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  • That is to say, Bank of America can afford to run local branches on Montague Street at a loss for years, figuring that the loss of revenue in that one location is made up for by the over-all increased exposure.

    Matthew Yglesias » The Trouble With High Rent 2009

  • "We have an obligation to protect the students in our building from others who pose a threat to the over-all safe learning environment," Russell Davis, principal of Spotsylvania High, wrote to other school officials in one e-mail.

    Plastic pellet incident at Va. school ends in expulsion, assault charges Kevin Sieff 2011

  • Can we act to lighten it without increasing the over-all amount of pain in the world?

    Rabbi Arthur Waskow: The Sukkah And The World Trade Center Rabbi Arthur Waskow 2011

  • That is to say, Bank of America can afford to run local branches on Montague Street at a loss for years, figuring that the loss of revenue in that one location is made up for by the over-all increased exposure.

    Matthew Yglesias » The Trouble With High Rent 2009

  • Despite significant opposition from the drinks industry and concerns from the Chilean government, which fears the move will hit its wine sales, Salmond is pressing ahead with the proposals after the Scottish National Party won an over-all majority in the Scottish parliament.

    Scotch whisky exports up by 22% 2011

  • She provided facts and figures to buttress her case, and was clearly making the over-all point that, in judging cases involving discrimination, the point of view of someone in a racialized minority is to be welcomed, and carries its own lived authority.

    Archive 2009-05-01 2009

  • Evidently the backroomers have completed their various sondages and discovered that, on balance, all factors considered, at this point in time, weather permitting, opposing asbestos exports will not cause over-all harm to the party's prospects in an election.

    Archive 2009-08-01 2009

  • For his part, while insisting on the over-all accuracy of his statements, Bent is willing to concede that he "could have misunderstood certain parts of" what Rideout told him at the time.

    Archive 2009-09-01 2009

  • A standardization of EI benefits, with an over-all lowering of the qualifying period, means much to the unemployed and to progressive policy-makers.

    Archive 2009-08-01 2009

  • It seems logical that a differently distributed economy would do better for them, and also be worse ‘over-all’.

    Matthew Yglesias » Bush’s Cheese Tarriffs and the Trouble With “Buy American” 2009

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