This week I refinanced my mortgage at a new, better rate, lowering my monthly expenses with a stroke of the pen.
Winston Churchill, Britain's leader during Word War II, looking back to his days as an imperial policy-maker, used to say he created Jordan with a stroke of the pen one Sunday afternoon.
And "we're living in a fantasy land" if we think "by a stroke of a pen" the economic prospects of undocumented residents will be significantly improved, he added.
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With the stroke of a pen, Wright became the first person with MS to play in the NBA. The Mavericks did not re-sign Wright when the 10-day contract expired.
Its chances for success are uncertain, but for now, the worst of the crisis could be averted by the stroke of a pen.
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With the stroke of a pen and no new money from corporate, the GM pension could be fully funded actuarially anyway.
"Just overnight at the stroke of a pen, to change it and to forfeit the whole entire inheritance, to us it seems totally unjust, " Vaso said.
Now Rogers faces a potentially crippling threat--a "stroke-of-the-pen risk, " he calls it--if Congress imposes the wrong kind of controls on global-warming gases.
The manual is also updated annually, so the Pentagon could alter the rules in the future with the stroke of a pen.
Could he return us to gold with the stroke of a pen?
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They could eliminate prolonged isolation with the stroke of a pen.
Tax is a more suitable case for stroke-of-the-pen treatment.
Seventy-five years ago, in the depths of the Great Depression, with a stroke of a pen, President Franklin D.
" In his world, judges must resist the "temptation to make all thing right with a stroke of our pen.
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