The blue-chip benchmark retreated in previous sessions amid weak job-market and manufacturing data, closing at a current-year low on Monday.

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Hence decades worth of hand-wringing over the Trans-Alaska Pipeline and the (current) closing of large areas of the North Slope to oil drilling.

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To many, the current legislation aimed at closing the gender wage gap soon begins to look absurd.

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Speculators had started to reduce their net-long positions in the prior report, so the data in the current report reflects continued closing out of longs.

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The combative Mr Lafontaine resists cuts in taxes for the rich so long as Mr Kohl's loophole-closing plan does away with the current tax breaks for night, weekend, holiday and other work which, the Social Democratic leader thinks, his own supporters have particularly enjoyed.

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The company, which provided mechanical and electrical services such as air conditioning, boiler maintenance and heating installation, said it was closing with immediate effect because of the current economic climate.

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The 2010 Deficit Commission, Congress and current administration want fundamental tax reform, closing tax loopholes and lowering income tax rates.

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All that will weigh heavily on the bourse, and, current bargains aside, no one expects the blue-chip Hang Seng Index to recover its August record closing high of 16, 673 any time soon.

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