Let the currency do the dirty work, in this case, means lowering domestic wages in foreign currency terms.

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The case studies are not dirty stories, however.

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You can also shake the device to clean the text in case it ends up getting "dirty, " or misaligned.

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On Monday, Empire State Manufacturing added to the bear case outside of the trading floors in the city and down on the dirty and sweaty front lines.

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Many will respond to this by saying that the U.S. remains the cleanest dirty shirt, and that a financial panic is likely to be global in which case investors will flock to our debt as a relatively safe haven.

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