This would immediately bring Alpha coal within the first quartile of the cash-cost curve of global coal producers.

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The hot-growth fourth quartile showed an 8% return, slightly better than the skanky first quartile's 7.5%.

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The laggard first-quartile companies, which reported that sales shrank on average by 3.4% a year over the period, included such problem children as 7-Eleven, Unisys and Owens-Illinois.

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Yet, as our own Kurt Badenhausen pointed out last month, The Badger State has ranked in the bottom quartile of our annual Best States for Business ranking since we first started doing it in 2006.

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