The ceiling could fall back down again in 2013, they say, or the government could decide to "claw back" gift- and estate-tax savings from this year and next.

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Markets that fall down come back, and this the property investment market has come back from a very still place at a a rate that caught some flat-footed while buoying others aloft.

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Riskier, perhaps, is Pakistan's fall-back: to bring the oil down the Himalayas into China, since Islamabad gets transit fees regardless of where the pipeline ends.

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And it's much tougher to move back up the list than to fall down.

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Looking at input costs, which generally gives insight into pent-up inflation, one sees that PPI fell 0.3% in July on the back of a marked fall in gas prices (down 3.1% in July and 40% on a three-month annualized basis).

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But Spanish ace Nadal kept battling and got a lucky break in the fourth game of the decider as his U.S opponent's return hit the net cord and bounced back on his side of the net to fall down a break.

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That immediate gratification attitude is what gets our credit card balances skyrocketing, our decision to purchase a home with little or no money down, little or no cash reserves to fall back on and insufficient assets to fund education for our children or retire in comfort.

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Revenue at the equities division of the investment bank tumbled by half in the first quarter, compared with the same period in 2007, but much of the fall can be put down to reduced levels of proprietary trading as the bank pegged back its trading limits.

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