Most of the eurozone has been in recession, or close to it, since the last G20 Summit in Cannes.
For financial instruments, such as stock options and many other derivatives, this was often (conveniently) zero, or close to it.
It is banks that matter most, however, and some of the biggest are suspected of being insolvent or close to it.
Strange as it sounds, their goal is to raise the effective tax rate on foreign investments by U.S.-based multinationals to zero, or close to it.
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Shareholders get punished and usually lose evrything or close to it.
Every time military practitioners have looked at that in our history, we've always had failure or close to it, and so you have to deal with this issue.
The survey also found that 68% of workers currently earn their desired salary or close to it, while the remaining 32% said they are not anywhere near their target pay.
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The issue for Apple will be if they can introduce this potentially new and revolutionary product as well (or close to it) as Steve Jobs did for the previous three categories.
But the vast bulk of that money would go to those who are already 60 or older and there are no serious proposals to make substantial reductions in benefits for those retired or close to it.
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Which means that if Sharp really are bust, or close to it, then one possibly sensible thing to do is just sweat that production line of all the cash flow that can be got from it.
That, figures Feltus, will make them less likely to wind up underwater and less likely to turn in the keys than homebuyers who financed the entire value of their homes, or close to it, in later years.
This in turn means that the cost is paid mainly by the middle and working classes, since the cost of health insurance for them is generally at the same cost (or close to it) as it is for CEOs.
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But evidently some do believe that it, or something close to it, could be useful for states fighting terrorists.
Senator Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) wants you to know that not everything he says on the Senate floor is the truth, or even close to it.
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Nearly all the others are members of Letta's Democratic Party or people close to it.
We do not believe that that is a jobs agenda or anything close to it.
"Most of us went broke, or came close to it, " says the 68-year-old.
Yet India and Pakistan are now at war, or something close to it, over Kashmir, a disputed state that has been the cause of two full-scale wars in the past half-century.
Bob Dylan does make a brief appearance, but it's loosely based on a folk musician named Dave Van Ronk, who kind of preceded Dylan but never quite got the acclaim or anything close to it.
But he does think a debate about the UK monetary policy framework, and alternatives to it, would be helpful - provided it is resolved quickly, probably in favour of the current regime or something very close to it.
The new Forest Code will probably end up in its current form, or something very close to it.
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Executives who make spectacularly bad decisions can only be subjected to criminal prosecution if they engage in fraud or deliberately close their eyes to it.
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Those exceptionally low levels are between 0 and quarter % - or as close to zero as it is possible to get.
That is how some of the writers transcribed the interviews, and in many cases it comes off as something close to mockery, whether or not it was intended that way.
Or will you try to close it by taxing the American people into a long plague of malaise and stagflation?
"When you are a survivor or a victim or someone close to you dies, it's everyday you think about it, " he said.
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