With origins in the 14th century, it is thought to refer to the "off-fall" from the butcher's block, meaning the less desirable parts.
David Burnham, a co-director of TRAC, told The Huffington Post that the fall-off in financial fraud prosecutions most likely does not reflect a fall-off in financial fraud itself.
The increase in so-called utility-scale installations masked relatively flat growth in residential rooftop solar and a fall-off in commercial installations.
Activision, another Xbox gamemaker, has a billion-dollar market capitalization despite its cheaper multiple, but insiders were selling off its stock this fall--not a reassuring sign.
Many of the country's retail chains have issued warnings of a sharp fall-off in business following the attacks.
Even with the recent fall-off, gold is up about 30% for the year.
They've performed very, very sluggishly, in fact a steep fall-off from the Internet boom to where we are now.
The bistro offers fall-off-the-fork-tender beef cheeks that have been slow-cooked for five hours.
Citing a fall-off in demand for notebooks, Gartner this morning chopped its PC growth forecast for both 2011 and 2012.
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As a result, there has been a corresponding fall-off in the contribution of new jobs to the economy by startups.
The biggest losses were in the IT and telecoms sector, both of which experienced a fall-off of more than 30%.
Chinese exporters were hard hit by the fall-off in foreign demand last year that followed from the global financial crisis.
If we see the same fall-off this time around, the youth demo will likely lose the kingmaker status it held in 2008.
Andrew Watson runs a men's clothing shop and wants traders to have a rates holiday to compensate them for the fall-off in business.
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While Buffett has enjoyed great success as an investor, the fall-off demonstrates the painful limitations of his philosophy: Buy good companies he understands and hold on to them forever.
Ramdin had hit one boundary before playing back to Muralitharan and being hit in front of off-stump - the fifth man in the innings to fall foul of the lbw rule.
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The cam also has a focal length extension factor of 1.33, which helps to mitigate the problem of "vignetting, " or a fall-off in brightness that would occur without the extension factor.
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When the russet sauce is heated through and the flavors have begun to meld, the poultry is returned to the pan to braise, low and slow, until the meat is fall-off-the-bone tender.
Oracle, you will recall, posted just 2% revenue growth in the latest quarter, citing both a fall-off in hardware revenue and a more complicated approval process at some customers for larger deals.
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Turns out, a good chunk of it resulted from the price spike in the quarter for hard disk drives, which saw a sharp fall-off in supply as as a result of the recent severe flooding in Thailand.
And yet, amidst day to day busyness, the small things, like a quick thanks, can fall off the to-do list altogether.
If the hypothesis is true, people would fall off the vege-wagon more often when exposed to real bacon sizzling in the pan.
Car manufacturers have seen sales of their smaller, mass-market models fall off, with lower income buyers unable to afford new cars in the economic downturn.
The company also saw a mid single-digit comp store sales decline in mobile computing due to a fall off notebook computer sales, in part reflecting a pick-up in tablet computer sales.
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But the take-off in mobile coverage also lagged the fall in kidnaps.
Meanwhile, Bart Melek, head of commodity strategy for TD Securities, looks for gold to track other risk assets during the debate, meaning it would likely fall on a stand-off if markets like equities did likewise.
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The greatest example of off-season creep is the NFL, a near-religion which has successfully repositioned itself from a fall-to-winter pastime to a daily relationship, to be attended to constantly.
"I'd used my first aid in the office, but that had amounted to calling 999, but this was a guy we'd just seen fall off a mountain in temperatures of -7, " said Mr Davies.
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So the idea was to provide that shot, as I also mentioned, to start to provide and to incentivize the kinds of reforms that we wanted to see moving forward, but not to fall off a cliff when the two-year period was over.
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