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PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Armour ? A woman runs past an Under Armour store in downtown Chicago on Oct. 16. (Christopher Dilts/Bloomberg)
Americans  it seems  are over Under Armour.
âThis is an abrupt about-turn for a company that  until recently  was on a mission to challenge the might of Nike â Neil Saunders  managing director of the analytical firm GlobalData Retail  said in an email. âUnder  Armour  has become just another brand in a sea of brands.â
The problems are multiple  he said. Although Under  Armour  racks up billions of dollars in sales each year  analysts say it has failed to drum up much loyalty among its customers. It has also been slow to resonate with women and has struggled to compete with larger rivals such as Nike and Adidas  which often offer lower-priced goods. Another factor: bankruptcy filings by key retail distributors such as Sports Authority and Sports Chalet.
âWe are incredibly disappointed with our 2017 performance â Kevin Plank  Under Armourâs founder and chief executive  said during the call with analysts. âWe have not performed to the level we had originally aspired to.â
Under Armour tried to keep up  he said  by discounting prices and offering more promotions than usual  which further cut into the companyâs profit margins. But  Plank added  those were just temporary efforts to shore up sales and not a long-term strategy for the company  which once could command higher prices than its competitors. (Menâs running shoes  for example  start at $74.99 at  Under Armour   $65 at Adidas and $60 at Nike  according to the companiesâ websites.)
âIn no way  shape or form do we anticipate changing the pricing model that makes Under Armour special and unique â Plank said. âWe invented the $25 T-shirt. Weâve pressed the bounds as to what consumers will pay for apparel. Thatâll continue. No one is looking for  Under Armour  to have the $25 hooded fleece. They want Under  Armour  at the $75 and $100 price points.â
But analysts say that might be a tough sell  particularly as customers grow accustomed to deep discounts. Saunders added that a âmarked slowdownâ in demand for athletic apparel is likely to further complicate Under  Armour âs turnaround efforts.
âWhile customer numbers have risen  loyalty to the brand is not deep-rooted in the same way that it is at Lululemon and Nike â he wrote. âWhat this means is that as demand moderated  Under  Armour  has been quick to drop off the radar of many consumers.â
The latest round of disappointing earnings comes on the heels of a tough year. The company posted its first-ever loss in April and in August announced it would lay off 2 percent of its workers. Thereâs also been changes to the leadership team. Still   shares of Under Armour stock  which are currently trading at about $13   have lost more than half  their  value this year.

SOLUTION: Negative

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity John Burnett ? We have some news now on how the Trump administration is pushing back against illegal immigration. The administration has for months talked about separating immigrant families at the border as a way of discouraging them from coming in the first place. A federal lawsuit filed on Monday says federal agents are increasingly doing that  and the idea has outraged activists. The plaintiff is an undocumented Congolese woman who's being detained in San Diego while her 7-year-old daughter is being held 2 000 miles away at a shelter in Chicago.  NPR's John Burnett  has the story.
 JOHN BURNETT   BYLINE: In recent years  the Department of Homeland Security has attempted to discourage asylum-seekers from coming to the U.S. Under Obama  they detained some unauthorized families in camps in South Texas rather than release them in the U.S. while their cases are heard. The Trump administration has gone even further. It has arrested immigrant parents in the U.S. who paid smugglers to bring their children across the border  and it wants to expand detention space. Now comes the most extreme measure yet  family separation.
 BURNETT : That's Lee Gelernt  deputy director of the ACLU's National Immigrant Rights Project. He's representing a 39-year-old mother who traveled from the Democratic Republic of Congo to Mexico with her 7-year-old daughter. They surrendered to immigration agents near San Diego in December. They said they were fleeing violence in Congo and asked for asylum. She's being held apart from her daughter. They're only able to speak by phone.
 BURNETT : A spokeswoman for Homeland Security declined to give a reason why the child was taken from her mother  saying only the agency does not comment on cases under litigation. The practice of separating undocumented families to discourage them from coming is not a formal stated policy of the administration  but immigrant activists say it's been quietly growing in frequency along the Southern border. Katharina Obser is with the Women's Refugee Commission.
 BURNETT : Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Services has documented 53 incidents of family separation in the last nine months  mostly Central Americans. They say they're fleeing rampant gang violence. But the administration believes most of them are gaming the system  and it wants to stop the flow  first  because the trek is dangerous for young children. And  second  Matt Al Bent's  an official with ICE removal operations  told NPR...
 BURNETT : Immigration lawyers say the strategy could work. Mothers may drop their cases and go home to be reunited with their children. But is that a reasonable way to curtail illegal immigration? Dr. Lisa Fortuna  director of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Boston Medical Center  is an expert on the impact of trauma on immigrant families. She's submitting an amicus brief in the ACLU lawsuit.
 BURNETT : The lawsuit claims that immigration agents violated the Congolese woman's constitutional right to due process. It asks the government  if it's going to detain a mother and child during the asylum process  at least allow them to be together.  John Burnett   NPR News. Transcript provided by NPR  Copyright NPR.

SOLUTION: Neutral

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Brian Cashman ? CLEVELAND â The New York Yankees of the mid-to-late 1990s have acquired their own mythology. Derek Jeter and Mariano Rivera and Jorge Posada and the rest of the dynastic Yankees seem  through the lens of the present  to have emerged fully formed as a colossus.  Brian Cashman  has a different perspective  because  he  witnessed them come together. âThat team â  Cashman  said  âwas young  too  at one point.â
The common refrain has it that the current Yankees have arrived ahead of schedule. Maybe thatâs true in part. For  Cashman  and for the rest of the Yankees  both the Baby Bombers and ancient pinstripers such as CC Sabathia and Brett Gardner  they have arrived  period. Theyâre here  among the final four teams standing in a season flush with uncommonly great teams  with a sole expectation: While they have a chance  win the World Series.
â âArriving earlyâ implies some guarantee of arriving in the future â  Cashman  said. âIâve been around the block long enough to know  listen  you just seize the moment.â
The Yankees may have qualified for the playoffs as a wild card  but they are part of the raft of âsuperteams â to use  Cashman âs phrase  dominating the playoffs. The Yankees finished the season with the second-best run differential in baseball  behind only the Indians  and won 91 games.
The Yankees are cast in these playoffs as an upstart. They sold off Andrew Miller  Aroldis Chapman  Carlos Beltran and Brian McCann and shed Alex Rodriguez last season. But they re-signed Chapman in free agency  and when young stars Aaron Judge and Gary Sanchez led the Yankees to a strong start   Cashman  added reinforcements with aggression  dealing prospects for Todd Frazier  Tommy Kahnle and David Robertson.

SOLUTION:
Positive