By region, it expects a mid-teens percentage increase in sales in the Americas, a mid-twenties percentage increase in both Asia-Pacific and Europe, and a modest sales decline in Japan.

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On a constant-exchange-rate basis, an expected high-single-digit percentage increase in worldwide net sales includes sales growth in all regions, ranging from a mid-teens percentage increase in Asia-Pacific to a low-single-digit increase in Japan.

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Some recent studies have revealed a significant concentration of particles in near-surface waters in areas of mid-ocean accumulation (N Pacific and NW Atlantic gyres).

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In this feat of brilliant pyrotechnics, six interlocking stories mix the voices, among others, of a journalist in Governor Ronald Reagan's California and a voyager crossing the Pacific in the mid-19th century.

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In mid-2003, traffic across the Pacific dropped 40%.

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The rest are scattered across the Midwest (fifty-eight), the mid-Atlantic (twenty-five), the mountain West (eighteen), and the Pacific (twenty-one).

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None require more than an easy mid-iron, many are idiosyncratic and all but one have views of the Pacific surf.

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He decided to go into petrochemicals while attending a Pacific Rim business conference in the Indonesian island of Bali in mid-1994.

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