Yes, it sold vast numbers of devices but the bloom was off the rose.

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See the Casey Institute's Security Forum entitled The Bloom Comes Off the Rose of 'China, Inc.

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You know, obviously, the bloom is off the rose of the Bush administration.

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Obviously people are saying the bloom is off the rose and all of that sort of thing but the five year anniversary, are you celebrating it unmixedly?

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The bloom is off the rose in the sector.

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Nevertheless, the bloom is off the rose.

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It seems that despite enthusiasm about the direction of the market as a whole, for many investors the bloom is coming off the rose for big banks.

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The bloom came off that false rose on Sunday when Mustafa Abdul-Jalil, the chairman of the National Transitional Council, repeatedly declared his government's fealty to shariah, Islam's brutally repressive, totalitarian political-military-legal doctrine.

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But by January 2010, the bloom had begun to come off the rose in a big way.

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Even the thousands of roses at the Flemington racecourse are timed to bloom for The Cup, and a gentleman without a yellow rose on his lapel might as well be naked.

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