It means their double-digit profit margins aren't high enough to satisfy Wall Street. |
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Just counting the pairs of shoes in the hall cupboard rapidly amounts to double-digit figures. |
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During 2001, a sharp correction arrived after several years of double-digit growth. |
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Generous employers will pay a double-digit percentage of your salary towards your pension. |
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While not a double-digit increase like those of the past five years, it is still higher than the estimated inflation rate. |
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Five years ago, most eastern European nations were battling double-digit inflation. |
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Home-owners face soaring bills this autumn amid predictions of a fresh round of double-digit energy price increases. |
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The general view was the high double-digit growth achieved by the group over much of the past 20 years was about to end. |
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Earnings for this year are likely to be healthy, as house price growth has again reached double-digit figures. |
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Low interest rates and double-digit house price inflation have led to a big increase in equity withdrawal in the past couple of years. |
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After four years of double-digit growth, house-price inflation is expected to slow this year. |
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He expects earnings to grow by double-digit figures in the first half of the current financial year. |
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We've just announced our seventh half year of double-digit earnings growth and we're going to see much more of that coming in future. |
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For several years in a row, the retail costs of heating oil and natural gas have seen double-digit percentage increases. |
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A double-digit increase in the economy was possible and unemployment would be gradually reduced, he said. |
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Rentals cost nearly five dollars and first run films are edging ever closer to double-digit prices. |
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Firms with questionable numbers see their stock prices fall by double-digit percentages. |
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We have acquired a sense of momentum and have achieved double-digit growth over a period of several years. |
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He's made 10 or more field goals in a game six times, has hit five three-pointers twice, and sunk double-digit free throws in four other matches. |
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Anheuser has posted double-digit profit gains for 20 straight quarters, while its nearest competitors, Coors and Miller, have flatlined. |
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We took the economy from the double-digit inflation of the late 1970s to a core inflation rate in the two-to-three percent range. |
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The rule sounded like a great idea a few years ago, when investment portfolios delivered double-digit annual returns. |
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Her company's sales have continued to grow at a double-digit rate, she says coyly. |
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Yeah, it was nice, but I could rattle off double-digit, middle-of-the-road teams that would have won 10 games against that cream-puff schedule. |
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The promotion resulted in double-digit sales volume growth for Welch's drinks. |
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The publisher of academic journals plans to return to double-digit growth next year. |
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When you tack on inflation, it will be spectacular double-digit growth. |
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Two years after this, in 1990, we had double-digit general inflation. |
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This is why supplier deliveries are slowing to an extreme degree, and unfilled order backlogs are inflating at a double-digit annual pace. |
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This year's semiconductors sales are set for a double-digit decline on 2000, according to the latest downwardly revised forecasts from analysts. |
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Land prices in the heart of the Corn Belt have increased at a double-digit rate in six of the last seven years. |
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Most recent polls show a tie at the national level, but Romney holds a double-digit lead among independent voters. |
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Japan's obsession with energy efficiency started when the oil shocks of the 1970s ended two decades of double-digit growth. |
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Imagine what would have happened to an album of double-digit minute solo piano improvisations in the hands of one with lesser talent. |
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The fall in office rents followed four consecutive years of double-digit growth and was largely caused by fears over the economy. |
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This is the only way to slow the double-digit growth in the cost of pharmaceuticals. |
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However, this positive sign is muted by the fact that all three areas continue to suffer from double-digit increases. |
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While the days of double-digit growth in conventional advertising revenues may be gone, conventional broadcasting will not disappear tomorrow. |
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The track saw an attendance increase and a double-digit mutuel handle decrease. |
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It has seen double-digit growth over the past years and is contributing to productivity growth and wealth in many parts of the economy. |
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This represents a steady progression, with near double-digit growth rates each year. |
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On international markets, Emmi enjoyed very good growth, achieving double-digit growth with its Kaltbach line and its specialities. |
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That didn't work as the team dug itself into a double-digit deficit in the division. |
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In the seventies we were racked with economic problems like huge inflation and double-digit unemployment. |
