When combined with the impact of the seasonality of our business and the calendar timing of our first fiscal quarter, this trend had a more significant effect than previously anticipated, and resulted in revenue recognition delays on a few solutions-oriented projects with new customers, especially in international markets.
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But one as yet unstudied side-effect of this social trend appears to be an explosion in the cat population.
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Perhaps most worryingly, as Benton notes, the spectacular debut of the iPad 2 in mid-March had no effect on the overall downward trend.
Lukianoff posits that the pervasive trend of campus censorship has had a wider effect on our society as a whole.
However, the upward trend is unlikely to continue as the holiday effect fades and warmer weather starts to bolster food supplies, said Yu Qiumei, a senior statistician with the bureau, suggesting CPI growth will ease this month.
The wave effect becomes far more gentle, and the trend even more noticeable, yes?
If the urban heat island effect were large, you would expect to see a bigger trend for calm days when more of the heat stays in the city.
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Would anybody seriously deny that the Reagan policies of the early 1980s had such a significant effect on economic growth and employment that they changed the growth trend line?
Given the small effect observed in this large study, the lack of a clear trend with increasing coffee consumption, and the fact that other risk factors are likely to be correlated with coffee consumption, any conclusion regarding the relationship of coffee drinking to risk of stroke remains moot.
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But those who hope it is the start of a positive trend can point to a recent change in corporate law in the state of Delaware, which took effect on August 1st, to make it easier to introduce such reimbursement bylaws.
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