The retail sales growth trend continued on a steady decline in February, reaching an almost-flat figure of 0.1% growth in the three month period compared to the same three month period a year ago.

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Dubbed "the portrait of a soul" and "the face that launched 1, 000 therapists, " "The Scream" depicts a distorted human figure -- hands flat against its sunken face, eyes and mouth wide open -- in the foreground of a nightmarish landscape.

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Colleges currently charge a flat-rate fee about half that figure which is paid upfront.

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Quilted figure is revealed when wood with wavy grain is flat-sawn.

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And a 2% to 3% increase in operating and labor costs in the U.S. figure to offset modest sales growth there, keeping margins flat.

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The critical stage in their development was switching focus from trying to figure out how to make a cheaper hospital incubator to flat-out saving lives.

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And Wind River Systems is flat to slightly lower after the company beat by a nickel its fourth-quarter figure, missed on revenues and guided below consensus for the first quarter.

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She tossed out one after another because they didn't synch across all her devices, took too long to figure out, made it too hard to enter tasks or were just flat-out ugly.

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And just as Matisse's paeans to the tension between the three-dimensional world and the flat canvas have been dismissed as "decorative" because of their glorious color and patterning, Veronese's lush figure groups have been similarly labeled, for similar reasons.

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