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And then, just when he has finished building a double-digit lead in the polls, whoosh! |
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But while the PC market may hit double-digit growth next year, other forecasts are not quite as rosy. |
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However, with the rental market reaching saturation point in certain areas, it looks as if double-digit growth is a thing of the past. |
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They built a double-digit lead in the first-quarter, sizzling to a 40-point first quarter. |
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Another volume leader are new grocery multipacks with double-digit sales increases. |
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Unilever said it expects low double-digit growth in earnings per share this financial year. |
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I see him as one of those double-digit handicappers who gets up and hits a hard hook off the first tee, a breed that wins disproportionately. |
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But this area certainly isn't alone in the kind of double-digit appreciation that's caused sticker shock. |
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It's also growing at the fastest clip, with double-digit increases every year. |
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However, recently oil demand has surged as globalisation fuels double-digit growth in China and India. |
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Very few new product introductions result in company-wide, double-digit sales increases. |
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The feeble ruble has helped push down currencies around the region, sometimes by double-digit figures. |
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Breweries are showing double-digit growth rates, exceeding the 100-million-hectoliter production mark last year. |
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Russia also delivered double-digit growth despite recent government price controls. |
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Many inland areas still face double-digit unemployment rates and continuing foreclosures. |
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In particular, growth in machinery and equipment outlays is projected in double-digit territory next year. |
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A double-digit rise in the welfare budget for two consecutive years is also inevitable, considering both the widening income gap and scanty social safety net. |
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Any number less than 50 equates to almost double-digit declines in industrial production. |
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Now, double-digit unemployment feels normal. |
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Hence the proliferation of double-digit losses. |
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Cantor and his team, assuming a relatively easy victory was imminent, were blindsided last Tuesday in a double-digit loss. |
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Rexel delivered double-digit growth in most of its other European markets, and posted particularly strong performances in Austria and Central Europe, where the Group is the market leader. |
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Unable to keep up with annual double-digit price increases, academic libraries, have also been forced to reduce the number of paper journal subscriptions and have constrained their purchases of monographs. |
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A double-digit loss to Santorum and Paul is like pouring Johnnie Walker Black on a paper cut. |
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Thanks to the positive volume of new business and the increase in loans and advances to customers, double-digit growth has been reported for net interest income and for net commission income. |
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The upshot is that domestic demand has been able to replace net exports as the engine of growth, while both exports and imports are rising at double-digit pace. |
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Are you paying overdraft and double-digit personal loan rates on borrowings while leaving money on deposit at an interest rate of one or two per cent? |
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The loss of double-digit stock gains slowed consumer spending from its boom times of the late 1990s, leading to excess inventories and cutbacks in factory output. |
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The cost of materials experienced a double-digit increase in part, and these mark-ups could not be passed on to customers in their entirety as a rule. |
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The market for goat's cheese products is currently performing very well, with double-digit growth rates being reported, particularly in the fresh cheese segment. |
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In addition to an upfront investment, the Company will also receive milestone payments, reimbursement of all development costs and a double-digit royalty on sales of the product. |
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Both large sum and international payment transactions produced double-digit growth in transaction business. |
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In 2007, sales of botox, dermal implants and breast implants were all growing at strong double-digit rates. |
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Ontario's unemployment rate is likely to hover in double-digit territory through next year. |
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During the fourth quarter, our operations in Europe generally posted double-digit growth. |
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This is as a result of a consistent double-digit growth rate of its enterprise and mid-market customer base. |
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Sandoz continued to build momentum in the second quarter, achieving robust double-digit growth in constant currencies. |
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We have had double-digit inflation in housing for some time and it looks like we will continue to have that. |
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Perry walloped her in the GOP primary, then went on to win a historic third term in the general election by a double-digit margin. |
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Maggi achieved double-digit organic growth in Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe. |
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For the country as a whole, the era of double-digit price increases is over. Perhaps most telling, builders have recently become a lot glummer. |
