As the practices of the regulatory agencies have become lax and predictable, the ability of money managers, including mutual fund managers, to manipulate information regarding their operations and performance has grown.

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The trend has been more or less the same for the past few quarters, and Time Warner Cable has grown its profits despite a dismal performance in its pay-TV business.

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Matthew Polenzani, however, has grown into a robust Alfredo, and Dmitri Hvorostovsky gives a magnificent performance as Germont, applying a satiny finish to every phrase he sings.

NEWYORKER: Classical Music

Since big companies largely have recovered, and government employment has grown, at least at the federal level, clearly the real problem lies with the poor performance of smaller, and most critically newer, firms.

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