The longer your house sits on the market, the more it will lose its luster in the eyes of home shoppers, while you're still on the hook for the mortgage, utilities and other expenses.

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Like most such eras, the luster will be more apparent to historians than to those who live through it.

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In Japan, where Uniqlo has blanketed the countryside with more than 800 stores, some of the brand's luster has been worn away by strip-mall locations and humdrum atmospheres.

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If the country of Korea had more national brand luster, not only would products from Hyundai, Samsung, LG have more momentum, but products from other Korean companies would also benefit.

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But as more programs gain accreditation, some business-school leaders say the gold standard is losing its luster.

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If most of the new films endeavor to give a marketable luster to heavy subjects, The Gingko Bed strives to inject weight into what is little more than an entertaining piece of fluff.

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Greeted everywhere by flower-pelting citizens, addressing a crowd of more than a million in the New Delhi Fairground, touring the sacred Taj Mahal, General Eisenhower added luster to his legacy in the twilight of his presidency.

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