Many of these investors then stayed out of the market until well after it turned higher, adding salt to the wound.

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Adding salt to the wound is the future employment index fell further, by 17 points, marking a 32 point decline in the last two months.

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Adding salt to the wound, Claryca Mandan says, is that the USDA recently settled a lawsuit and agreed to changes in practices in order to protect endangered wildlife.

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Adding salt to this ulcerating sore, OAS Secretary General Insulza just days later practically ripped up and tossed away the hemisphere's main pro-democracy instrument, the Inter-American Democratic Charter, saying he doesn't believe it should be used to pressure OAS member states.

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The latest development allows geophysicists to tweak algorithms on the fly--in effect, adding a little more salt here or more sandstone there to see if it helps to smooth out the image.

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Adding a little ethical salt to the wounds: Virgin added that its new partnership with Boeing would be better for the environment, since the American plane maker's 787-9 burns around 27% less fuel per passenger than the Airbus A340-300 aircraft it will replace in 2011, according to Virgin.

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"We take it with a grain of salt, " Stupak says, adding that Democratic lawmakers will find a larger piece of legislation to attach the bill to if necessary.

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