It is obviously a sore spot, Gordin, a friend, says.
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The renminbi continued to be a sore spot on Thursday.
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But there's a sore spot between the U.S. and NATO.
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"There is a sore spot" on capital gains, Ellis said.
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This is a major sore spot for lots of vape companies.
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The situation around the Pixel XL is the real sore spot.
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There remains one clear sore spot at Twitter, though: monthly users.
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Textbook costs have long been a sore spot for college students.
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How could they not realize that this is a sore spot?
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Lopez and his colleagues have obviously hit upon a sore spot.
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China's currency, the renminbi, continued to be a sore spot on Thursday.
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But that wasn't the only sore spot for the Yankees left fielder.
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Soaring deductibles have been a sore spot among many Americans for years.
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The issue has always been a sore spot between the two men.
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The death of family patriarch Jack, for instance, is a weekly sore spot.
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Cooling has been a sore spot with gaming-focused smartphones in the past.
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That said, PRASM measures will still be a sore spot in tomorrow's report.
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The subject was mobile operating system adoption, a noted sore spot for Google.
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However, it can also be a sore spot that video games touch, too.
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At other times, girls roll their eyes when adults poke at a sore spot.
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South America is an especially sore spot for all three Detroit automakers, Gabrielsen said.
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Yet, out of those tough eliminations, one woman's farewell really hit a sore spot.
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But it's still a sore spot for me that they didn't keep me on.
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The emails found on Mr. Weiner's computer are a sore spot for Mrs. Clinton.
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The recusal has become a sore spot in the relationship between Trump and Sessions.
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That sounds like basic functionality, but MMS has been a longtime sore spot for Voice.
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Its training has been a sore spot throughout the investigation into its 737 MAX aircraft.
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In any case, I expect that this will be a sore spot for some people.
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He likens Mr Trump to a hockey player who repeatedly pokes an injured opponent's sore spot.
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Nick: For me, the Maggie story is a sore spot in an otherwise really solid episode.
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It's the biggest sore spot in the show, and persistent throughout the entire six-episode season.
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A lack of share buybacks has long been a sore spot for foreign investors in Japan.
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The recent downing of a Russian jet has created a sore spot for Turkey and China.
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And while his record on policing was a sore spot, some gave him credit for apologizing.
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His refusal to more formally embrace the party has been a sore spot with some Democrats.
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The only sore spot are the giant bezels around the screen, which are decidedly passé in 2017.
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Not only was the prior system a sore spot for developers, it was bad for consumers, too.
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Judging from how Mr. Trump responded in Thursday's debate, the subject is a sore spot for him.
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Indeed he should, as ICANN's lax enforcement of domain name abuses has long been a sore spot.
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Differences over the nature of the discrimination that each group faces remain something of a sore spot.
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Content moderation and deciding what counts as political speech has historically been a sore spot for Facebook.
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Nevertheless, it appears to be the sore spot that Mr. Einhorn, who also directed, wanted to poke.
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"The slightly sore spot is Pittsburgh's routes," a weekly email on internal metrics ATG staffers received read.
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Clearly, Weedman is a sore spot for local government, something of a perpetual middle finger to the establishment.
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The farm sector has generally been supportive of Macri, but the conflict with Monsanto remains a sore spot.
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Trump talks about Electoral College Losing the popular vote appears to be a sore spot for the President.
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Even in other relatively strong jobs reports, like last month's, wage growth has been a glaring sore spot.
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One particular sore spot for Twitter financially is the amount it shells out in equity to its employees.
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The president's repeated visits to Mar-a-Lago have been an increasing sore spot from a security standpoint.
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Compensation is expected to be a sore spot for some investors at the company's annual meeting on Friday.
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While P&G's shaving business has rebounded more recently, it has been a sore spot for the company.
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In Lower Manhattan, where there has been a flurry of construction, sidewalk sheds have become a sore spot.
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The 56-island Kuril chain has been a sore spot in Japan-Russia relations for the past 72 years.
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The Chamber of Commerce, which is friendly to Ryan, backed Marshall hard, which is another sore spot for conservatives.
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There's no immediate help for that, but the sore spot that it touches may usefully be kept in mind.
