But that's less than half its value in May, when the shares began to slide as the effects of the global credit crunch began to weigh on the financial markets.

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Where we were wrong is that the currency's slide has had few ill effects on the economy.

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While improved pricing and lower input costs helped the bottom line, Nike saw gross margins slide 30 basis points to 42.5% as higher labor costs, currency effects, and a transition to lower margin products and businesses took a toll on profits.

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We particularly liked the ease of use of Keynote's chart and table tools, which work within the application, and its transition effects, both for moving between slides and for introducing elements within an individual slide--though overuse may eventually make us as tired of Keynote's revolving cube transitions as we are of PowerPoint's wipes.

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