In fact, in the release, CEO Scott McGregor notes that revenue was above the mid-point of guidance, and profitability was higher than expected.

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Scott kept notes about every story he published and what he was paid in his ledger, which is archived at Princeton along with the stories.

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No denomination is investing as much in New England church planting, though Hartford Seminary professor Scott Thumma notes that attendance isn't growing as fast as the number of churches.

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It helps that the sort of people who do not have landlines are also the sort who tend to turn out in relatively low numbers in mid-term elections, notes Scott Keeter of the Pew Centre.

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One of those notes went to Scott Christopher, the noted photographer based in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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"When I wrote the lyrics I thought of the Camus quote from the liner notes to a Scott Walker album, " he says.

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Within 12 hours, Ridley Scott and his team had sent back notes.

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Ultimately, notes political economy professor Jason Scott Smith, the New Deal intimately touched the lives of more than 50 million people--out of a total U.S. population, in 1933, of 125 million.

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Scott reckoned the plan would be troublesome in Scotland where smaller notes were dominant.

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Traced back to the 19th century, they have long been used in friendly notes and communications before digital forms of emoticons were introduced in 1982 by Scott Fahlman of Carnegie Mellon University.

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