"The impact of World Cup jersey sales is pretty meaningless in the U.S., " he says.

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So that means the recent HBO Hard Knocks effect on anything Dolphins-related and the second-highest selling Robert Griffin III Redskin jersey had no impact on our results.

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As the senior race started and began to climb Pleinmont hill it was clear that the Guernsey riders wanted to make an impact on the race attacked their Jersey counterparts in an attempt to get riders away before finally Tony Bleasdale managed to break away from the group.

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It is feared the cold spell will have an impact on the main outdoor crop of Jersey Royal potatoes, which are planted from January onwards.

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Those factors have an impact on the ranking, helping drive New Jersey's Hunterdon County and California's Santa Clara County, near San Jose, to Nos. 4 and 17, respectively.

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Today, when I got back to Twitter, I was quickly able to see the vast devastation down in New Jersey and to wonder at the impact of what seems to be a new pattern of storm surges and rising waters in the New York region.

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There is plenty of news to react to as the market comes back, chiefly the impact from Sandy, which slammed into the New Jersey coast Monday evening.

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Verizon is hardly the only company that will see an impact from the storm that devastated sections of New York, New Jersey and other parts of the East Coast this week.

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Mr Keen said the loss of a tax-loophole allowing Jersey companies to sell low value good to the UK VAT free had had a "massive impact" on his business.

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