"What's more, consumers and shareholders alike are becoming more aware of a company's environmental record and this trend is only going to grow, " he says.
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Michael Kurtz, a longtime music producer and technician, was sitting around with a bunch of record store owners trying to brainstorm ideas to reverse that trend when Chris Brown of Bull Moose Music suggested dedicating a day to record stores.
Smallwood also sees production to continue to trend upwards after the company declared a record 7.7 million silver equivalent ounces of production in the third quarter.
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Moving on, he stated that Apple's retail stores also had a record quarter (noticing a trend?), with about half of all Mac buyers in stores being first-time Mac owners.
This is true regardless of the long-run track record of stocks and the trend toward lower yields for bonds caused by the increasing demand for bonds by both the government and investors.
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Government scientists said Tuesday that 2012 was among the top ten warmest on record globally and continues a trend of rising temperatures due to increasing emissions of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide.
The capital is already attracting record numbers of visitors and the trend is sharply upwards, despite the strong pound.
Consumers have been buying tablets and smartphones at a record pace in 2011, and that trend is expected to continue in 2012.
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Finally, three major available global surface temperature record sources report a steady-to-cooling trend since 2001.
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This reduction is the largest single year dollar decrease in Federal contract spending on record, and establishes a three-year downward trend from 2009-2012.
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Batters are hitting a record number of home runs this year, continuing a trend that began in 1994.
September and October have been full of reports talking about record high prices for this precious metal, and the overall trend has been up for roughly eight years now.
Last year set a new record, with 77 murders reported by UNESCO which also uncovered a trend: The agency's report on this issue last month found that the percentage of murders in 2008-09 that were not linked to conflicts rose in comparison to the previous two-year period.
We had a couple people at CTIA last week -- people whose words carry weight -- tell us off the record that the next major version of Android would take big strides toward stopping the ugly trend toward severe fragmentation that has plagued the platform for much of this and last year.
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