"It's contributed to the increase we have seen all through the winter and for most of last year, " he said.

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Without ditching his arsenal of ironic inflections and his nonpareil ability to make knowingness hilarious as well as smarmy, Murray takes Phil all the way through a prolonged winter of discontent and into a pixillated serenity.

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At the time of the IPO, Treasury officials and banks underwriting the deal believed the price would climb through the winter, enabling the government to sell most or all of its remaining stake within weeks of the lifting of the sales restriction at a narrower loss to taxpayers, the people familiar said.

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