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  • David Jones: Softening up; Pips squeaking; Too late to moan; Doesn't add up; Scrap value

    The week that was 2009

  • David Jones: Softening up; Pips squeaking; Too late to moan; Doesn't add up; Scrap value

    Archive 2009-04-01 2009

  • Softening and floppiness of the airway structures above the vocal cords.

    Glossary 2010

  • Softening demand also tightened borrowing conditions for junk-rated companies.

    As 'Junk' Bonds Fall, Some Blame the Fed Serena Ng 2011

  • Softening the blank rounds: The round blanks are the softened and cleaned by exposing them to higher temperatures in an annealing furnace, putting them in the tumbling barrels and finally into moving cylinders containing some chemicals.

    Mint Who | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles 2009

  • Softening It Up -- Former Bush administration officials try to get the DOJ to alter the report on torture to go easy on the people who wrote the torture memos.

    Short Takes 2009

  • Softening up Indianapolis 'middle should expose the flanks to Brees' pinpoint arm, which clicked at a 70% success rate this season.

    Why Saints will win: Sharper, defense will be on the ball 2010

  • Softening the blow from the abrupt termination in private-sector financing will require much more than that.

    Funding Poorer Members Won't Help the Euro Zone Stephen Fidler 2011

  • Softening demand also tightened borrowing conditions for junk-rated companies.

    As 'Junk' Bonds Fall, Some Blame the Fed Serena Ng 2011

  • Softening the administration's earlier insistence that Congress raise the so-called debt ceiling without conditions, officials now say they won't rule out linking an increase of the borrowing cap with cuts aimed at reducing the deficit—even though they'd prefer to keep the issues separate.

    President Open to Deal on Debt Cap Damian Paletta 2011

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