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Margins were compressed by Nike’s efforts to clean out old inventory and bring in new products.
From Barron's
"So these events are more difficult to detect, especially when they are older than a few thousand years and after being buried, leave little or no superficial evidence."
From Science Daily
Unlike the last fight Paul had against a former champ, this one isn’t 58 years old either.
TAE is one of the oldest—and most prominent—companies working in the relatively nascent field of commercial nuclear fusion.
Emerging from that “old constellation” of the European state system, Mr. Shalev argues, “the American Union presented itself . . . as a new constellation of star-states that was regulated, predictable, harmonious and sublime.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.