• To that end the chain is constantly adding reasons for customers to linger longer at the stores or to drop by in the evening or afternoon (traffic peaks between 8 a.m. and 10 a.m.).

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  • We see a steep drop off in revenues and units near term, punctuated by a drop in subscriber adds, and an OS refresh that is largely ignored by carriers and consumers alike, driving RIM into a forced sale in 2013.

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  • To be sure, Thursday's drop was in part driven by the major drop-off seen in the rest of the market, but shares had been trading down significantly throughout the day.

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  • And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

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  • According to the Wall Street Journal, the recovery of the U.S. housing market is an important driver of pickup sales, with builders and contractors, punished by the drop in new-home building caused by the economic crash of 2008, meeting a pent-up demand to replace old vehicles.

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  • With this supply squeeze in mind, the drop in exports caused by a spike in domestic demand during the Russian cold snap earlier this year may be a more worrying precedent than the political spat with Ukraine.

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  • The statistics may show a drop in crime across the country in the past five years, including a drop in murders by gun-wielding teenagers, but the fact is that each year more than 2, 000 Americans aged 14-17 use a gun to kill someone.

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  • The break in price support was confirmed by a drop in the relative performance below its support (line j).

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  • France and Italy were unusual in seeing spending from their tourists drop, by 7% in the case of France and 2% for Italy.

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  • Local horn players drop by to sit in for a few songs and the place is packed with locals.

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  • Investment banks have been unable to mitigate the effect of the trading-profits drop by generating fees in other business lines.

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  • The number of new houses in Scotland fell last year, driven by a drop in the number of private homes being built, according to official figures.

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  • In August 2000, a ruling cut three years off the patent for Prozac, Eli Lilly's hugely successful antidepressant, causing the company's shares to drop by 30% in one day.

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  • The new data from Sageworks comes as the latest reading on U.S. manufacturing activity showed that the sector continued to grow only modestly in August as increased domestic new orders were partly offset by another drop in new export orders.

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  • The price of goods leaving factories barely rose in November from October, as rising fuel prices were offset by a drop in car prices.

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  • The mortgage lender pointed to a continued slide in enquires from new buyers, as reported by estate agents, and the recent drop in new mortgage approvals recorded by the Bank of England.

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  • The recent underperformance of gold has also been exaggerated by a drop in the price of GLD, the popular exchange traded fund (ETF) originally created by Wall Street to mirror the price of gold.

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  • But year-ago sales were suppressed by a 3.4% drop in food prices, while food prices climbed by 3.3% in the latest quarter.

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  • Part of the problem is weakening growth in exports, driven largely by a recent drop in the price of coal and other commodities that Indonesia sells overseas.

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  • Industrial production fell by 3.7% in March alone, dragged down by a drop of 13.6% in new construction.

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  • That drug, rimonabant, produced significant weight loss and a drop in fasting insulin levels by affecting certain cannabinoid receptors in the exact opposite way that THC, marijuana's main psychoactive ingredient, does.

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  • The decline in the economy was driven almost entirely by the deep drop in investment.

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  • Nationally, the Health Select Committee has said that patients in England have been put at risk by a significant drop in inspections at hospitals and care homes.

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  • The October-to-December period was also negatively affected by Storm Sandy, which caused the closure of many factories and businesses in the New York area, and by a sharp drop in exports.

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  • Due to a drop in demand caused by economic uncertainty, the report predicts economy class airfare in North America, Europe, the Middle East and Africa should increase by less than 5% in 2012.

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  • In other words, producers were caught out by a sudden drop in sales.

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  • Shale gas also helps to explain the sharp drop in US oil imports forecast by the EIA in the next two years.

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  • Producer-price inflation slowed to 1.5% in the year to July from 2.5% in June, led by the largest monthly drop in energy prices in 12 years.

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  • The break was confirmed by a drop in the RS line below its support (line d).

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  • The bosses fully expected the saving on space to be counteracted by a drop in productivity.

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