They have lifted reserve requirements for banks, hectored speculators and ordered lending to the steel, cement and car industries, among others, to be cut.

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Before Yesware, sales people would get hectored by their bosses to type into the corporate Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system the status of their sales calls.

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They noted, in particular, that he dithered and wobbled when hectored by telephone from Pristina, Kosovo's capital, by Adem Demaci , an iconic figure in Kosovo politics.

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This is a particular problem for Gen-Y, which is being told to achieve, excel, and self-promote while at the same time being hectored by their elders about their presumed sense of over-entitlement.

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The first step was to put a call through to the London bureau, the instructions read: "It should take you no longer than three minutes for the operator to get you a line, " it hectored.

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They are just tired of being hectored by scientists proclaiming certain apocalypses that never pan out: Examples include acid rain and the death of the forest, asteroids, the population bomb, and a catastrophic extinction of species that has eluded detection.

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