The sharp losses in crude the past two days have weighed on bullish attitudes in many commodity markets.

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"Increasingly these days we are weighed down with bureaucracy and that is as true in the church as anywhere else, " he said.

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But also I think there is something, I mean increasingly these days we are bound, weighed down with bureaucracy, and that's just as true in the church as anywhere else.

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All of this has to be weighed and argued over in the days ahead.

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With the release of the film, based on Dan Brown's record-breaking best seller, just days away, America's Catholic Bishops have weighed in with their own Dan Brown debunker: a TV documentary and DVD, Jesus Decoded.

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These days, the German approach to Poland seems slightly less weighed down by memories of the war.

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Within days of the first wave of media coverage, the more responsible press weighed in and contextualized analysis emerged.

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Apple weighed on the latter, falling 0.4% after three straight days of gains.

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Everyone -- a lot of people, and certainly we made clear back in December that a political effort to short-circuit that process for ideological reasons would be counterproductive because a proper review that weighed all the important issues in this case could not be achieved in 60 days -- according to the State Department, which, again, runs this review process.

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