Because the import number was inflated by commodity purchases, imports of consumer goods must have been stagnant, and there are some indications that domestic demand is indeed flat.

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What's more, this number is inflated by the generous inclusion of the Kansas Jayhawks (95-40), which aren't even real birds but a fictional hybrid of a blue jay and a hawk.

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Even that number seems inflated.

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But I think that traffic number may be inflated.

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In other words, VCs may ultimately wind-up holding a large number of companies at inflated valuations.

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About 20 million Americans participated in the first Earth Day, organizers said, though that number is most likely inflated.

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We tend to believe that those shares are highly illiquid so the valuation can change drastically, and be inflated, when just a small number of shares change hands.

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The number, however, was undoubtedly inflated.

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One hospital might have 30 different insurance contracts and the same number of rates that it charges them, plus a list price inflated to double or even triple those rates that it charges customers who lack insurance.

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