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  • Destocking is essentially behind us, kind of tailend of it because recall that it started first in retail, and then followed in commercial and we think the commercial now is about at the end of its destocking as well.

    SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page 2009

  • I only wish I had gotten there earlier to hang out longer, rather than coming in on the tailend of the event.

    Weekend of Suck – Brian Keene 2008

  • The onslaught of the storm wasn't too bad, but when the cold front met the tailend of the storm, we were slammed.

    Can't wait to move to Mexico 2005

  • The onslaught of the storm wasn't too bad, but when the cold front met the tailend of the storm, we were slammed.

    Can't wait to move to Mexico 2005

  • The onslaught of the storm wasn't too bad, but when the cold front met the tailend of the storm, we were slammed.

    Can't wait to move to Mexico 2005

  • The Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP), whose clashes with the ANC at the tailend of apartheid cost thousands of lives, wants 384 of its followers to be freed.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2006

  • You had the papal plane, which, where in the front of the plane was the pope and the Vatican party, and the back of the plane was the press corps, and it was an international press corps, and usually at the back -- at the -- towards the tailend of the trip the pope would wander back on one of the longer hauls, and we would all stand up.

    CNN Transcript Apr 3, 2005 2005

  • While it doesn't go into great depth and excludes Sony's minidisc, it certainly provides enough information to demonstrate that the iPod craze is really at the tailend of a personal audio cycle that began in the late 1970's.

    The Evolution of Personal Audio « open thinking 2005

  • Get a queer old tailend of corned beef off of that one, what?

    Ulysses 2003

  • We missed the tailend of it there because we were getting the latest on the Andrea Yates case.

    CNN Transcript Mar 6, 2002 2002

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