The money is pulled out of active circulation in the economy, which has the same effect as an official decrease in the money supply.

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Rejecting pressure from the U.S. Fed to cut interest rates, one ECB official said there is too much money in circulation, another sign that Europe is seeking its own way out of what it sees as a crisis born in the U.S.A. Sylvia Poggioli, NPR News, Brussels.

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The unfit notes are destroyed and the notes deemed fit for re-circulation are added back into Reserve Bank inventories to be paid out to banks in filling future orders.

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Pulliam may be turning over in his grave, but Weil says he doesn't rule out shuttering the afternoon Indianapolis News, which has lost 70% of its circulation in 11 years.

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When they approached the circulation desk to check it out, the librarian looked at them with a touch of respect in his eyes.

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Most of the meteorologists I know who were out in the field that day are represented by the dots south and east of the storm circulation.

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Is this, then, a test case for publishers who could work in tandem with the fans of underappreciated and out-of-print books to bring them back into circulation?

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