"Clients expect yield at a shorter time frame, and sometimes double-digit returns, " said Jeffrey Tang, a director at consultants Towers Watson.

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Although frame compatible 3D isn't double the resolution of HD like Blu-ray's Full 3D HD, there was plenty of detail to soak in, and it's unmistakably HD quality.

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Over that time frame, there have been only three recorded instances of a double-dip recession.

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When we meet, he wears a china-blue double-breasted Van Noten suit and white distressed Church's loafers that match the slightly cartoonish white round-frame sunglasses he puts on later as we walk over to Van Noten's Antwerp store, where he often shows up unannounced.

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