Word: quarterly
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Dates: during 2010-2019
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...Cardinal announced that its second-quarter revenue increased 3%, to $25 billion, supplemented by a 38% increase in profit on the medical-supply side. But perhaps even better news came when AmerisourceBergen and McKesson unveiled their earnings a few days earlier. Whereas a year ago, one of the two might have boasted about winning some of Cardinal's business, this time around, says Gill, "the same competitor is saying the exact opposite: 'We think all of our competitors are in good places, and given the stickiness, we don't expect any big accounts to change hands.'" In other words, Cardinal...
...years ago, Dani Shapiro began suffering from what she calls an "is-this-all-there-is despondency," a spiritual malaise she chronicles in her new memoir, Devotion (HarperCollins; 245 pages). She had her farmhouse with a quarter-mile-long driveway, a sweetheart of a husband, an adorable son and a thriving career as a novelist, but something was missing...
More than a quarter of the country sits below sea level, so flood control is a major priority. Thus, when canals freeze over, Dutch fans explain that skating on them is cathartic. We have conquered our enemy. Let's celebrate by running our blades all over it! Skating is so ingrained in Dutch DNA that fans talk about one particular race, the "Eleven-City Tour," with the sort of reverence normally shown by global soccer fans for their favorite teams. The Eleven-City Tour is a 125-mile skate over frozen lakes and canals in the northern Dutch province...
Though about a quarter of league schedule remains to be played, the ECAC conference tournament is already in mind for teams and coaches in the 12 team league. “With the way our league is and how teams flip-flop from game to game we still need to have a great last six games and finish strong,” Union coach Nate Leaman said...
...theory about Bill Clinton: his philandering worked in his favor politically, especially with a demographic chunk that usually shies away from liberalism: American working guys. It made him more accessible. Here was a fellow who got it on with faded lounge singers and then celebrated with a Double Quarter Pounder and fries at the local McDonald's. If that ain't pickup-truck nirvana, what is? Democrats haven't produced many such men of the people; they produce law-professor presidents, a theme Palin launched in Nashville that we will be hearing a lot more frequently in the future...