Retailers reported an even balance between food and non-food, with the start of the tourist season also boosting sales.
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Recent polling by Lord Ashcroft suggests a fairly even balance between those who would be encouraged to vote Tory if the party introduced same-sex marriage and those who would be discouraged from doing so.
This showed, in complete contrast to the government's almost untrammelled power at Westminster, the more even balance between the powers of the Scottish executive and its Parliament, and the ability of backbenchers to make progress with private members' bills.
That does not mean, however, that you have to stick with traditional (or even Natural Balance) horse shoes.
Buying American stocks does not show up when calculating the trade balance, even though it does balance currency exchanges.
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But they go further: what is happening is not just an attempt to meet road costs, or even to balance the rival costs of road and rail, but an overt experiment in putting a money price on the environment.
The city budget is a tough one to balance even at the best of times.
Its goal: to ensure buyers and sellers remain somewhat in balance even in volatile trading conditions.
We remain confident about our economy continuing to grow even for the balance of 1997.
At that level, the party might even hold the balance of power at the next general election, due by 2007.
But her muscles are so weak that she topples over like a broomstick when she gets even slightly off balance, which happens often.
How can every pundit on Cable TV talk endlessly about the fate of the dollar without ever even mentioning the balance of payments?
The largest swath of them, the baby boomers, even if their balance sheets are in good shape, are on a path of declining consumption.
The more insurmountable problem is that even if bank balance sheets were made whole again, it might not make sense for banks to lend.
The power of the audience ratings will influence the quality of product referencing in distribution and could even reverse the balance of power between brands and retail.
People can't even understand their balance sheets and stress tests.
Few expect China's current account to balance even in the medium term, but the country's surpluses are likely to stop growing so quickly and may even shrink before too long.
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It even has great balance so you can hold the phone steady when you're takin pictures with the camera, which is one of those rotating jobbies at the top left of the face.
By forging a united front, the Kurds will bolster their strength in the national assembly in Baghdad (where they may even hold the balance) and secure a key spot in Iraq's post-election constitutional debate.
But many worry that, at a time of widespread crisis, such pro-cyclical rules risk imposing too much austerity too widely, thus darkening the spectre of recession and making it even harder to balance budgets.
Even if our balance sheet stays large for a while, we have two broad means of tightening monetary policy at the appropriate time: paying interest on reserve balances and taking various actions that reduce the stock of reserves.
He has not used his newfound authority to hack at the root of the current panic, the regulatory mandate to mark these assets down to panic prices, even on the balance sheets of those companies who are not engaged in panic selling.
The growing adoption rates of payment technologies by small-business owners might partially explain why credit demand for working capital from small firms remains stubbornly low, even as their balance sheets and credit-worthiness improve, according to Robb Hilson, head of Bank of America small-business segment.
They are all investment grade, some even AA. Their governments balance sheets are fiscally sound, way better than nearly all of Western Europe and even the U.S. In Asia, the government bond market is highly liquid, with yields between 100 to 175 basis points over Treasury bonds.
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These gymnasts, I don't understand what they're doing. (Laughter.) I cannot even walk on a balance beam.
Even airlines with healthy balance sheets, such as American and Southwest, are having to pay 10-11% on secured debt.
Squats build muscle in your entire body, improve your balance and even help you go to the bathroom easier!
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But it is unlikely that health-consciousness or even a sense of balance will become a preoccupation of the proprietors anytime soon.
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