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My mother left the show early, determined to go to bed and be asleep before Francis and I returned to our room.

That’s a fatal flaw in the Santa Claus rally’s statistical foundation, unless there is a good explanation for why Santa Claus was asleep for more than 60 years and then woke up.

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It was lying on its side, as if asleep.

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As this reader discovered, other fiduciaries can’t deal with the stress and are asleep on the job.

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The study revealed that runners who struggled with falling asleep, woke up frequently during the night, or rarely felt rested were the most prone to injury.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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