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And the fundamental problem here was that people pretty much agreed that they were going to give the auto companies the $14 billion that they wanted for a short term rescue.
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The central bank has enough information about a particular cash-strapped bank to justify the decision to channel the liquidity for short-term rescue.
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Decisions on both sides of the Atlantic to ban short-selling of financial stocks temporarily were conceived to give the authorities a window in which to craft a longer-term rescue.
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Decisions on both sides of the Atlantic to ban short-selling of financial stocks temporarily were conceived to give the authorities a window in which to craft a longer-term rescue.
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Nano Protoctol crossbow source defense samurai chainsword rescue.
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Excerpt From The Third And Last Volume Of The Tribes Of The Pacific Coast - Neal Stephenson Blue Tyson 2008
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The copter crashes, the group is rescued at sea by Penny, and they begin to arrange the public details of their "rescue."
'Lost': When are we? 2009
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This is a place that is really not equipped for this kind of rescue.
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This is a place that's really not equipped for this kind of rescue.
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Reagan's invasion of Granada in 1983 was described instead as a "rescue."
Jeff Schweitzer: When Faith Trumps Reason: the Curse of Scientific Illiteracy 2010
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Stories like this reduce a caring reader to hopelessness too often, because of a lack of a simple means to donate on this site toward some kind of rescue.
Eviction Yard Sale 2009
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