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It's part of a bigger controversy The announcement also hit another sore spot for the Warwick Public Schools community.
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At Yahoo, the program, known internally as Q.P.R., has been a sore spot among managers and employees since it began.
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Pitching has been a sore spot for the Brewers, who have permitted at least four runs in 10 consecutive contests.
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Argentina once again was a sore spot, with volume declining by double digits as the country's recession continued into 20083.
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This touched a sore spot: many Jews feel that Poland historically did not consider its Jews to be fully Polish.
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One sore spot: the lack of a stream for Mr. Schaap's memorial for the pianist Paul Bley on Jan. 5.
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Banana Republic, a sore spot for Gap in recent years, reported a surprise rise in comparable sales for the quarter.
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That decision -- and the impact it clearly had on the election -- has been a very sore spot since November 8.
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But the DHS's handling of the proposed restructuring has long been a sore spot between the administration and the committee.
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Homelessness has become a particularly sore spot, with President Trump repeatedly criticizing California cities for their management of the issue.
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While the Apple TV has had support for Siri, lack of voice search has been a sore spot for users.
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American exports of PRT-treated chicken have been rejected by the EU since 1997, and the issue remains a sore spot.
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Traffic caused by Trump's motorcade is the most recent sore spot for the people of Palm Beach and the surrounding area.
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The bilateral trade deficit, the biggest sore spot of this administration, touched a record monthly high in September, according to Datastream.
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One ad was essentially a montage of photos of Christie and Obama after Superstorm Sandy, a sore spot with conservative voters.
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Exxon showed some glimmers of hope on the production front, a recent sore spot given the spike in US oil output.
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Taking the company private, a status in which Musk's other company SpaceX remains, is a sore spot for the billionaire entrepreneur.
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Ratings, however, have long been a sore spot for many drivers whose ability to work depends on maintaining a certain rating.
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But the president's smug invocation of the Western symphonic heritage also pressed a sore spot for me as a music critic.
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The deployment of NATO missile defense systems in countries near Russia has been a sore spot between Moscow and the West.
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Vehicles and auto parts account for most of the $64 billion U.S. trade deficit with Mexico, a sore spot for Trump.
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Technology has been a particular sore spot for foreign firms operating in China, with Microsoft Corp being investigated for anti-trust violations.
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As Sarah noted recently, lyrics and a lack of voice support have been a growing sore spot for the service of late.
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Two former employees said his trip to Burning Man late in the summer of 2016 was a particularly sore spot among clients.
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Wheat remains the soft ags' sore spot, down 13 percent this year and struggling since its year-to-date high in June.
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"A trade conflict with the U.S. would hit what is already metastasizing into a sore spot for the Chinese economy," CBB said.
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Perhaps the biggest push is in China, which is the largest auto market in the world and a sore spot for Ford.
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Still, Siri, Apple's smart voice assistant, remains a sore spot for some Apple watchers, who have compared it unfavorably to Amazon Alexa.
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The CFPB has been a sore spot among GOP leaders who view the bureau as the poster child for postcrisis regulatory overreach.
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Taiwan is a sore spot for Chinese relations because it is considered a rogue province by Beijing, rather than an independent country.
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It's a dynamic that quickly emerged as a sore spot for the president and underscored the magnitude of the opposition toward him.
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That process, which is a sore spot for many accounts that post viral videos, will remain separate, according to an Instagram spokesperson.
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The Taycan is also something of a sore spot for Musk, even though it has a smaller range than Tesla's comparable vehicles.
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And with the military justice system moving at a crawl, the cost is a particular sore spot for critics of the prison.
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The China division has been a sore spot for the company, burdened with low occupancy rates and intense competition from local players.
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When it comes to songs leaking, it's such a sore spot especially for us considering how many songs leaked in the past.
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Those duties have become a sore spot in relations between the U.S. and some of its closest allies, including Canada, France and Germany.
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READ MORE: Remote control: Companies blur lines over who owns devices Japan's love of tiny cars a sore spot for Trump On Jan.
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Complaining that he was mistreated in the Democratic primaries (an old complaint that's still a sore spot for some of his supporters) 3.
