The soft top line is pressuring margins.
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He was travelling in an unmarked 4x4 soft-top vehicle when it was ambushed.
"We believe that the Evoque lends itself beautifully to the idea of a convertible, " said Land Rover design director Gerry McGovern, though the company has not yet decided whether the soft-top will go into production.
There are reports that they doctored bottles of soft drinks so the top half contained ordinary, non-lethal substance and the bottom half, the liquid explosives.
"Staying on top of soft skills such as critical thinking and time management while maintaining expertise in hard skills such as widely-used software programs provides candidates and employees with a necessary edge, " says Christian Idiodi, director of CBInstitute.com, a division of CareerBuilder.com that offers online courses and certifications.
Beverage sales volume in the U.S. and Europe was soft, though Pepsi said top-line trends improved in its North American beverage business.
Weighing in at just over a pound, the inMotion Air's sleek industrial design features top-mounted controls, soft-texture finish and an ergonomic handle in the back for easy carrying.
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Global soft-drink seller PepsiCo said that top-line sales were hurt in the second quarter by consumers in developed markets who are cutting out carbonated beverages from their daily budgets.
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Top it off with a soft-boiled egg and a few cilantro sprigs, and you've got a meal that takes a mere 25 minutes and makes the slog of winter fade into distant memory.
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After more than a year of development on the new shoe line, Volcom brought together between 50 and 100 of its top retail accounts and did a soft launch in California and New York.
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Kennedy's top became a prototype for a seamless soft-cup bra she named Sassybax.
Both the iLoud and iLoud Mini sport a soft-touch rubber-esque coating on the top and bottom that we've seen in other Bluetooth audio units.
In the chef's second Slow Food Fast contribution, seared spring onions, boiled new potatoes, a soft-boiled egg and plump, sweet peas top a pool of creamy, herbal green goddess dressing.
While Gonzaga held the top spot in the AP Top 25 over the final weeks of the season, skeptics thought of the Bulldogs as a soft No. 1 seed that benefited from a relatively easy schedule in the West Coast Conference while other top contenders were getting banged around in the power conferences.
Even politicians thought to be soft on the Taliban, like Imran Khan, along with top military commander General Ashfaq Kiyani, have condemned the attack and visited the hospital.
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On top of that, support for all the candidates is soft: Just 44 percent of GOP likely voters said they "strongly support" their choice.
On its back, two strips of soft-touch plastic break the back into segments: a removable bit up top that houses the 3.5mm headphone jack, a micro-SIM, a vacant microSD slot (the phone comes with 16GB of internal storage) and a fixed piece at the bottom, above which you'll find the Xperia logo.
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When Coca-Cola, for instance, planned to take over a local Chinese soft drinks company a few years ago, Chinese hackers were discovered to have accessed top-secret memos on how much the Americans were willing to pay.
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As for the dress itself: It was beautiful, elegant, timeless white satin, with a soft, blooming skirt with a 2-meter train, and lace applique on the top.
Barsh and Cranston ultimately aim to inspire and drive more women to the top echelons of leadership, yet they no doubt will lose some readers along the way with the soft language and tone of self help that infuse the book.
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