Unlike the freedom of Barclays, RBS has revealed that it has surrendered the right, albeit reluctantly, to determine how any bonuses should be paid for the current financial year, warning that it could harm the bank's ability to recruit and retain staff, and damage its attempts to recover from the financial crisis.

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Yet the chart shows how analysts have been steadily, and reluctantly, downgrading profits.

ECONOMIST: Face value

Several aviation veterans say they have come to believe, sometimes reluctantly, that Congress should limit how long people can be held on airplanes without a chance to get off a plane.

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But if America decides to go ahead without one Turkey may still, reluctantly, agree to support it, given how much it has to gain from a short, successful war and how much it stands to lose if it backs out and incurs America's wrath.

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