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While blockbusters filled seats in theaters this year, there were also plenty of duds.

My home office looks like a Jenga game of nonfiction books I read about Southern California Latino life this past year — and almost none were duds.

However, pharmaceutical companies want to recover their years of research and development costs - and the field has produced a lot of expensive duds and dead-ends.

They’ve spent plenty of money on duds, too, but taken as a whole their business has been strong.

Large numbers of the shells fired were duds; they failed to detonate.