The five-speed manual is easy to use, if a bit slow, but then again, the old Jag motor is so torquey that you can leave the car in third gear for most jobs, and the brakes stop with the kind of easy retardation that speaks of modern discs and light weight.

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As such, the Heat found their higher gear in the third.

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JPMorgan resumed its stock repurchase activity at some point in the second quarter, but the bank really put things in high gear in the third quarter of the year.

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