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“I think this decision shows Under Armour’s inability to connect with teen males,” retail expert Powell told MarketWatch.

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That linguistic timidity —our inability to name what’s happening — is itself a form of complicity, and the result of a combination of fear and fecklessness.

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Despite their inability to add water to the pools, the helicopter flights marked a change in fortune for the workers at the plant.

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Depression also comes with anhedonia, or the inability to experience pleasure in activities or social situations that were once enjoyable.

And the population's initial support for the junta "is beginning to erode in the face of the military regime's inability to keep its security promise", he added.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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