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specialty

spe shuhl tee

  • n  an asset of special worth or utility
  • n  a distinguishing trait
  • n  the special line of work you have adopted as your career

  • Overall profit margins at specialty hospitals, sometimes as high as 30%, dwarf those of community hospitals.
  • Food purveyors have taken notice specialty products make up just 12% of all retail food sales, but their high prices yield big profits and 3,500 new specialty food products .
  • Like Bonwit Teller, Frank lin Simon is a collection of women's specialty shops, not a department store.
News & Articles

  • Freedom Specialty Insurance Company® Introduces the Freedom Lease Protection Plansm Policy
    Freedom Specialty Insurance Company continues to identify new product opportunities that offer a competitive advantage for its brokers’ clients with the release of the Freedom Lease Protection Plansm policy.
    June 14, 2013 - Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance
  • Final Glance: Specialty Retail companies
    Shares of some top specialty retail companies were mixed at the close of trading: Autozone Inc. rose $3.84 or .9 percent, to $423.34. Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. rose $.04 or .1 percent, to $71.07. Best Buy ...
    June 14, 2013 - Associated Press via Yahoo! News
  • Midday Glance: Specialty Retail companies
    Shares of some top specialty retail companies are mixed at 1 p.m.: Autozone Inc. rose $2.74 or .7 percent, to $422.24. Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. fell $.11 or .2 percent, to $70.92. Best Buy fell $.20 or .7 ...
    June 14, 2013 - Associated Press via Yahoo! News
Quotes

  • Michael Rasmussen in ABC News
    There's still two more weeks of racing and I still have 110 kilometers of time-trialing to negotiate,Rasmussen said. "And I think I've proven in the past that it's not exactly my specialty."
  • John McCain in Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription)
    Republican White House hopeful John McCain said he wants "a crash program" in civilian and military schools that emphasizes language and creates a "new specialty in strategic interrogation" so the nation never feels the need for torture.
  • Scott Linehan in Toronto Star
    We have filled a need with one of the top players in football at his specialty, returning punts and kicks,Rams coach Scott Linehan said.

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