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As the following graphs show, the strategy's performance has been positive and double-digit in falling, lateral and bull markets. |
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Following four quarters of double-digit growth in 1994, profit levels in 1995 plateaued at historically high levels. |
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The shot provided the Mustangs with a double-digit lead they would not relinquish en route to a 50-40 victory over defending Div. |
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From March through December of 2004, the market recorded double-digit growth in RevPAR each month. |
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Each company reported double-digit growth for both sales and operating profits. |
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They often start too slowly, having to erase double-digit deficits. |
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Within our broad product range, you can find relays to switch low level loads or double-digit ampere values. |
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Although regional labour market statistics are sketchy, high unemployment rates remain a serious concern, with estimates of unemployment hovering at the double-digit level in most ESCWA member countries. |
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Throughout this whirligig, King Abdullah made it clear that he had set aside the diplomatic preoccupations of his father to concentrate on Jordan's double-digit unemployment and near-zero economic growth. |
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These satirized such strangely irrational tribal customs of the 1950s as going through double-digit drafts and many hundreds of Research Department person-hours in order to produce one slim Annual Report. |
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Copper, lead, soyabeans, wheat, cotton, coffee, cocoa and feeder cattle have all registered double-digit percentage gains this year. Some of these gains can be traced back to the rise in oil prices. |
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Most Canadian health care trend factors continue to increase at double-digit rates, according to the latest Canadian Health Care Trend Survey conducted by ACS HR Solutions. |
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This was the 10th consecutive quarter of double-digit SSRS growth supported by excellent results in HANA, mobile and cloud. |
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That American companies are not confident of investing profitably is reflected in forecasts for annual profits growth, which have fallen into single figures after three and a half years in double-digit territory. |
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Together with rising prices of energy, these two factors will lead the HEMS and BEMS market to double-digit growth over this decade. |
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According to CEO Laurence Weinbach, Unisys succeeded in achieving its target for double-digit growth in business process outsourcing, on the back of recent major projects. |
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In Westport they are still partying like it's shortly after 1999 when the Irish economy was powering ahead with double-digit growth and the Celtic Tiger model was the envy of the world. |
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Today's forecasts of double-digit profit growth in the next few years look unrealistic. Recent rosiness about America is perhaps understandable, given how much money has been thrown at the economy. |
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Its enough to listen to RFI to understand that these investments then focused on the raw materials markets consumed by the so-called « emerging » economies, of which China which supposedly was to feed a double-digit growth. |
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Real residential investment, which has fallen at a double-digit annual rate for four consecutive quarters, will likely continue to retrench through year-end. |
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Bulgaria reported on Wednesday a double-digit rise in the number of environment-friendly electric-powered and hybrid personal motor vehicles. |
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Our prognostications have proven accurate with regard to the markets' direction, though the major indices, recording low double-digit returns at the time of writing, have performed somewhat better than forecast. |
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Of the 15 national markets monitored by IPD, a data provider, 12 achieved double-digit returns last year. In the process, valuations now look toppy. |
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What happened after that is we gained a double-digit poll lead, which hadn't been earned, and that acted as a disincentive to do all the heavy lifting, to go to all the difficult places after the 2010 defeat. |
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Both countries continue their unsuccessful use of unorthodox and confidence-damaging administrative price controls to contain and reverse inflation rates that remain in double-digit territory. |
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With near double-digit growth in 2003, it continues to power forward. |
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It is comforting to know that 84 from the sample of 91 banks passed the testing, so they should be able to survive even a double-digit recession should one materialise in Europe. |
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Backed by its positioning in fluid dynamics services with high added value, Mindware thus recorded again a double-digit growth in activity in 2009, with sales totalling 5.2 million euros. |
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Leading economists reported to us on the experiences of other developed countries in attempting to understand and wrestle with double-digit rates of growth in drug plan spending. |
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And with good reason: for a number of years, suppliers and consumer goods manufacturers in Brazil have been chalking up double-digit increases in sales. |
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Most positively, the private banking business again delivered double-digit net new money growth, evidencing that our underlying capacity for growth remains intact. |
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Box wine brands saw double-digit increases and consumers began purchasing smaller 187-ml wine bottles, primarily for consumption at outdoor events. |
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That will require fundamental change for a country that has fallen from the headiest days of double-digit growth, and now faces a raft of problems. |
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Scanning probe microscopy continues to contribute double-digit growth. |
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