items intrinsic to a character's progress through core content.
As part of this lengthy process, petitioners were required to submit numerous items to the department, including detailed survey work and core drilling samples.
Also, Monday's data showed core inflation -- a closely tracked measure that strips out volatile food and fuel items -- eased to 3.48% from 3.78%.
By removing extraordinary items often the price paid for restructuring Ernst tries to measure core earning power.
Etsy seller Jaime Core says the company sent her an email with a "long" survey asking about her items, specifically a soy strawberry candle.
Supply chains, for various reasons, can be notoriously opaque especially for items that are provided by a supplier that may be two or three tiers away from a core supplier.
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