The company also said on Thursday that it was cutting about 80 jobs, mainly in sales, as part of an effort to automate and streamline the way its daily deals are sourced and distributed.

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It was thus mainly propaganda, to convince China's own people and the outside world that the government was serious about stimulating demand at home.

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But that happened, and then there were a series of apologies and theories about how to fix it, but mainly, there was the thought that the people who sell these sun rooms, like the one they sold to us, are going to sell like 10 jillion more of just bragging that elevators can fall from the sky and it still won't break.

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Actually, it was not even mentioned a single time as both candidates spoke mainly about Iran as well as the Asia-Pacific region.

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