The expanded product lines that have stretched Staples and Office Depot past pencils and paper clips and into computers and scanners might have something to do with it.
Dr Ng retorts that he is surprised Dr Lieu's paper got past the refereeing process.
This is something that we had never been able to do in the past other than on paper.
However, during the past two decades the paper's circulation has gone into free fall, declining to just over a million today.
In the past few years the paper has suffered repeated staff cuts.
For the past decade, the paper's English owners have been chipping away at this once proud newspaper, which has until relatively recently been Scotland's best-selling daily newspaper.
It was a tantalising prospect of a lot of lucre looking out from the front of a Sunday paper this past weekend, potentially transforming the debate on Scotland's economic future.
Each person read one bullet as he walked past them, holding the paper next to the camera.
But try telling that to all the dotcommers who have seen their stock options turn into toilet paper in the past few months.
In the three force areas where just two candidates are standing - Dyfed-Powys, North Yorkshire and Staffordshire - registered voters will be presented with a familiar "first past the post" ballot paper.
Their signing for Edinburgh takes the total number of players to 16 who have put pen to paper over the past few weeks as the club continues to build the squad for next season.
The paper based on past information rather than the ones assuming about the future shows that there is a boost to growth from the move from dial up to slow broadband (2 Mbits or so) but nothing observable after that.
The CEO of a midsize investment-grade utility recently recounted to mehow in times past such backups for his commercial paper were readily, rapidly oversubscribed.
The CEO of a midsize investment-grade utility recently recounted to me how in times past such backups for his commercial paper were readily, rapidly oversubscribed.
Recent economic history yields no precedents for 10-year Treasuries under 2 percent and 30-year paper under 3 percent these past 60 years.
He set out his reasons in a paper analysing policy in the past two cycles published the day before the pre-budget report.
Even before this past week, the Rogoff-Reinhart paper had its limitations.
But having spent the past 23 years running Alcoa and International Paper, O'Neill and his wife Nancy Jo were looking to step back and enjoy life for a while.
The majority of the changes at the WSJ over the past 3 years (Murdoch bought the paper in the summer of 2007) can only be understood in terms of positioning the paper as a NYT-killer.
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Nonetheless, it still defined the dollar as a fixed weight of gold, and for 20 years supported economic results for all Americans that were far superior to those produced by the paper dollar system of the past 42 years.
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In the past day or so, nearly every paper has carried a review of the new play Who's the Daddy, which centres on the sexual shenanigans which went on last year at the Spectator magazine and included then Home Secretary David Blunkett.
The English Sats paper has attracted criticism in the past - and generally accounts for most of the requests for re-marks.
The market has in the past struggled to support more than one daily paper, seesawing between two loss-making operations and a single profitable monopoly.
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Former Fleet Street journalist Yvonne Ridley, who has stood for the party in the past, will be described on the ballot paper as the Respect (George Galloway) candidate.
After crawling through a small, pitch-black hole in the debris, making their way past sharp metal parts, pieces of office paper, and pulverized concrete, they use listening devices and night-vision cameras to search for anyone alive.
During the past few months, yields on long term muni paper went through the roof, from 4.75% to 6.5%.
These examples range chronologically from incidents that occurred in the late 1980s and early 1990s, to events that have happened within the past few weeks prior to the publication of this paper.
The latest audited industry figures showed circulation at The Scotsman fell by nearly 10% over the past year to 38, 000, while its sister paper, Scotland on Sunday, was down nearly 14% to 47, 500.
Under the management of the Federal Reserve, the value of our paper dollar has fallen 80% in the past 40 years and fluctuates daily providing little trust in what it will be worth a year from now.
Malaysia's media, never the most outspoken, has been further cowed over the past year by the takeover of a Chinese-language paper by a group sympathetic to the government, and the sacking of some of the more adventurous journalists at an English-language one.
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