For example, the government, as a condition of bearing part or all of the cost of reducing the principal on a given loan, might have insisted on receiving some share of the future appreciation in the value of the property in question, perhaps by issuing a second mortgage that had to be paid off upon a sale.

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"She's not only trying to do her part for fur-bearing animals but for animals all over, " McDonald said.

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Instead of offering more for the target and bearing downside risk, the acquirer can use less cash or stock, and effectively defer part of the purchase price to a later date, or, indefinitely.

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Unfortunately, Ms. Nixon's acting is part of what's wrong with the production, for she plays Vivian Bearing, the austere, loveless scholar of 17th-century poetry around whose terrible plight "Wit" revolves, as though she were a precocious schoolgirl rather than a full-grown, forbiddingly chilly intellectual.

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While our Senate was assured, and asserted, that such a unilateral statement would have no bearing on U.S. defenses, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and the Duma formally affirmed it as part of Moscow's ratification proceedings.

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The high net interest margins at Wells Fargo have, in large part, been attributed to its large low cost average core deposits (which include noninterest-bearing deposits, interest-bearing checking, savings certificates, market rate and other savings, and certain foreign deposits).

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As in other military organisations, mental health and emotional screening would be part of the standards for militia membership, which in turn should be the qualification for keeping and bearing private arms.

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