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In Louisiana, power utility Entergy is restoring wetlands that will help soften the blow from future storms.
Many companies are already taking steps to soften the blow such as avoiding new investments and hiring.
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Dr Mahathir has worked on these feelings, and tried to soften the blow of Mr Anwar's trial.
Nevertheless, his remarkably good spirits led me to wonder whether he was taking meds to soften the blow.
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To soften the blow, it is offering cheap loans to tempo-owners to convert their vehicles to electric power.
The renewed rules are projected to soften the blow for countries like India.
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To soften the blow, the CBO-JCT study reported that there were 53 million uninsured on the eve of Obama Care.
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Mr Obama blamed Republican lawmakers for failing to compromise, and for rejecting some revenue increases to soften the blow of the cuts.
Trusts and estates lawyers are just starting to come up with ways to soften the blow of the tax hikes on trusts.
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Both firms have tried to soften the blow for those laid off.
By making these additional savings, Mr Osborne was able to soften the blow on departmental budgets but they are still taking a big hit.
The Fed never considered individuals like Yeager when it used rate machinations to soften the blow for banks and borrowers who made poor decisions.
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As the hot and dry weather persists, farmers face potential losses in spite of federal crop insurance meant to soften the blow to U.S. agriculture.
But there is no doubt in my mind that the resignation or firing of President Shalala will soften the blow of NCAA sanctions at least some.
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Mr Kim is trying to soften the blow by promising to issue bonds that would increase the unemployment fund from its current 1.2 trillion won to 4.5 trillion won.
Monetary expansion plus targeted programs to help reduce payments on mortgages are important ways to help soften the blow of a downward spiral in housing, and should help boost employment.
"I hope the redundancy package will soften the blow for the workers but work will be gradually phased out before the end of the year, " said company spokesman David Clarkson.
The weaker pound will help not just to soften the blow of recession but also to create a basis for a subsequent recovery that will be necessarily less reliant on consumers.
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The only good news is that right from the start a partnership of the Ecuadorian Government, national parks and The Charles Darwin Foundation, swung into action to try to soften the blow.
The Treasury is expected to soften the blow by requiring the big banks to raise capital to support only that part of their balance sheet that British tax payers would have to support in a crisis.
In October the authority announced the centre would close for two weeks for the building to be assessed, but some of those interviewed said this was a "sham" to soften the blow of closure to the public.
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AstraZeneca has doped its version of a COX-2 inhibitor with nitrous oxide--laughing gas--to soften the gastrointestinal blow.
Their wary opponents are manoeuvring to soften the expected blow.
To try and soften this terrific blow, Schering-Plough decided to sell Claritin over the counter, a move that could keep generics out of the prescription market.
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