Consumers are putting jugs of tap water into their refrigerators, and Pepsi notes a sharp decline in bottled water sales.

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Malveaux also notes that the sharp decrease in black poverty since the 1960 has created a strong African American middle class.

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She also notes that a sharp depreciation in the yen over the last three months points to weaker prices and revenues in dollars.

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" Mr. Curcio's prose is more dense, but his book is studded with sharp descriptions, such as when he notes that Ford's thought processes "jumped from one subject to another without prelude, " making his utterances "cryptic to the point of incoherence.

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Science is rarely black and white, Usdin notes, and there will always be sharp disagreements among staffers on any decision.

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The uptrends in the yields of the German ten-year Bunds and the US ten-year T-Notes (line a) shows a sharp increase since the start of May.

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White notes that Hon Hai had invested in Sharp earlier this year to secure LCD panels that White contends are intended for production of Apple-branded TVs.

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Helyar notes that equipment manufacturers are likely to reduce orders to avoid a sharp increase in their inventory of work in progress.

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Gartner notes that laptops are no longer driving growth, due largely to a sharp drop in consumer interest in netbooks.

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