The economy is only growing at a moderate pace, so that additional drag would be "significant, " he said.

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In terms of Toyota and Nomura, neither needs any additional drag factors, both have been beset by issues of their own dragging down revenues and margins: Toyota with the recent flooding in Thailand and Nomura in regards to issues with the Olympus scandal.

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Given that AAPL has a 17% weighting in the Nasdaq, any additional weakness could drag the rest of the market down as well.

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Then it was that the massive stimulus efforts and resulting additional debt load would drag the economy lower rather than result in recovery.

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Many poorer women who are not well educated are forgoing marriage, believing that a man is simply a drag and an additional mouth to feed, Ms Rosin argues.

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This phenomenon is a spiral distortion of space which should if relativity is correct happen when massive bodies rotate. (In essence, such bodies drag space round with them.) Frame-dragging is predicted to cause an additional precession of one hundred-thousandth of a degree, perpendicular to that caused by the geodetic effect.

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