| 21. | On the other end of the economic scale, some beloved discount sub-run theaters reeled at the added competition and closed up shop.
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| 22. | A huge sell-off, followed by further declines in spending by scared consumers _ could tip the economic scales toward a global recession.
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| 23. | But if we look at the financial loss, China and Japan made software companies lose more due to their much bigger economic scales.
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| 24. | Even in another 10 years, she said, the states of the old East Germany might not match the west on every economic scale.
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| 25. | At the other end of the economic scale, Guyana, Surname's destitute neighbor, has opened up two-thirds of its forest mass to foreign companies.
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| 26. | He said they are often young men at the lower end of the economic scale who are under the influence of drugs or alcohol.
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| 27. | They all share a few characteristics _ overwhelmingly white, Christian, gun owners and stuck on the lower rungs of the economic scale, he said.
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| 28. | Formerly known as one of the poorest regencies in Central Java, Grobogan now is the 18 in the economic scale, out of 35 regencies.
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| 29. | Meanwhile, the decline in military living standards has put the military " at the low end of the country's economic scale, " the study said.
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| 30. | They're moving up the economic scale . . . . You start with unskilled labor-intensive industry, and you slowly move up to skilled-labor activities ."
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