The Post Office's management, for its part, believes that the Treasury might be prepared to bend its borrowing rules if it was persuaded that the business was going to be subject to private-sector disciplines.
Why would other Republicans be willing to bend so much more than Mr. Paul toward the AFL-CIO?
Whitacre and company knew that banks would be willing to bend over backwards to nab this gig, so why not tell them one way they can get a leg up on their competitors is to buy some cars.
After all, companies like Lenovo are already making iMac lookalikes, like the above-pictured Ideacentre, which have touchscreens and can bend to be used like desktop tablets.
Mr. Norquist says Republicans should tough it out even if it means going over the tax cliff, pass a bill one more time to extend current tax rates in January, and then Mr. Obama will be the one to bend and sign it.
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Taylor and his team envisage their tiny serpent-like bots being used in areas such as throat operations, where they can bend easily and be used to make incisions and tie sutures with incredible dexterity and precision.
With his Tea Party backing and libertarian bend, it would be hard to categorized Paul as a mainstream politician.
The landslip close to what is known locally as the Labrador Bend is reported to be at least 15ft across and 3ft deep.
But to visit Bend now is to be in the eye of housing hurricane, with nearly deserted housing tracts, woefully empty hotels and residential second-home developments.
Mira has developed software that acts as a "co-pilot" which, with the help of a digital map, knows what speed they should be travelling to make it round a bend.
The GOP must either have a leader who will fight back hard with the president or a leader who will be able to persuade the base to bend a little.
"If we do not get a reasonable sort of indication from CBO that we're going to bend it, that will be a problem, " the aide said of lowering costs in the future.
Dr. ORSZAG: Well, the key to our long-term fiscal future is actually improving the efficiency of the health care system, and I think there's a lot that can be done there to bring - to bend the curve on health care costs.
Putting aside the spiritual benefits of supplication, a more pressing secular question might be phrased this way: Can strong prayer bend the medical cost curve?
But rather than trying to bend the rules, many should-be taxpayers just hide.
Hobby Lobby must bend to bureaucratic whim or the company may be compelled to pony over steep penalties.
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Given the testing conditions at the West Sussex course (several horses had already come a cropper around the famously tight right-hand bend), this was never going to be a procession on the scale of the 11-length drubbing Frankel handed out at Royal Ascot back in June.
Its 285, 000-barrels-a-day Pine Bend, Minn. refinery is widely considered to be among the most efficient in North America.
Some would-be clients don't see it, and others hope he will bend the rules.
But Mr Basu makes clear that paying an official to bend the rules in one's favour should continue to be illegal.
We try to be as accommodating as possible, and sometimes we go as far as to bend rules to include a film we think is especially worthy.
But if the US is expecting Mr Uribe to bend over backwards to accommodate American priorities, it will most likely be disappointed, as the president elect is fiercely patriotic and independent.
Having a series of layers also helps to "bend" the flow of sunlight which assists in capturing light that would otherwise be reflected off.
But while they'll bend to deal with change, there are some talked-about fees that may be deal-breakers.
President-elect BARACK OBAMA: It's the answer that led those who've been told for so long by so many to be cynical and fearful and doubtful about what we can achieve to put their hands on the arc of history and bend it once more toward the hope of a better day.
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