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The blocking of bus and bike lanes has become a sore spot among transportation advocates who believe the city's enforcement efforts are inadequate.
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They went 0-5 in their exhibition games and their defense, which had been such a sore spot last season, looked even worse.
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This week on War College, we're looking at this global sore spot and asking just how heated is the situation likely to get.
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When the Constitution was being written in the late 3003s, intellectuals knew caste was a sore spot that needed to be urgently addressed.
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Awards aren't everything — not to mention they're both political and subjective — but the loss still feels like a sore spot in Pixar's history.
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Japan still considers those four islands part of its territory, a sore spot in relations between the two countries for the past 71 years.
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Another sore spot is Ileana D'Cruz whose role as Amay's wife is so superfluous that she was probably roped in just for the songs.
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As CNN's Sara Murray tells us, the backlash about Trump's visit and the federal help has been a sore spot for the White House.
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Though he wasn't prone to complaining, one sore spot for Harrison was the neglect over decades from his hometown orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony.
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He pinpointed Sessions' decision to recuse himself from the Russia investigation -- a longtime sore spot for the President -- as an act of deep disloyalty.
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The exchange didn't slow the show's pace, but did hit a sore spot with viewers familiar with the Middle East's geography and political turmoil.
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His refusal to run as a Democrat in his campaigns for the US Senate has been a sore spot for many in the party.
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Israel, then, will continue to be a sore spot for the Democratic party and arguably the most important foreign policy issue of the primaries.
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Particularly, the lack of a universally agreed method of calculating how much time people are watching online video has been a sore spot for advertisers.
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Meghan Markle's family seems to be the one (extremely) sore spot in her otherwise fairytale life since her wedding to Prince Harry back in May.
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It is also a sore spot for the Liberal National government as it fights a close election campaign ahead of a vote on May 18.
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The controversial cleric denies being involved, and his extradition, which the U.S. has refused to grant, has become a sore spot in U.S.-Turkish relations.
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Political ads have been a sore spot for Facebook since the 2016 election, when Russian trolls with links to the Kremlin bought ads targeting Americans.
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Rural Americans recognize that this is how it must be, as the cities are where most of the people are, yet it's a sore spot.
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The company made $52.9 billion in revenue, but iPhone sales were a bit of a sore spot after a comedown from Q1 2017's record haul.
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Protecting personal information is a sore spot for many in government, Wiswell explained, who want to avoid a repeat of the Office of Personnel Management hack.
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Hiring women comedians is a sore spot of mine, as men comedians often get a pass for poor acting in favor of bravado/charisma/male privilege.
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Oculus' ambitions have also become a sore spot with some on Wall Street, who have questioned whether the virtual reality technology can beat rivals to market.
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If they could just tone down the rhetoric about wanting dead cops, and now that Dallas has happened and Baton Rouge, it's hit a sore spot.
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The shipbuilding budget was a particular sore spot for Republicans who have slammed Trump's $603 billion defense budget request as too small to rebuild the military.
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When Deutsche Bank owned the Cosmopolitan hotel in Las Vegas and would not negotiate with the union, union members poked at a sore spot — in Washington.
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The proper relationship with Europe has apparently been a sore spot between the parties, and between the parties and Mr. Mattarella, in this week's tense negotiations.
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Russian meddling in the election has been a sore spot for the Trump administration, and Mr. Trump has repeatedly denied that he benefited from Moscow's interference.
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Scorsese, Mendes and Tarantino are highly regarded in the industry, but the lack of female directors has been a sore spot for many in recent years.
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Linebacker Ryan Shazier, one of the fastest in the league, will be a sore spot for the Patriots when the Steelers threaten to blitz up the middle.
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The Oculus business has been a sore spot for Wall Street analysts, who have questioned whether Oculus is on track to make money as competitors jump ahead.
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Piazza addressed a sore spot for Reggiana at a presser last Friday, in which he lamented that Reggiana has to pay another team for their own stadium.
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While Japan's on the cutting edge when it comes to viral mobile games, technology, and more, its reliance on disposable wooden chopsticks has been a sore spot.
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The remaining players are continuing to sort out how to balance the expense of paying claims with premium increases, which has been a sore spot with policyholders.
