Start at the core, I said, and methodically work outward.

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But with a background of strong profit margins, renewed consumer confidence and CEOs who are finally beginning to make the capital expenditures that they had previously delayed, corporate profits (and subsequently stock prices) are poised to methodically work their way higher over time.

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Men methodically scythe the long grass, backbreaking and slow work.

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