Every character in LEGO Lord of the Rings has their own personal inventory.

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If the casual observer were to take a personal inventory of the New York Yankees at the close of business on the first day of the 2012 Winter Meetings, they would see a ball club that is saddled with burdens and difficulties that some might deem insurmountable.

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In the past, Mr. Bearden would have had to walk to the front of the store and look up available inventory on a personal computer.

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Prepare a detailed inventory of all damaged or destroyed personal property.

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Given the choice between a dull gray Dell or HP laptops out of corproate inventory, many employees opt to take their sleek personal PCs or MacBooks to work.

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Mr. McMurtry, who built his inventory by buying up the stock of secondhand bookstores and personal collections around the country, said he also has selected 100 books of special interest to him for individual auction.

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That instead of a multi-family boom happening in the spring, we will get a massive collapse in shadow inventory sometime later in the 2012 and a resulting rise in personal consumption expenditures and residential investment.

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Negative drivers were negative contributions from private inventory investment, federal government spending and exports, partially offset by personal consumption expenditures, nonresidential fixed investment and residential fixed investment.

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