Chiseling away at the deficit is a good idea, but it's a tactic, not a strategy.

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If not, we would still be chiseling perfectly proportioned human figures out of marble.

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In the nearly two decades since DSM-IV -- such Roman numerals suggest a chiseling in stone, don't they?

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Since they have been so successful in chiseling way at their debt, they are now looking toward another goal.

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Some people, such as myself, love the health-shopping aspect to it, where you can sock away extra money for future years by chiseling your providers.

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Designed by Farshid Moussavi, another talented female architect from London, MOCA Cleveland suggests the simplicity of a cube but is actually more complex, with chamfered edges chiseling a square roof out of a hexagonal base.

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Chiseling quarry waste into blocks, she hurt her thumb and several fingers while figuring out how to hold a piece of sandstone in place with her foot in order to shape it to the desired size.

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Though manager of hedge fund ESL Investments, Eddie Lampert, Chairman of Sears Holdings (SHLD), had been steadily chiseling down his stake in AutoNation ( AN) since the first quarter of 2010, he made his first reduction of this year in a series of transactions from Oct. 31 to Nov. 2, according to GuruFocus Real Time Picks.

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