But at the same time, we are now getting exceptionally weak retail numbers from Europe.

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If Mr Hatzius is right, then jobs have been slow to pick up largely because this has been, at least until now, an exceptionally weak economic recovery.

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Price action has been exceptionally weak for RFMD.

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The exceptionally tortured analysis Professor Crawford must employ to posit that cable is becoming a monopoly is comically weak conceptually, wholly dependent on obviously wrong assumptions, and is completely unsupported by the facts.

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