We have begun to reverse the devastating slide, but we have a long way to go to repair the damage from this recession, and that will continue to be my focus every single day.

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She would rather go to the market to get fresh and local fruits and vegetables than slide through the drive-thru.

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The notion is that an individual can go up to an ATM with a check and slide the check into a slot where it will be imaged and base deposited so that it's immediately posted to your account.

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But, unless he is prepared to see the country go bust and slide back towards the dismal standards of the era of Enver Hoxha, his Stalinist predecessor, Mr Berisha has no choice.

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Mr. Slater was the JetBlue flight attendant whose version of "Take This Job and Shove It" in 2010 was to inflate the rescue slide on his plane and grab a six pack to go.

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Federer has now won five Wimbledon titles, five US Opens, three Australian Opens and one French Open, a triumph that will go some way to silencing those who claimed his career was on the slide amid the rise of world number one Rafael Nadal.

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The extent of the bull market in these shares suggests that Wall Street thinks the dollar's slide has some way to go.

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Word of a Sprint pay-as-you-go service crossed our desks just yesterday in the form of a leaked slide, and now Big Yellow has confirmed to FierceWireless that the effort, dubbed Sprint As You Go, will launch on January 25th.

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