Since consumers typically must forfeit unused funds by year's end, they often ended up scrambling in December to drain their funds by loading up on aspirin, antacid and the like.
The route of the Fleet continues north, through Ray Street and its telltale drain, and up towards the gleaming new Kings Cross rail station.
In Gough Square, in front of Samuel Johnson's tall and staring house, I stopped for a while to watch a workman digging up a drain, taking the opportunity to gaze down into the rich strata that lay beneath the London pavement.
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The central bank has been forced to drain currency reserves to prop up the Egyptian pound.
The light weight comes thanks, in part, to the fact that the company didn't beef up the battery, instead offering up some software bumps it says compensate for the additional battery drain that comes with things like a revved-up display.
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Stinky-looking brown water suddenly spews from the drain, and partially mashed-up apples are sprayed all over the walls and floor.
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She felt around in the blocked sink with her rubber gloves, poking into the plughole with the toothbrush, pulling at the ends of the fibres caught in the trap, tugging and coaxing until she began to deliver up out of the drain a nasty mass, a thick rope of hair and soap and matted insulation, in a gulp of bad drain smell.
Meanwhile, after aggressive efforts to clean up bad loans, that drain on profits has been stemmed.
Like many jockeys, he took diuretics to drain water from his system and ran up to 25 miles a day.
In every house we visited, your cup gets topped up apparently forever, until you drain it entirely or demur.
So when people get something that they think is a pimple that doesn't go away, its generally not a good idea to poke and to try drain it yourself, but to certainly follow up with a doctor, because sometimes, what we found with MRSA as opposed to other regular bacteria, is that they may require some systemic antibiotics instead of just, you know, a simple drainage procedure.
But migrants as a whole, in the long term and counting the contribution of their children when they grow up and get jobs, are not a drain on public services.
The highways that ring Manhattan along the water sit atop a series of tide gates that are designed to drain water from the road and keep water from gurgling up from below, said Sam Schwartz, a former city transportation commissioner who now works as a consultant.
In a "grantor trust, " for example, the tax is paid by the person who sets up the trust, so it doesn't drain assets from the trust itself, says Alan Kufeld, a certified public accountant at Rothstein Kass's family-office group.
Moreover, the battery is sized up in the latter, presumably to handle the higher power drain of the 1080p panel and the Core i5 processor.
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There is NO income drain that is suffered by the U.S. when a citizen takes up residence outside of U.S. territory.
Obviously, I could go into and out of these stocks based on my assessment of market conditions, but even if my timing is reasonably accurate, the drain from dealing with even reasonable low-price-stock spreads can add up.
The endless restructurings and mergers have definitely distracted many companies, and created a big brain drain, but the underlying intrinsic productivity potential of many of these groups has gone up, not down, from what I can tell.
In New York City's Staten Island, at a tent shelter set up for superstorm victims still living without power, volunteers used tarps and a makeshift drain to keep the bad weather out.
"These products are often referred to as upgraded accounts, but if you end up paying for an element you cannot claim on, it is money down the drain, " said Sheila Nicoll, FSA director of policy.
Using general anesthesia, the surgeon threaded a catheter up her nose, expanded a tiny balloon and cleared a permanent space for her sinuses to drain.
And in Greenland, scientists suspect the melt waters that drain through holes, or moulins, in the ice cap to the bedrock may have contributed to the speed-up of glaciers in that region, too.
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