The development of comic-book characters into franchises has occurred alongside the growing appreciation of the comic-book genre as art.

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Sadly Dilbaryan, who often swapped his beautiful paintings for bottles of vodka, was not around to experience the growing appreciation of his beautiful work.

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It's only been the last 10 years that there's been a growing appreciation, which has really skyrocketed the last five years, for the fact that these organisms may actually confer health benefits, and so the entities who have commercialized probiotics are now going back and testing whether or not there are benefits to those commercially available probiotics.

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The one country that most economists agree should let its currency rise is China (in theory, faster-growing countries should enjoy real appreciation over the long term).

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Worse, a growing majority of Americans lacks any first-hand connection to our appreciation of the military and its functions.

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He says growing up listening to his mother sing in Houston, Texas, helped shape his appreciation for various musical forms such as jazz, rock, and hip-hop that he now incorporates into his own work.

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Brazil, on the other hand, has had to deal with a loss of competitiveness due to an extreme appreciation of its currency, the real, as capital flows flood its massive, fast-growing economy.

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Capital appreciation came in at 23.6% per annum, and when you add in the rapidly growing dividend, shareholders enjoyed a total annualized rate of return of 24.8% per annum.

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