Yet once those concerns are relieved, oil can fall quickly: Crude dropped 4.5% this week on speculation that the U.S. and other nations might release oil from their strategic reserves to combat high prices and that Saudi Arabia might increase production.
She said it was also important to remember that regular physical activity combined with a diet high in fruit and vegetables and low in saturated fat was still the best way to combat high cholesterol and reduce the risk of heart disease.
While businesses and society institute these measures to combat the high-tech gadget abuse, the bad behavior will probably remain, Friedland says.
The reasons are obvious: to combat the super-high yen, to counteract 3.11 disaster-related contraction, to respond to global, particularly European, financial market instability.
Even so, CEO Andrew Mason seems to recognize how essential it is for Groupon to keep its sense of urgency high and combat complacency.
To increase production fish are packed in ever tighter, inviting disease outbreaks (and the expensive antibiotics and pesticides needed to combat them) and high concentrations of waste that poison the pens and the surrounding waters.
At the same time, those who view relatively unlimited gun ownership as an essential and non-assailable right granted to us all in the Bill of Rights must begin to better understand and appreciate why anti-gun advocates simply cannot see the sense and logic behind making combat style weapons and high capacity magazine clips available to civilian purchasers.
It also made some of my earliest moments in the game truly memorable: tense, high-stakes combat with both sides hidden precariously behind heater shields.
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The problem for Malaysia is that the rival parties have been at such a high pitch of combat-readiness for such a long time that the resulting partisanship is poisoning national politics.
Bid organisers said that all the stadiums will be climate-controlled and zero-carbon emitting to combat what could be temperatures as high as 50C during the two hottest months of the year in Qatar.
Herrman points out that in response to the claims that the NYSE had been flooded with three feet of water, social media users in the area uploaded photos of the building looking high and dry to combat the rumors.
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The proposed plan would retire seven cruisers early, delay construction of the next large-deck amphibious warfare ship by one year, cancel the second Virginia-class nuclear-powered attack submarine (SSN) in 2014, delay construction of two smaller amphibious warfare ships, and reduce procurement of littoral combat ships by two and joint high speed vessels by eight.
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Even if actual combat never occurs, whoever controls the high north will wield enormous influence in the coming decades.
Like many people, I had believed that hospice care hastens death, because patients forgo hospital treatments and are allowed high-dose narcotics to combat pain.
The defense department traditionally has taken the position that cost is less important than readiness and reliability in determining what sorts of personnel should fill jobs, but with budget deficits beginning to bite the high cost of manning non-combat positions in this manner will undoubtedly become subject to greater scrutiny.
World Bank lending to developing countries rose to a record high last year as it sought to combat the savage impact of Asia's financial and economic crisis on the poor.
Cartels prefer their small size, high ammo capacity and suitability for close-quarters combat, prosecutors say.
In July 1992, OSD effectively rejected the requirements established by the commands responsible for Special Operations Forces (SOF) and Navy Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR) for an aircraft with the high speed and long range capabilities critical to their respective missions.
In the Asian financial crisis, the IMF supported punishingly high interest rates to defend the region's currencies and combat inflation.
High-level characters will really enjoy some of the enemy encounters and combat challenges.
Also vulnerable are companies heavily dependent on expensive new high-tech programs, which now go under the rubric of Future Combat Systems.
My fear is that they will misinterpret the evidence and attribute high unemployment and the initial decline in prices to tight money, while increasing taxes to combat budget deficits.
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Having hundred of combat missions in World War II, Korea, and Viet Nam, he knew about making decisions in high-stress environments.
"The majority of displacements in Colombia are not because of combat, but because people are directly threatened, " said Gustavo Valdivieso, spokesman in Colombia for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
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