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But Trump clearly struck a sore spot in long-simmering U.S.-Russian relations that precede the sanctions, imposed in 93 when Russia illegally annexed Crimea: strategic parity.
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But Trump clearly struck a sore spot in long-simmering U.S.-Russian relations that precede the sanctions, imposed in 2729 when Russia illegally annexed Crimea: strategic parity.
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But gentrification in many of the city's neighborhoods has become a sore spot as single-family bungalows are replaced by high-density townhouses for younger, wealthier residents.
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Facebook's poor diversity numbers have been a sore spot for the company for years, and while they've improved in some areas, that improvement has been relatively small.
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But it touched a long-running sore spot in the video game community: the nebulous power copyright law gives developers over the people who build on their work.
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This has been a sore spot for immigration hardliners, who understood Trump's campaign promise to roll back President Obama's "unconstitutional executive orders" as a promise to end DACA.
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Energy loans have been a sore spot for banks in recent quarters due to the long-running oil price rout that put many borrowers in dire financial straits.
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Sessions's recusal became a constant sore spot for the two men, leading to the former attorney general being ousted from the administration shortly after the 2018 midterm elections.
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Bernie Sanders in 2016 continues to be a sore spot, the DCCC putting its finger on the scale could do more harm than good for a preferred candidate.
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But Sanders is drawing attention to a recurring sore spot for Amazon, which has defended itself against numerous reports of rigid micromanagement, low pay, and dangerous warehouse conditions.
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It is a story line that has been largely debunked, but it remains a sore spot with many Kew Gardenites who are tired of people's asking about it.
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The decision became a constant sore spot for the two men, culminating in the former attorney general being ousted from the Justice Department shortly after the midterm elections.
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While Mr. Robbins sharply scaled back his fund's exposure, he held on to Tenet Healthcare, the large hospital chain, which is now a sore spot in his portfolio.
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Earlier this month, another Bloomberg ad prompted a testy and inaccurate response from Trump over health care, a sore spot for the president in his own internal polling.
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Compared with the raw antagonism of the Giuliani years, racial conflict in the city subsided substantially under Bloomberg, yet his overly aggressive policing would remain a sore spot.
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While most are happy with the content provided by Apple Music, the confusing UI has always been a sore spot for the service, something today's update hopes to fix.
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The new terms also go into far more detail on how Facebook uses personal data to target ads, which is a sore spot in a number of congressional hearings.
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In US M&A revenue — a sore spot last year — the firm moved up to sixth after dropping to ninth in the first half of 2018, according to Dealogic.
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As she arose to set out a feast she had spent three days preparing, Vakhtang Torotadze, the shop owner, entered the graveyard, caressing a sore spot on his chest.
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If there was a sore spot for the Red Raiders, it was that their offense struggled after scoring 22 and 33 points in its first two wins of the season.
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THAAD is a sore spot for China, which considers the system a threat in the region, though the US insists its purely to guard against the North Korean missile threat.
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I bring up journalists because that's a sore spot for many academics, a case where experts resent would-be polymaths hopping out of their lanes, like Naomi Wolf writing history.
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Those issues have been a sore spot between lawmakers, the Navy, and the shipbuilder, but the last six months have seen marked progress, according to the service's top civilian official.
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At the same time, he is trying to boost returns for shareholders by improving profits in businesses including asset management, where target date funds have been a particular sore spot.
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The Dewey prosecution has been a bit of a sore spot for Cyrus R. Vance Jr., the Manhattan district attorney, after beginning with a flourish of press attention in March 2014.
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Now, with total GOP control of Congress and the presidency, revenues have been cut while spending has increased — the opposite of fiscal conservatism and a sore spot with many GOP voters.
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We chat about my old firm (she's still there, and it's somewhat of a sore spot for me, but oh well), my new job, and her life as a new mom.
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The subject is a sore spot for the president, who has chafed at the special counsel investigation into whether his campaign cooperated with the Kremlin's efforts to intervene in the election.
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And the plush memory foam that might seem awesome at first touch could ultimately be inadequate to prevent you from developing a sore spot from wearing headphones with a badly designed headband.
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The issue's neglect had been a sore spot for activists on both sides of the issue, and so the mere fact that Wallace asked about it counted as a victory of sorts.
