"Japan continues to be a major headwind, reflecting double-digit price cuts from April," an analyst with JPMorgan, Michael Weinstein, said in a research note.
Benefit management companies often come up with much larger totals, reflecting double counting of health plan members who may buy some of their drugs with one company's card in retail stores and fill other prescriptions from a second company's mail pharmacy.
North American carbonated soft drink volume declined 3.0%, while non-carbonated beverage volume was down 5.0%, reflecting double-digit declines in unflavored water and Propel.
PHOTOS: Hollywood Backlot moments Television -- the single largest production category -- finished the quarter down 4%, reflecting double-digit declines in reality TV, sitcoms and web-based production.
Ruabkov accused European leaders of "fanning the flames of the conflict", and told journalists that the EU's decision reflected "double standards" and dealt a serious blow to prospects of a peace conference.
Although Justice Reichbach reports that marijuana had a benefit for him, anecdotal reports are not reliable scientific evidence because the claimed benefits are not independently verified and do not reflect double-blind controls.
Ben Cohen, a British contributor to the American magazine Commentary, said the ban reflected double standards on the part of a country that had put up with the presence of Islamic extremists.
Like Narcissus gazing at himself in the forest pool, all these reflected doubles signify the modern split psyche -- alienated from humanity, from moral values, and from objective reality.
Dorian Gray's portrait is the functional equivalent of the "double" seen by Mavis as she stares into her mirror -- or of the reflected doubles that feature in Mirror Mirror, Snow White and the Huntsman, or even The Devil's Double or Black Swan.
If an individual chemical dose response assessment were to incorporate background exposures to other similarly acting chemicals, as suggested by NRC, then the resulting HI would reflect double counting or would not be needed (Dourson & Haber, 2010).
