Talking to Ruth, she reminds me it's not easy keeping up with health care costs, and so Ruth is very anxious to see health reform passed so that small businesses can pick up the cost for their employees.
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That can make a desktop PC monitor an easy platform for keeping up with the cable TV news channels all day--or the baseball game you're missing because you're rushing to make a deadline.
It would unlock chains of inter-company debt, as well as weaning banks off the easy option of keeping big chunks of their balance sheet in (supposedly) risk-free government bonds and encouraging them to take more credit risk.
In his paper he recommended that the Fed commit to keeping policy easy until the economy reaches a particular target, such as nominal GDP (ie, output unadjusted for inflation) returning to its pre-recession path.
Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, R-Mississippi, acknowledged the rules of the Senate would allow the Democrats to keep up the tactic for as long as they wanted, but as the chamber's chief scheduler he was not going to make their lives easy if they insisted on keeping it up.
But with better and more user-friendly appliances hitting the market each quarter, it's easy to succumb to a "keeping up with the Jones'" mentality.
It was impossible to find a position that allowed this reviewer to stretch across the screen with his thumb while keeping the lock key within easy reach.
But keeping things secret and keeping people's trust is not easy to achieve at the same time.
Keeping up with social media is not easy, says Sarah Carter, vice president of marketing at Actiance, a California communications compliance firm that was known as FaceTime Communications until January.
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Marketers have to think about repackaging their brand materials into easy, consumable, bite-size pieces, while keeping the brand experience true, authentic and relevant to the audience.
Nonetheless, keeping the opposition motivated and united will not be easy.
Keeping up with all the social media conversations is never easy, but when an event like South By happens, it can be deafening.
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By keeping interest rates at historic lows, however, his easy money fueled manias: first the Internet bubble and then the now-burst mortgage bubble.
With little expertise at keeping information private online, kids with cards are an easy target for identity theft, often putting the family finances at risk.
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When imagining the complexity in business, I recommend keeping things in perspective: Building product is usually relatively easy compared with figuring out what to build and how to connect that product with the market.
However, what was a bit bearish for the gold market and other raw commodity markets is that the Fed said it is aware of the costs of a very easy U.S. money policy and that it will be keeping a very close eye on U.S. economic growth progress.
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However, what was just a bit bearish for the gold market and other raw commodity markets is that the Fed said it is aware of the costs of a very easy U.S. money policy and that it will be keeping a very close eye on U.S. economic growth progress.
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If keeping guns out of the hands of criminals were as easy as outlawing certain categories of guns or ammunition or more thorough background checks, then it seems that all of the existing gun laws would have been more effective at reducing gun violence and that cities with the strictest gun laws, like Washington DC and Chicago, would be among our safest.
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But keeping their support and that of the trade unions may not be easy.
"Bill Clinton is balancing the budget while keeping our pledge to the elderly, the young and our future -- not because it is easy -- but because it is right, " Bayh said.
The new Acer C7 Chromebook is the ideal additional laptop for families, students and business people that need a fast, easy and secure way to get online to do their computing in the cloud, such as using Gmail, keeping up on social networks, shopping, and paying bills.
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Just as you'd expect, apps can be downloaded to specific users, keeping each account completely unique -- but if another user wants the same app, it's easy enough to just install it, since it's technically already on the tablet.
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