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Taxes have long been a sore spot for small businesses, which is one of the reasons optimism soared as President Donald Trump took office and began the process of overhauling the law.
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When it comes to another Amazon sore spot — its impact on small business — Republicans are more likely to think the company has been a negative, but not by such a wide margin.
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The decision to go with Samsung is no doubt a sore spot for Apple, which has had a tight partnership with Disney for decades, including numerous product crossovers and shared board members.
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Trump recently conceded that President Barack Obama was in fact born in the United States, a claim the GOP nominee falsely suggested otherwise for years — a sore spot for some African Americans.
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"It hit a sore spot that a robot has citizenship and my daughter doesn't," Hadeel Shaikh, a Saudi woman whose four-year-old child with a Lebanese man does not have citizenship.
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Starbucks (SBUX) credited cold drinks, like cold brew coffees, for bolstering its bottom line and helping to kickstart sales in the afternoon, which previously has been a sore spot for the company.
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The president's decision to transfer the outpost from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem has been a sore spot for Palestinians, whose leadership cut off contact with the White House after the December announcement.
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China's goods surplus with the United States, a sore spot in relations between the two nations, hit a record high of $275.81 billion last year - topping the previous record in 2015 of $260.8 billion.
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China's goods surplus with the United States, a sore spot in relations between the two nations, narrowed slightly last month but is higher so far this year than at the same point last year.
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Operating profit in North America, which has been a sore spot for Toyota over the past two years, more than doubled during the quarter as benefits of measures to cut vehicle discounts filtered through.
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Even PETA's botched attempt to raise awareness about animal abuse—something so ingrained in our workaday world that it lurks largely unremarked in many of our most common phrases—had touched a sore spot.
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The big picture: Trump's broad tariffs against Chinese goods concern Beijing, but the Commerce Department going after ZTE — a state-owned enterprise in a strategic sector — hit a sore spot for the Communist Party.
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I got my very favorite clue of the day early (and felt so clever for having figured it out — TOENAIL), then got INTENSIFY, GARNET and SORE SPOT, and I thought I might cruise through.
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The only sore spot for Goldman during the quarter was investment banking, where revenue fell 6% to $2.1 billion, hurt by lower M&A advisory fees, as well as a slowdown in corporate lending.
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The push shows how a polished multimillion-dollar space meant to be a gathering spot for veterans of the intelligence world has transformed into a sore spot for some key figures in the community.
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I got my very favorite clue of the day early (and felt so clever for having figured it out — TOENAIL), then got INTENSIFY, GARNET and SORE SPOT, and I thought I might cruise through.
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Dragonball Evolution, which featured Justin Chatwin and Emmy Rossum as Goku and Bulma (and a green-faced James Marsters as villain Piccolo), is a sore spot for 27-year-old attendee Terrence Tao as well.
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Access to personal health records has been a sore spot for many patients, with some systems requiring them to have to ask permission for their own information to share with other doctors and hospital systems.
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Castro recognized the issue was a sore spot for the former vice president under President Barack Obama, who was nicknamed the "deporter in chief" by immigration activists prior to the arrival of President Donald Trump.
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It's a subject that hits home for a lot of women, a sore spot rubbed raw from too many disrespectful portrayals, reflected in the backlash the film's been receiving online since its trailer dropped in February.
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Logitech increased its guidance twice during the current financial year due to robust sales in its devices for gaming, video conferencing and tablet computers, although a decline in mobile speaker sales has been a sore spot.
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Perception of white nationalism has become a sore spot and the subject of online debate among the alt-right, alt-lite, and their fellow far-right groups since Charlottesville sparked such a widespread backlash against them.
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After polling restaurant owners, Price found he'd hit a sore spot: They loathed the process of hiring and managing a delivery staff, but had to keep up with consumers' increasing demand for take-out and delivery.
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This actually seems like this is kind of a sore spot for Nadella: Elsewhere in the book, he writes about the importance of individual empowerment, encouraging people to take responsibility for the contributions they can make.
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Crowd sizes have long been both something to brag about and a sore spot for Trump, who allegedly had his inauguration photos edited so that the number of attendees would appear greater, according to The Guardian.
