As bonuses fall, pressure on banks to increase basic pay is already rising.

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As the precipitation intensified and the low pressure system became more intense, basic physics said more cooling was on the way.

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Although basic education is free, there is often pressure to get older children to begin work so that they can help with the family finances.

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Under pressure from shareholders, managers abandoned much of the basic research to the universities.

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You see this pressure to make the business more secure going down to very basic operational offices of the banks such as optimizing collateral and looking at liquidity.

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But given Obama's basic suspicion of US allies, to the extent he has bowed to pressure to take action in the Middle East, he has always done so to the detriment of US allies.

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However, the move was a basic admission that a crisis could be imminent, and a Greek default would put significant pressure on banks.

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