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  • Because Azerbaijan and Armenia are both members of the EU's Eastern Partnership initiative, Europe has the necessary lev erage to secure peace.

    Avoiding the Next War in the South Caucasus Borut Grgic 2010

  • The av erage government job pays almost three times as much as the average private-sector job.

    Revolt of the Accountants Peggy Noonan 2010

  • President Obama will want to improve his own dreadful fiscal record going into 2012, and Mr. Boehner can use that lev erage to reduce domestic discretionary spending to 2008 levels, or lower.

    The Boehner Evolution 2010

  • You going to wish you had listened when you find yourself without jobs because of your own medica cov erage.

    Cabinet members: Leave your BlackBerry at the door 2009

  • This month's av erage daily trading volume, of just over four billion shares in New York Stock Exchange Composite volume, is the lowest for August since 2006, and is almost a third lower than last August's daily volume of 5.8 billion shares.

    Dow Falls in Year's Slowest Session 2010

  • STAND AT THE EDGE OF A RALLY for Communist Party candidate Gennady Zyuganov in an av - erage town like Klintsy in western Russia, and listen to his supporters:

    Kissing Up To The Past 2008

  • Timothy A. Clary/Getty Images A.trader watched the Dow Jones Industrial A.erage as it notched an eighth straight day of big losses Friday.

    The Worst Week Ends Down 2008

  • This ambitious takeover of international commerce he had no doubt he could do, assuming he had enough money, lev - erage, and the right people behind him.

    Second Skin Lustbader, Eric 1995

  • All of a sudden it was at the heart of a circle of unfriendlies including Morley and myself, Sadler and most of Chodo's boys, and maybe a dozen priests and Watchmen with more man av-erage nerve.

    Cold Copper Tears Cook, Glen 1988

  • Hulk smashed desperately with his weapon, but his lev - erage was not good.

    Blue Adept Anthony, Piers 1981

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