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In its most recent earnings, Starbucks credited cold drinks, like cold brew coffees, for bolstering its bottom line and helping to kickstart sales in the afternoon, which previously has been a sore spot for the company.
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The distribution of goods within the island has become a sore spot for critics of the administration's response, as commodities piled up in the ports with local truck drivers unable to reach their places of work.
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And issues surrounding race relations with the African American community in his hometown of South Bend, where he was mayor for eight years, has proven to be a sore spot for Buttigieg on the campaign trail.
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The Hollywood Reporter noted that issues with the script "continued to be a sore spot throughout Episode IX's development," prompting the studio to bring on Harry Potter and the Cursed Child screenwriter Jack Throne for a rewrite.
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The disparity of contracts awarded to minority firms has long been a sore spot between the national party and black and Latino strategists who feel like the party isn't prioritizing their commitment to recruiting diverse consulting firms.
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WEAK SPOTS REMAIN The big sore spot for both the Fed and the economy at large is a reluctance by U.S. businesses to spend, a hesitance Fed officials and corporate executives blame on Trump's unpredictable trade policy.
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Focus on Clintons, Obama administration Nunes' role has been a sore spot for Democrats on the committee, and the investigation into Russian meddling and possible collusion with the Trump campaign has frequently been roiled by partisan tensions.
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But despite his mealy mouthedness, he is a sore spot for the PGM team; he effectively loses his job as head of news over spinach (more on that later) and is definitely out by the final negotiation.
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Belgium has become a hot spot for jihadist radicalization, and the March ISIS terror attacks in Brussels are still a sore spot for many who don't understand that most Muslims oppose ISIS just as much as anyone.
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Coty's consumer beauty segment that includes brands such as Rimmel and Max Factor, remained a sore spot for the company, falling nearly 21 percent, weighed down by increased competition, higher promotional offers and its ongoing problems with distribution.
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In what might be one political sore spot, a printed crawl at the picture's end points out that in the years after the attack, Libya became a stronghold for the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL.
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Strange and the Kryptonians can certainly agree that they should fight Brainiac, but the need to save Krypton so it can be destroyed on schedule two generations later is likely to be a sore spot for the series.
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Derided when George Lucas started releasing them in 1999, The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones, and Revenge of the Sith have been a sore spot from the beginning, a cartoonish blemish given to an otherwise perfect franchise.
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CARACAS, Venezuela — The top United States diplomat in Venezuela urged the authorities there on Friday to ensure transparency in the case of a jailed American whose trial has become another sore spot in relations between the two nations.
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The trade data also showed China's goods surplus with the United States, historically a sore spot in relations between the two nations, narrowed last month as investors awaited U.S. President Donald Trump's arrival in Beijing later in the day.
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The B&W P7 Wireless were a pretty wonderful listen, and their construction was attractive and sturdy, but they caused a sore spot to develop at the top of my head if I listened to them for longer than an hour.
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The fact that Republican leaders were united with Democrats on last week's bill may have been a sore spot for Trump, who had an explosive meeting with top Republicans and Democrats in Congress shortly after the vote was taken last Wednesday.
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"Kourtney and Scott's relationship is a bit more complicated right now," a source told PEOPLE last month — noting that Kardashian's 24-year-old Younes Bendjima, whom she first met during a trip to Paris in October 2016, was a sore spot.
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In its latest move to weaponize the yuan, China is taking a big risk as the devaluation would lead to an exodus of capital, but it's also a sore spot for Trump as he has repeatedly protested the strong dollar.
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And so, the Spanish (for whom this remains a sore spot) keep playing silly buggers with things like being really uptight about air space and planes landing at Gibraltar's tiny airfield, or harassing intruders in or close to their territorial waters.
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Hog lagoons and the associated large-scale farms, also known as concentrated animal feeding operations, or CAFOs, have been a sore spot in the eastern part of the state, where residents say that the operations harm their health and well-being.
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But the power and gas division remained a sore spot, swinging to a loss of €139 million in the quarter as the collapse in demand for large gas-powered turbines persisted and it was hit by charges from cutting jobs.
