If President-elect Obama wants to be a hero and get credit for pulling the economy out of the ditch, he has to get capital off the strike line.
Companies like Fluor and KBR get paid for engineering down the line, from the facilities to get the gas out of the ground, to the gas-to-liquids operations necessary to transport the product, to the manufacturing plants around the world designed to run off the product.
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The country still faces a productivity crisis and it will take years to get a quarter of its population out of the jobs line and back into the workforce.
Capello sought to get the best out of Liverpool's influential captain and Chelsea's Frank Lampard in the same line-up, a conundrum that has dogged his predecessors in the England job.
In the new tradition of fast-casual dining, you get on line (which often spills out into the street) to order and the food is brought to you at large communal tables.
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And the bottom line is the central bankers have a huge interest in not letting things get out of hand here.
Third, the fixed exchange rate can get badly out of line with those of trading partners.
The reason is that, in the fund-management business, revenues and costs easily get out of line when markets head down.
There may be more to the criticism that the agencies do not like their ratings to get too far out of line with one another.
Investment banks fight tooth and nail to get placement in the top line of the listing, and then poke eyes out to be placed on the left.
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Ireland gathered but O'Gara was unable to get much distance on his touch-finder and Wales launched another series of forays from the line-out.
Bottom line: governments need to get out ahead of these problems, and work on framing risks to the public in a responsible way.
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We struggled a bit in the line-out and we couldn't get any platform, but managed to get hold of the ball in the second half and it was great to score a try.
Ninety-five straight quarters of profits is nothing to sneeze at in any line of business, but in the financial industry, where many firms were lucky to get out of the 2008 crisis in one piece, losses have been a frequent occurrence at many firms for the past few years.
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