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However, in its more benign form it provides a calming effect on markets through balance.
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Indeed, listening to these discs, and to reissues in general, will have a calming effect on devotees of great piano playing.
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The presence of the earnest and exhausted parents had an immediate calming effect on both the inebriated passengers and those around them.
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"Babies have a calming effect on a gorilla community, " he said.
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This has a calming effect on the nervous system.
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"Sympathetic concern" has also been observed in gorillas, bonobos, dogs and even rooks - but it is the calming effect that it had on the Chester Zoo chimps which is said to be a new observation.
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Trees and plants also play an important role to help induce airflow and provide shade on hotter days in courtyards, and water is a common element because it can help cool the air through evaporation and can have a calming effect on the space.
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For instance, AstraZeneca's (nyse: AZN - news - people ) Seroquel is often used for its sleep-promoting or calming effect. (see: " Antipsychotic Prescribed as Sleeping Pill") Eli Lilly 's (nyse: LLY - news - people ) Zyprexa has even been used in rare cases in patients with anorexia--one of the drug's potential side effects is weight gain.
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Members of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law recently held a hearing on three of the bills, aimed at fixing the problem on behalf of state and local governments--which depend on sales taxes to support police, fire, and other crucial services--and calming fears about the negative effect of e-commerce on their tax bases.
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Markets are feeling the opposite effect of the supposed calming measures that the ECB was supposed to instill in Europe with its rate meeting Thursday.
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