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Like his prospective new boss, Mr. Tillerson is viewed here as more likely to cut deals than crack down on human rights violations, a sore spot for Bahrain, where the Obama administration has criticized the government for jailing political dissidents.
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It's unclear why the Democrats have already published theirs online—by mistake, perhaps, or to put pressure on the majority, for whom this entire debacle remains a sore spot, the leader of the Republican party being the primary beneficiary of the Russian games.
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MORE TOP STORIES Japan's love of tiny cars a sore spot for Trump Trump changes tack, backs 'one China' policy Trump then told Putin the treaty was one of several bad deals negotiated by the Obama administration, saying that New START favored Russia.
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MANILA, Philippines – Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has accepted an invitation to visit Israel next month in a sign of improving ties, which hit a sore spot early in his presidency when he compared his bloody anti-drug crackdown to Hitler and the Holocaust.
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Hembree didn't know the flying of the Confederate flag had long been -- and always would be -- a sore spot for many black residents, because he had seen no loud protests in the years before the killing of nine black people during Bible study.
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While House Republicans' storming of the hearing room last week was a pointless symbolic act, it's clear that the attacks from Trump and his GOP allies in Congress that all of this investigating was happening out of public sight was a sore spot for Democrats.
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In 1952, Elizabeth announced that her children would use the last name of "Windsor" when needed, although in 1958 she quietly changed the name to "Mountbatten-Windsor," perhaps a sign that the exclusion of his last name had become a sore spot for Philip.
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But seeing as there's been some tension simmering between the two cities for a while—Houston's on track to outstrip Chicago as America's third-largest metropolis, which is a sore spot—things are really heating up now that they both have big-ass metal beans.
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Subpoenas would continue to be a sore spot in the investigation, particularly when Lewandowski, former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon and former White House communications director Hope Hicks testified earlier this year and would not discuss events after Trump was in the White House.
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FIESTA BOWL Trace McSorley threw for 342 yards and had both of his touchdown passes to DaeSean Hamilton on third-down plays — a sore spot for much of the season — helping No. 9 Penn State outlast No. 12 Washington, 35-28, in Glendale, Ariz.
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TOKYO/DETROIT (Reuters) - When Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe meets on Friday with U.S. President Donald Trump, Japan's bulging automotive trade surplus will be a sore spot, but the path to balancing auto exports and imports will be no easier than it was in the 256s.
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That the gang is split up into smaller groups isn't as much of a sore spot here as it was in previous episodes (Eleanor, Chidi, and Janet go one way; Tahani, Jason, and Michael go another), but not having everyone together still slows down the action.
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U.S. manufacturing fell into recession for all of 22, according to data from the Federal Reserve, with industrial production dropping 22020 percent for the year — a sore spot for a president who promised his tough approach to trade would return robust factory growth to the American heartland.
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Yet the one joke that still hurts, the sore spot that even my closest friends will press, the one stereotype that I still mistakenly believe at the most inopportune bedroom moments — and I know Joe and Steve do as well — is that women don't want Asian men.
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British vets might have a particular sore spot about seeing the trend pop up in their neck of the woods, though, given that the supposed link between vaccines and autism was initially fueled by UK doctor Andrew Wakefield's since-retracted, fraudulent research published in the Lancet in 1998.
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These days relatively few Port Arthur residents actually work in the area facilities—a sore spot Beard and others attribute to corporate racial and geographic bias—and for years the once-thriving local economy has been deteriorating, leaving a town visually defined mostly by closed storefronts and vacant lots.
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That's surprising, as Siri is ubiquitous in Apple products -- from the iPhone to CarPlay to Apple TV. It also lags behind competitors like Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant in certain areas, which has to be a sore spot for Apple, since Siri predates these other personal assistants by several years.
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But missile defense was a particular sore spot, as the Pentagon's request of $7.9 billion for the Missile Defense Agency in next year's budget was more than $300 million lower than what Congress had appropriated in the current budget, according to an analysis from the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
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The plan, as explained by Symphony CEO David Gurle in an exclusive interview with Dan DeFrancesco, will be rolled out in the coming months and is meant to entice more buy-side users, long a sore spot of the firm, as it looks to gain traction helping facilitate complicated financial trades.
