People will try these weak recommendations and discover their mixed or lackluster results.

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This has been a rough year for all of the players in the PC sector: plagued by a combination of weak IT spending, tablet cannibalization, some mixed opinions for Windows 8 and various other factors, PC sales have stumbled badly, falling about 8% year-over-year in the third quarter.

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U. meeting seemed weak, though, and the FTT received a mixed reception.

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Wall Street finished mixed on Monday after record oil and a weak manufacturing report had stocks trading lower.

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The U.S. presents a mixed picture with high unemployment rate and a weak housing market on one hand and growing consumer spending on the other.

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Given the sensitivity of the vulnerabilities highlighted by Matasano's researchers, he had mixed feelings about the public airing of his industry's weak points.

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In the latest sign of weak demand for telecom infrastructure, optical networking supplier JDSU this afternoon posted mixed results for the fiscal first quarter ended September 29.

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