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For Ford, there were also issues of poor manufacturing quality and supplier disruptions that threatened its profits.

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This therapist is a poor listener; that one’s a pill-pusher; the one recommended by your seemingly well-adjusted good friend has nothing to offer but platitudes better suited for bumper stickers.

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Pep Guardiola on Friday criticised pundits and former players for rushing to judgement after Manchester City's poor start to the season as he targets the Premier League summit.

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So, soon, because of the prices made artificially high by tariffs that subsidize inefficiency and poor management, people stop buying.

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Labour is nursing its wounds after a truly appalling result, coming a poor third in a part of the world it has owned for more than a century.

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

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