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The plan, as explained by Symphony CEO David Gurle in an exclusive interview with Business Insider, will be rolled out in the coming months and is meant to entice more buy-side firms, long a sore spot of the firm, as it looks to gain traction helping facilitate complicated financial trades.
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All of these former employees requested anonymity for one of two reasons: They are embarrassed by what they see as their naivete in believing such an outcome wasn't possible, or they still work in the industry and fear retribution for speaking out on a topic that is currently a sore spot at Gilt.
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This would address a sore spot for the prosecutors, who have argued that the guidelines ranges for the fraud charges that Ms. Huffman and others pleaded guilty to should be determined by how much each parent paid — which would have led in some cases to ranges of two or more years in prison.
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DON'T MISS: Japan's love of tiny cars sore spot as for Trump Exclusive: In call with Putin, Trump denounced Obama-era nuclear arms treaty The report said the first phase would be the smallest, targeting sections covering 26 miles (42 km) near San Diego, California; El Paso, Texas; and in Texas's Rio Grande Valley.
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The incentive to rush never revealed itself, but unnecessary step-backs and 18-foot jumpers were a frequent sore spot; instead of taking his time to survey the floor and flow into the next action, Griffin acted like his jump shots were a compromise between his body's long-term wellness and disheartening field goal percentage.
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Roby has had a history of robust wins in Alabama's Second Congressional District since she was elected to the House in 20163 — but many saw her lackluster primary performance as a direct result of comments she had levied against the president, a sore spot that Bright, a former Democrat turned Trump fan, hammered mercilessly in his campaign advertising.
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"I liked the part I was in, (because I was in it), but it still didn't make a hoot of sense" Anderson's non-involvement with the Twin Peaks revival is clearly a sore spot for the 63-year-old, who was born with the genetic disorder osteogenesis imperfecta and has appeared in several movies and TV shows including The X-Files and Carnivale.
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But it is led by Attorney General Jeff SessionsJefferson (Jeff) Beauregard SessionsDOJ should take action against China's Twitter propaganda Lewandowski says he's 'happy' to testify before House panel The Hill's Morning Report — Trump and the new Israel-'squad' controversy MORE, and the Flynn subpoenas are related to investigations of Russia's meddling in last year's presidential election, a sore spot for President Trump.
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University of Florida voter turnout expert Michael McDonald concluded for the Huffington Post that early voting results seem to be consistent with what polling has been telling us so far: Clinton has a slight edge in Florida and North Carolina, and has a bit of a sore spot in Iowa, where Trump is currently leading by 22012 points, according to the RealClearPolitics average.
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The insurance industry is associated with high-touch, low-frequency customer touch points, and it is that sore spot that has led to the quest by insurers to create more touch points — but in reality, forced business models on what should have been a short-lived engagement gadget (after all, how long should drivers be asked to validate they are safe drivers?) for many mass insurers (with the emphasis on mass).
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Alabama Senate race The loss of the Alabama seat long held by Attorney General Jeff SessionsJefferson (Jeff) Beauregard SessionsDOJ should take action against China's Twitter propaganda Lewandowski says he's 'happy' to testify before House panel The Hill's Morning Report — Trump and the new Israel-'squad' controversy MORE is a sore spot with Senate Republicans, and has stirred fears within the conference about possibly losing the majority in November.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin makes his first visit to Japan in 11 years on Thursday with Tokyo hopeful of progress in getting Russia to return islands in the Kuril chain that the then-Soviet Union seized three days after Japan's surrender at the end of World War II. It's been a sore spot in Japan-Russia relations for the past 71 years and is something that both Moscow and Tokyo are looking to leverage to enhance their security and economic interests in the Pacific.
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The UFO coffeehouse, decorated with rock 'n' roll posters donated from the San Francisco promoter Bill Graham, quickly became a popular hangout for G.I.s — and a target of significant hostility from military officials, city authorities and outraged local citizens ("It's a sore spot in our craw," a Columbia official said.) The coffeehouse was located just off base, out of the military's reach but close enough for soldiers to visit during their free time — places where active-duty servicemen, veterans and civilian activists could meet to plan demonstrations, publish underground newspapers and work to build the nascent peace movement within the military.
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