According to the report, despite the increase in Europeans shopping on line, they still prefer bricks and mortar retail stores for the convenience and personal touch.

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Nor on-line competitors with no brick-and-mortar overhead.

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Indirect fire is a reference to rocket and mortar fire, and the U.S. military suspects hard-line Shiite militants stage such attacks.

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