• That ratio has collapsed from 17 early last year to around 9--meaning that money sits in a sock drawer or a bank account for about twice as long as it once did before being put to use.

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  • That means focussing on objectives like freedom from pain and discomfort, or maintaining mental awareness for as long as possible, or getting out with family once in a while.

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  • But once you do it, as long as that is managed properly, then, and they've made some good decisions and they've made some poor decisions like any company.

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  • CBI's annual conference on November 28th, Mr Brown was once again burnishing his credentials as a long-term planner, saying that investment in infrastructure was vital for Britain's future.

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  • The second step was to communicate to the employees that we were setting an official company policy: Making any mistake once was OK, so long as it was an honest mistake made while attempting to do what they felt was the right thing.

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  • Once started, infliximab is generally continued as long-term therapy, although its effectiveness may decrease over time.

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  • But the drinks are strong, and the locals - among them a few Long Island fishermen, known as Bonackers, or Bubbies (they once had their own dialect) - can't get enough of it.

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  • Gary Carter was once the spark that ignited the Mets to a world championship in 1986 and he could be that spark once again as the Mets embark upon a long journey towards redemption.

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  • Once the reserve army is exhausted and as long as we maintain that competition among capitalists for access to the labour, the profits that can be made from labour, then inexorably and without doubt labour incomes will rise in line with productivity again.

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  • The restaurant was originally conceived, not long after Katrina, as a homage to the rustic seafood joints that once lined the banks of New Orleans's Lake Pontchartrain.

    WSJ: Seafood Restaurant Meets the Gulf Coast

  • The long-term viability of the euro (once hailed as the next great reserve currency that would supplant the dollar) has repeatedly been called into question, and credit ratings on debt in euro zone countries have gradually been taken a hit.

    FORBES: Gold Bound For New Highs

  • Once seen as the next dragon in Asia's long line of miracle stories, Vietnam seemed ready to boom in the late 1980s.

    CNN: Stops and Starts

  • Several of the champions of the new economy are firms that were once hailed as plucky little start-ups but have long since grown huge, such as Apple, Google and Facebook. (In August Apple was the world's largest listed company by market capitalisation.) American firms with 5, 000 or more people spend more than twice as much per worker on research and development as those with 100-500.

    ECONOMIST: Why large firms are often more inventive than small ones

  • Once the procedure ends, the penalty begins, and, as long as the cruelty is routine, our civil responsibility toward the punished is over.

    NEWYORKER: The Caging of America

  • The deal obliges the council to grant Stanhope a long lease of the site once specific conditions have been achieved, such as the granting of planning consent for the development.

    BBC: Salisbury regeneration a step closer

  • Indigenous singing and music once echoed through the mountains and was used as a form of communication long before telephones arrived.

    BBC: Tribal culture survives in Taiwan

  • The long-awaited CDMA femtocell (once dubbed the Samsung Ubicell) essentially acts as a super in-house signal booster, or, if you'd prefer, a mini Sprint tower sitting right beside your router.

    ENGADGET: Sprint AIRAVE review Mobile

  • However, on March 5, those of us who have long fancied ourselves as urban planners will get a completely modern version of "SimCity" to once again assist us in the gleeful neglect of our jobs, family, and personal hygiene.

    CNN: Apparently This Matters: The new 'SimCity'

  • Wall Street firms are in the business of profit, they seemed to like the products they were selling during the housing boom judging by the makeup of their balance sheets once housing moderated, and none of this is wrong so long as they suffer their losses every bit as much as they celebrate their successes.

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  • Once the other spouse files for retirement benefits, the first spouse, as long as he or she is at least age 62, can file for Spousal Benefits.

    FORBES: The Social Security Spousal Benefit - Further Explanation

  • And once you're on the Cipro (antibiotic) -- as long as you get on that Cipro before it actually takes hold in your body -- you have a very, very, very good chance of surviving, of getting through it.

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  • But most of the impact will be next year because infrastructure funds, even once the money is available, takes a long time to be spent as federal, state and local governments secure the necessary approvals and seek bids for the work.

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  • Once they reach a certain level of wealth, "they hold on as long as they can, " says Mathew Greenwald, the firm's president.

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  • Those pages are scanned far less frequently than those in the main index, meaning that once a page is marked for Google Hell, it can languish there for as long as a year before Google even deigns it worthy of a reappraisal.

    FORBES: Condemned To Google Hell

  • Further, Hindu nationalists -- once seen as a disciplined, corruption-free force -- have now held office long enough at the state level for the shine to have disappeared.

    CNN: Behind the BJP's Mask

  • The hotel, once a private home, hosted the late Nelson Mandela as he completed his autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom.

    BBC: Business trip: Johannesburg

  • In fact, Crowley's phone was already ringing off the hook before Wednesday once Mihalich's long-rumored departure became official, and he was officially introduced as Hofstra's new coach.

    WSJ: Niagara begins search to replace Mihalich

  • Two separate European wars in the last century, as well as the decades-long Cold War, shifted American strategic focus outward, away from the region that had once been foremost in the minds of American strategists.

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  • "I suppose that temptation kept them alive for as long as it did - which was only about five or six years, but I think I had more than once attempted to disband the group, " he said.

    BBC: Frank Black and the Catholics

  • Once a home has been recognized, the VA pays a portion of the per diem cost as long as the home continues to meet VA standards.

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