• No wonder the bookies have him at only even-money to survive as Tory leader until the next general election.

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  • This is known as a death spiral, now an even-money probability.

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  • Trott's commanding knock of 101, coming after a lean run in South Africa, gives him a better than even-money chance that he has a role to play in the first Test.

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  • Flashback is coming off a second-place finish in the San Felipe Stakes on March 9, when he was the even-money favorite, but got caught in a pace duel and lost by a half-length to Hear the Ghost, who drew the No. 2 post and was listed at 5-2.

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  • Critics carp about the budget deficits of those years, overlooking the fact that wars--even cold ones--cost money.

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  • At the same time, a group of small regional exchanges is drawing something even better--money.

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  • GDP, but business lobbyists have stymied even unobjectionable money-raising schemes, such as indexing taxes on cigarettes and alcohol to inflation.

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  • In some areas, they even provide money-transfer services.

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  • But because banks are using central-bank liquidity to plug holes in their short-term funding, the money multiplier is collapsing: even as reserves swell, broad-money and credit growth is wilting.

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  • "The President of the Republic was aware of the money that would be brought into Argentina and - even worse - he instructed Antonini to take that money to Buenos Aires, " said Planas.

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  • You were caught unawares by capital gain distributions forced on you last year-even as the fund was losing money-and then clobbered by the tax bill this April.

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  • Without the things that only states can provide - sanctuary, intelligence, logistics, training, communications, money - even the bin Laden network and others like it could manage only the occasional car bomb.

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  • Then a fiscal stimulus might even be a money-making proposition for the government.

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  • John Byrne, former head of compliance at the American Bankers Association, recently told congressional committees that regulatory requirements for dealing even with legit money-transfer services had become so burdensome for banks that they were filing suspicious-activity reports at every turn and shutting down remittance accounts.

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  • Fighting criminal charges--even frivolous ones--soaks up time and money and causes considerable emotional distress.

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  • Yet if the risks in the eurozone are receding, why are investors still parking most of their money in "safe haven" German bonds -- and even paying Berlin for the privilege of lending it money as the negative yields at recent auctions of short-term German bonds illustrate?

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  • They got a chance to refinance -- even though their home was underwater -- put that money back in their pockets because we had taken some steps as an administration to make that available for those who have mortgages held by government agencies like the FHA or a government guarantee.

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  • Even government-directed medical research money is redirected from some other research or productive use.

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  • But agreeing a ransom leads to an even bigger headache - getting the money to the pirates.

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  • That means, within hours, there will be a new Greek finance minister - even if no more money for extra people at the ministry.

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  • Yet so long as you remain the account's owner, you can change the beneficiary or even take the money back -- if the state plan permits it.

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  • After Pejic graduated from high school, he was given the opportunity to expand his modeling reach beyond the conservative, more masculine Australian market to London -- his mom even borrowed money for the flight to get him there.

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  • In their different ways, the US Federal Reserve, the Bank of England and the Bank of Japan have all made clear that will continue to offer massive support for the economy in the form of cheap money - even if and when the recovery finally starts to gather some steam.

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  • Lender said he was inspired to dedicate his fund-raising skills to the DNC -- even though he considers the explosion of political money "obscene"--because of Lieberman's competency and commitment to the country, as well as his status as the first Jew on a national ticket.

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  • They learned this mostly from hard experience: their own, home-grown money-jiggerers tend to be worse even than those at the Fed and ECB.

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  • The Shooter and his wife are separated, Bronstein wrote, although they live in the same house -- "on very friendly, even loving terms" -- to save money.

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  • The government now requires certain businesses to have a Anti-Money Laundering Program in place even though the particular business has never had a problem with money laundering.

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  • Groups of parents like this one in Massachusetts -- parents shocked and even disgusted at how little money is being spent on their children's diseases -- are popping up in various parts of the country.

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  • And some House Republicans are even returning money that they got from Tom DeLay's political action committees, even though Republican re-election campaign officials have so far not recommended returning any of that money.

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  • Twenty states, including Maryland, Illinois and Utah, forbid you to play at home for money--even penny stakes.

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