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"Billy felt Collazo would play spoiler and try to put a dampener on what we want to be an explosive championship debut for Ricky in America, " said Hobson.
BBC: SPORT | Boxing | Hatton still searching for rival
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So for the world as a whole, if a financial transactions tax put a bit of a dampener on financial innovation and trading (whether low frequency or high frequency), that would probably be no reason to weep - unless (to state the obvious) investment banking is your life.
BBC: How scary is a financial transactions tax?
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Elements of the armed forces are believed to be behind death threats to senior journalists, which, to put it mildly, act as a dampener on the freedom of expression.
ECONOMIST: Perilous journey