The actionable demand for luxury goods and services, on the whole, is flat and still substantially below the levels of two to three years ago.

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It's unexplainable how flat the whole thing looked for the whole game, it's a mystery for me.

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An unbelievable nine minutes of injury time was played at the end of the first half, but the game as a whole was fairly flat, probably as a result of the early injury to Leighton.

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Even if the government offers insurers a preferential deal on restructured debt, the whole industry has been knocked flat.

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Featuring a 20-inch screen, this mobile desktop PC can lay flat on a coffee table for the whole family to play games on the large screen.

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They maintain they are confident the whole law will stand, but they don't want to be caught flat-footed if it doesn't.

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But its troubles have highlighted the whole industry's financial crisis, which most firms lay at the feet of flat fees.

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With the whole array done in what look like overripe Techicolor hues, the stage looked variously gaudy and flat.

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The group enjoyed strong demand for flat screen TVs and digital cameras, and forecast a "satisfactory" outlook over the whole year.

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The first fight began as soon as they left the house: she has a memory of dozing through whole cycles of shouts and squealing and that odd, flat roar Shawn has started to produce whenever he truly loses himself and just rages.

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