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The estimates are adjusted for the calendar year for companies whose fiscal reporting periods don’t match the calendar.

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In such a fraught and dangerous period, the pro-democracy movement needs new leaders from a younger generation.

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Ms Clarke said she now stays indoors for long periods of time to try to avoid the insects, which left her needing hospital treatment for bites twice last year.

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Until all schools adopt the policy, she says, families could have to juggle childcare issues over a longer period.

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The war had been a human catastrophe, but Hahn'sche Werke had prospered in that period, satisfying the German military's demand for steel.

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

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