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had expected.” “The clothing in- dustry has just taken off,” says Chris Christopher, U.S. econo- mist for research fi rm, HIS Global Insight. “The unseasonably warm weather that started in February,” he notes, “helped spring clothing sales, after dismal sales of winter clothes in January.” Many analysts believe there is


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