[Q]: Like-for-like sales for the 17 weeks to 27 December were flat , while the gross margin fell by 2 percentage points , the company said .

UK retail like-for-like sales for the 17 weeks to December 27 were flat , with gross margin down two percentage points .
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[A]: yes

[Q]: Mr. Marshall demonstrated a preference for results over rhetoric in preparing the Civil Rights Act .

Marshall demonstrated his preference for results over rhetoric in preparing the Civil Rights Act that was passed in November 1964 .
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[A]: yes

[Q]: Mr. Gettelfinger said at that news conference that " we are going to continue to hammer away at the negotiations process until we reach an agreement , " with Ford and G.M.

" We are going to continue to hammer away at the negotiations process until we reach an agreement , " he said .
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[A]: yes

[Q]: " I think we should leave them as they are , " said Lott , R-Miss . , of the current ownership rules during a Senate Commerce Committee hearing .

" I think we should hesitate , " Olympia Snowe , R-Maine , said at a Senate Commerce Committee hearing .
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[A]:
no