Some analysts were attributing part of the unexpected drop-off to one-time factors such as unusually hot summer weather, which has left many parents and kids less than eager to shop for clothes with legs and long sleeves.

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With all this activity, the rest of the summer should be a hot one at Fab.

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The summer has been a hot one, politically as well as out in the sun.

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Mrs Youngman said a recent scorching hot summer led to the young of one colony emerging onto a sticky felt roof where many of them became stuck and perished.

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It feels like one of those uninhabited towns in a cowboy movie, an abandoned movie set with tumbleweeds flying in the hot summer wind.

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The beer on tap happened to be one I've been trying unsuccessfully to find for years in New York after experiencing it on a hot summer afternoon in Spain Estrella Damm.

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