Baillie was unsure if he would pursue the matter but does feel his club and its followers have been hard done by.
The company said that while its own component and disk drive factories in Thailand have not been directly affected by flooding, its ability to manufacture hard disk drives has been impacted due to external component supply constraints, as it has disclosed previously.
The most likely outcome is that Western Digital will be forced to sell a badly needed potential production plant at a time when its Thailand operations have been hard hit by the Fall Thailand floods.
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However, its core demographic has been hit hard by the weak economy, according to Ms Westnedge, with young consumers facing a particularly high unemployment rate, as well as rising university tuition fees.
The real miracle economy in the South Pacific is, of course, Australia, which simply sailed through the Asian crisis and the world commodity-price slump, which has been hard on its mineral exports.
However, recently Gap has been working hard on its marketing strategy in order to reconnect with its target demographic.
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For the past couple of year, Cisco has been working hard on its SDN strategy, also known as software-defined networking.
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It is the only operating division whose profit contribution shrank in 2002 (see chart), and it has been hard to integrate its geekish internet culture, far removed from the Time Warner tradition.
Mitsubishi Motors has been hit hard by revelations that the group and its truck division Mitsubishi Fuso had been hiding defects to prevent product recalls.
Growth has been particularly hit hard at its Construction Industries division in China where sales have declined compared to the mid-2011 levels.
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Meanwhile, Intel has been pushing its data center business, hard, which stands to gain regardless of whether the PC business is upended by smart phones and tablets.
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"Consumer discretionary has been hit pretty hard since its peak in April, but consumers are not as tapped out or fearful as they are made out to be, " says Schaeffer's Investment Research technical strategist Ryan Detrick.
Victor Cha of the Centre for Strategic and International Studies, a former Bush administration negotiator with North Korea, says the regime has been trying hard to prove its mettle as it enters an unstable era of new leadership.
As part of the stipulation, Comcast, which has been hard at work flogging its own anywhere, anytime multimedia service, will be able to maintain an equity stake in Hulu without having any day to day control over the site.
"They've all been really nice to me, its hard to talk about it, " she said.
Its important North American routes and business have been hard hit by the collapse in business-class travel.
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Even before the flu outbreak, Mexico had been especially hard hit, because its economy is so closely tied to that of the United States.
Although the Philippines has not been hit as hard as some of its neighbours, the country is nevertheless close to recession.
Fox has been particularly hard hit because few of its new fall shows drew big audiences, while aging hit "American Idol" has been losing steam.
Its been very hectic here all day with a roving reporters working hard to finish their radio show!
But they should be thinking hard about the world, for its markets have been thinking, sceptically, about them.
It has been hard to say because this government, like its predecessor in its more coherent moments, has taken a pragmatic position.
The impact of its success is hard to measure, but lately this sector has been going full steam ahead.
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Greece has been lobbying hard for a two-year extension for its fiscal targets.
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In the past five years the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) has been criticised by many of its members for not fighting their corner hard enough.
According to the report, the Hesse-led network's been hard at work installing the necessary infrastructure to convert to its towers to FD-LTE, which is the same flavor of LTE as Verizon and future partner LightSquared.
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Even market darling Baidu has been hit hard, suffering a 16.2% drop in its stock price last month.
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Here's the scuttlebutt: Google engineers have reportedly been working hard on mobile phone software that will hook phones into its online services.
VirtualU is working hard to build its initial userbase right now, and that has been a challenge since the product is not publicly available.
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