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He presently sat down and took out a _Grotius De Veritate_, over which he "seesawed" so violently that the mob ran back to see what was the matter.

Samuel Johnson

It was the fitful confusion of stop-start fiscal spending that seesawed the economy between hopeful improvement on the one hand, and wrenching cut-backs and consumption taxes urged by austerity-preaching deficit hawks on the other.

Lynn Parramore: Japanophobia: Economic Myths in the American Media

After a grueling stretch in the past week where the Dow Jones Industrial Average seesawed between triple-digit gains and losses, only one of the 10 initial public offerings that had been scheduled to debut actually made it out.

IPO Market Is Ready For a Break

As stocks have seesawed in August, trading volume has surged well ahead of the overall 2011 average of 4.32 billion.

Summer's Volume Augurs Down Fall

Treasurys Prices Fall Treasury prices seesawed before ending modestly lower after better-than-expected economic data and a brighter take on the health of the U.S. economy from the Federal Reserve.

GE Arm Leads Corporate Sales

Currency markets seesawed in the second quarter as investors moved from optimism about the U.S. economy to worry about a renewed slowdown and the European debt crisis.

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The euro seesawed against the dollar as traders remain cautious about a possible restructuring of Greek debt.

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But as the European debt crisis weighed on investors' minds, stocks seesawed in a tight range for two months.

Stocks Going By the Book

The Dow Jones-UBS Commodity Index has seesawed since it plunged from its June 2008 peak, and is trending downward at the moment.

Commodities Lose Allure

The euro, meanwhile, seesawed in a range against the U.S. dollar, as investors wavered between euro-zone sovereign-debt worries and the prospect that the European Central Bank could raise interest rates as early as April.

Swiss Franc Advances on Rivals