Beds and bedroom furniture
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The UK beds and bedroom furniture market is expected to grow to 1,840.8 million pounds sterling by the year 2002, from 1,704.4 million pounds sterling in 1998. Demand will be affected by an increase in divorce leading to higher levels of single households, while smaller families will reduce volume demand but increase expenditure per unit. Silentnight accounted for 21.6% of the beds and mattress market by value in 1995, rising to 23.8% in 1997.
Publication Name: Market Intelligence
Subject: Economics
ISSN: 1366-6673
Year: 1998
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Sounding off: listen up! Some words are just too close for comfort
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Some words enjoy popular usage but they do not mean what users think they mean. Subsequently, the original meaning of the word is often lost. One example discussed is 'effete' which means barren, fruitless, wornout. People think it means snobbish and ineffectual, confusing it with 'effeminate' and 'elite.'
Publication Name: The New York Times Magazine
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ISSN: 0028-7822
Year: 1997
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Iron
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Hemochromatosis, a condition that causes a higher-than-normal absorbtion of iron, is the most undiagnosed genetic disorder in the US, afflicting over one million Americans. The excessive iron in the body can lead to a variety of diseases including cancer, diabetes, and heart disease.
Publication Name: Health (San Francisco, CA)
Subject: Sports and fitness
ISSN: 1059-938X
Year: 1996
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