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Nike faces fiercer local competition and cooling consumer demand in China, experiencing sales declines for seven straight quarters.
“An autistic individual may say that spinning quarters is a good distraction technique for them,” reads one tip.
From Los Angeles Times
Even though humans created the near-miraculous technology of the internet, there are those in some quarters who still long to believe in magic, and they like it to have that edgy, dark side.
From Salon
Overall inflation in the U.K. is expected to rise between 3% and 3.5% in coming quarters, the Bank of England said last month.
The dollar extended its winning streak to three consecutive quarters in the first three months of the year.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.