It is striking that investors are looking for reasons to make riskier investments (buying shares, for example), which most would see as a good sign - although this would be self-defeating if it provided false signals to European government heads that they need to be less bold and ambitious in constructing a three-pronged rescue package for the eurozone.

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Complaining how dreadfully hard she has always found it to put words on paper, Ms Bedford looks back on the desultory years of false starts and failures, of self-confessed hedonism, sloth and doubt.

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His false figures and prevarications caused him to self-destruct.

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After the dispute, the prosecution said the defendant tried to make the weapon disappear to create a "false impression of a law-abiding citizen acting in self-defence".

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Even self-identified Tea Party voters faced with this false choice chose cutting the deficit over cutting taxes.

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By sending an email that repels all but the most gullible the scammer gets the most promising marks to self-select, and tilts the true to false positive ratio in his favor.

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The problem at HCA results from a combination of mis-diagnosis (treating people for coronary artery disease who did not have the disease) and self-referral (the provider who makes the false diagnosis then performs the treatment and profits by it).

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Nothing had remained of that false moment of intimacy, in June 2009, when he had traveled to Cairo, the self-styled herald of a new American message to the Arab world.

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