The latest media template is that the vice presidential nominee is a drag on the GOP ticket.
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Having anything stolen is a drag, but having your pride and joy bicycle go missing is a real kick in the pants.
Just as the trouble in America's housing market is a drag on the economy, the turmoil in the subprime-mortgage market weighs on the currency.
Austerity is a drag on economic growth, which cuts tax revenues.
Even under the most trouble free circumstances, it is a drag.
Moreover, the trend growth in unit labor costs is less than 1% annualized, meaning there is a cap on wages which is a drag on consumer spending.
And remember, if you reduce government spending, in the short run that is a drag on the economy, so you are guaranteeing slower growth in the short run.
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And that has an uncertain effect on returns--it's obviously very helpful in bad markets and is a drag in good markets--but the beauty of it is that it reduces your impulsive behavior.
Many poorer women who are not well educated are forgoing marriage, believing that a man is simply a drag and an additional mouth to feed, Ms Rosin argues.
Higher government spending is consequently a drag on the economy, and cutting that spending is a boost to growth and prosperity.
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Raytheon's commercial aircraft unit is a financial drag, as is its ailing pension plan.
And the reason the housing market is still a big drag on the economy as a whole is we built a lot of homes over the previous five, seven, 10 years.
The result is a smooth drag with no hitches that could break off a fleeing fish.
Plus there is a further drag on the economy depending on which of the financing means are used.
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Worse, the federal government is increasingly a drag on state and local budgets, as Washington cuts its own spending.
Lack of access to water and sanitation is a major drag on economic growth and costs countries in sub-Saharan Africa around 5% of their GDP each year.
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Rather, because the resulting deficits imply future tax increases, and the private sector spends the money more productively overall than the public sector, it is a net drag on the economy.
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"Europe is definitely a drag on risk assets again this week as investors are worried that Spain's debt burden could be bigger than expected and that a full bailout may be required, " said CityIndex chief market strategist Peter Esho in Australia.
"Raceway Park, for us, is more than a drag strip, " Napp said.
Housing is no longer a drag on economic growth, and residential investment has added 0.3 percentage points to real GDP, on average, over the past seven quarters.
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Europe is also a big drag on U.S. stocks.
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His spending program, known locally as the Economic Transformation Plan, is a bid to drag Malaysia out of the so-called middle-income trap, which forces many emerging economies to compete with each other in producing cheap exports instead of developing more-sophisticated, value-added products.
The European sovereign debt crisis is expected to remain a drag on global equity markets again in September.
Having to manually reconnect each time is a bit of a drag, but probably better than the battery drain you'd get by leaving Bluetooth constantly on.
Even if the demand for housing falls no further, weakness in residential construction is likely to remain a drag on economic growth for a time as homebuilders try to reduce their inventories of unsold homes to more normal levels.
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