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Our failure to reduce costs through produc - unable to maintain premium pricing over private label tivity gains or by eliminating redundant costs resulting from products. acquisitions could adversely affect our profitability and also weaken our competitive position.
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His Puritan counterpart in America, Cotton Mather of Boston, whose outrage would carry over to the Salem witch trials, chimed in: "Christ's Na-tivity is spent in Reveling, Dicing, Carding, Masking and in all Licentious Liberty."
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Flint could see the town beginning to bustle with the ac - tivity of a new day, and without really deciding to do so, he found himself walking on the road that snaked down to the center of the village.
Flint, the King Kirchoff, Mary 2003
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The African National Congress is appalled at the gross insensi - tivity of President De Klerk to award the Order of
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A new law have been introduced that will make it much more dangerous to hack computersystems, but since almost every other european country already have this law, I think it will make no difference in ac - tivity from our great friends.
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Flint could see the town beginning to bustle with the ac - tivity of a new day, and without really deciding to do so, he found himself walking on the road that snaked down to the center of the village.
Flint the King Kirchoff, Mary 1990
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Music was, most fundamentally, a participant ac - tivity; people without other esthetic appreciation neverthe - less liked to tap toes, nod heads, sway to the evocative melody and beat.
Blue Adept Anthony, Piers 1981
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Is it Mexico's usual priggish insensi-tivity, or does he know what he's saying?
Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978
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Among their causes they listed eco - nomic factors, especially those relating to trade and finance, and they examined nationalism, with its con - cepts of honor, vital interests, sovereignty, and sensi - tivity which led to alliances and other treaties involv - ing mutual self-interest.
INTERNATIONAL PEACE WARREN F. KUEHL 1968
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In the early twen - ties questions concerning the limitations of the sensi - tivity of measuring instruments came to the forefront of physical interest when, with no direct connection with quantum effects, the disturbing effects of the
INDETERMINACY IN PHYSICS MAX JAMMER 1968
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