Costco is so good at the grocery business, he adds, it has succeeded at doing the seemingly impossible, stealing customers from grocery chains operating at super-thin margins.

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Latching on to a pass down the right from Elano but at a seemingly impossible angle trapped against the byeline, he produced a swerving screamer that bent in with goalkeeper Ri Myong-guk standing a fraction too far off his post.

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Under the leadership of Ben Bernanke, the U.S. Federal Reserve has done the seemingly impossible: It has managed to create inflation and deflation at the same time.

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