In a recent email, he said he supports all antidoping efforts, but wonders whether amateurs will simply learn to game the system, as many pros have done, particularly by easing off performance-enhancing drugs ahead of competition.

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And rather than the instability easing off, it's actually depended, with longer cross-border operations--back and forth across the border between Sudan and Chad, and greater challenges throughout the region for stability.

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The Fed did a 180-degree turn, from tightening to easing, and the financial markets took off like a rocket.

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Risk-off investing strategies have definitely taken hold, but the possibility of easing, either from the Federal Reserve, the ECB, or both, has now risen exponentially.

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In easing the restaurant off the shoals LeRoy must deal with a partner in the 74-year-old Russian Tea Room (Tavern on the Green is owned outright).

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Many wonder if the U.S. Federal Reserve will back off on monetary easing when other major central banks of the world are stepping harder on their easy-money accelerators to reinvigorate their economies.

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