• Vigo's chief executive, Mario Trujillo, blames Western Union's heavy-handed tactic of tying up its agents.

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  • Anxious about tying up the line, Arty nevertheless announced that it was his birthday.

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  • Tying up a partner's life online is among the toughest chores a grieving spouse must face.

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  • At the same time, farming was hugely labor-intensive, tying up almost half the American workforce.

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  • Its iAyala unit is tying up with Globe to offer broadband Net access to Ayala's posh developments.

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  • This, in turn, has forced them to put aside more capital, tying up what could be used for loans.

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  • Pitt's character has the unenviable job of tying up disparate storylines, but if anyone can do it, it's him.

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  • Polish international goalkeeper Boruc and Scotland defender McManus are close to tying up moves to Fiorentina and Middlesbrough respectively.

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  • Hooded gunmen allegedly burst into a beach bungalow and accosted six women from Spain after tying up their male companions.

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  • That freedom is a big deal, particularly for young entrepreneurs who may worry about tying up their capital in retirement accounts.

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  • He made a few more dashes with the pen, and a cute, floppy bow materialized, tying up the toes like a present.

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  • Fight the urge to flake out on your current job and spend your time finishing critical projects and tying up loose ends.

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  • This strategy typically allows me to avoid tying up capital ahead of moves however does at times leave me susceptible to the occasional fake-break.

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  • Several armed masked men entered a building where the women were sleeping, and attacked them after tying up other people staying there, police said.

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  • She pretended to be busy, tying up the branches with twine.

    NEWYORKER: The Swan

  • The life insurers are trying to change, tying up with foreign fund-managers to learn investment skills, and introducing professional financial planners alongside their insurance ladies.

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  • By using options, the trader gains leverage and can achieve larger returns than those seen by tying up the same amount of money in a short stock position.

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  • With the music buying experience evolving by the moment, old-fashioned record stores with leases, staff and high inventory costs (tying up millions in capital), needed a drastic overhaul.

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  • More than 25 cruises are expected to be tying up in Liverpool each year by 2009 and a new reception hall will be built to help welcome them.

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  • Jason Goldberg of Barclays Capital writes that the legislation's negative impact would come through fee reductions, higher costs of regulation and implementation and new restrictions, as well as tying up capital.

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  • Because it is only an advisory body, the fear was that companies would appeal to the law if their takeover plans were blocked, tying up matters in the courts for years.

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  • Before Mr Ecclestone, they cared little for the detailed work of tying up commercial agreements with each of the race tracks covering trackside advertising, gate money, hospitality, television rights and so on.

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  • It would seem there is a relatively simple solution to the wireless data deluge faced by mobile operators: shift the traffic that is tying up their networks to Wi-Fi hotspots whenever possible.

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  • Authorities said hooded gunmen stormed into a beach bungalow in the Pacific port of Acapulco and attacked a group of Spanish tourists, raping six women and tying up a group of men with cell phone cables and bikini straps.

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  • If the customer hits the button on a client's Internet site, Harte-Hanks also answers that, for another 75 cents a pop, sending out canned or, in some cases, human-written responses and saving clients from tying up their own people and computer systems.

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  • If the customer hits the button on a client's Internet site, Harte-Hanks also answers that, for another 75 cents a pop, sending out canned or, in some cases, personalized written responses and saving clients from tying up their own people and computer systems.

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  • Instead of tying up precious cash in investment products that have risk and might not be there for that rainy day or college tuition, advisors should be teaching the value of saving, and showing them all the options, including participating whole life insurance.

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  • Matt Snowling, an analyst at Friedman Billings Ramsey, said the announcement was not entirely unexpected, as the company said it was very close in tying up a deal during last week's earnings call, but removes a fairly significant overhang the company had worried about.

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  • When you have a story as sprawling as Game of Thrones, with a cast that only continues to grow, and plot-lines sprouting up like magic beanstalks all over the place, the first episode of a season can feel a whole lot like tying up loose ends.

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  • Only this week Mr Potanin's Uneximbank group was tying up the loose ends on one such deal by winning an auction for a 38% stake in a metals firm, Norilsk Nickel a stake that the bank had been managing on behalf of the government for the past 18 months.

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