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The reading topped the 49.4 forecast from economists surveyed by The Wall Street Journal and ended an eight-month run below the 50 mark that separates expansion and contraction.
The Visitors' Gallery mirrors the chamber, with its wood panelling and green benches, although a glass security screen separates spectators from participants.
From BBC
One of the settlement’s most onerous requirements—at which investment banks have bristled for years—was the firewall that separates investment banking from research analysts.
Their measurements also revealed emergent photon signals near zero energy -- a defining trait that separates quantum spin ice from more familiar phases found in conventional magnets.
From Science Daily
U.S. factory activity has contracted for nine straight months, with the Institute for Supply Management’s purchasing managers index for manufacturing at 48.2 in November, below the 50 mark that separates expansion from contraction.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
