Crude oil, also paring the gains it made this week, down 1.4%.
KirchMedia's new bosses made it clear this week that they want to renegotiate the terms of these contracts.
The fight against corruption is also out of puff: it was made clear this week that self-exiled Bettino Craxi, a former prime minister hitherto wanted on several charges, would face none if he came home.
Rick Perry, the governor of the Lone Star state, made it clear this week that when he first reported hearing the call, he did not mean that it was the Lord himself issuing the summons.
It made the news again this week when the council stepped in to take over marketing the campaign for the UK City of Culture 2013.
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When I interviewed Cantor this week, he made it clear that faster economic growth was crucial to holding down spending, deficits, and debt.
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That feature has been around in one form or another since the beginning of last year, but as of this week, it's made its way to tablets, too.
That row may come to a head at the Helsinki summit this week: but it has made anything to do with tax a touchy subject for years to come.
The official declined to discuss security procedures, but said the move was made after it became clear that Dorner earlier this week gained access to the Naval Base at Point Loma and stayed in a motel there.
The government's willingness to reduce its stake in Singapore Telecom, and to give up its veto power over big decisions, made it easier for the company to strike this week's deal to buy Australia's Optus (see article).
Other observers note that while it's the flashy product roll-outs that get the attention -- pop stars Taylor Swift and Lady Gaga already have made appearances this week -- it's the deal-brokering among tech players behind the scenes that truly matters.
And if it was the Tory Europhiles who made the running this week, there was a sharp reminder of the power of the sceptical tendency when Paul Sykes, a Tory-supporting businessman, announced he was quitting the party for failing adequately to oppose the euro, taking his millions with him.
The news this past week, including this morning's news about Citigroup, has made it even more clear that we are facing an economic crisis of historic proportions.
This made it easy for Mr Brown to shrug off Mr Clinton's endorsement of Mr Newsom this week.
This week Chevron announced that it had made a nice oil discovery at the Moccasin prospect in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico.
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So it was to some surprise that the proposal was made this week not by a maverick backbencher but by the finance minister, Thierry Breton.
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The official, who was not authorized to release details to the media, declined to discuss security procedures, but said the move was made after it became clear that Dorner gained access this week to the Naval Base at Point Loma and stayed in a motel there.
With all the above boxes ticked, it is essential to have a plan once you have run the gauntlet of airport-style security -- there are 4, 000 Swiss troops in Davos this week -- and made it inside the newly-extended Congress Center with the correct color of identity pass.
Combine that with a new quarter and it made sense to get the foot off of the accelerator this week.
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This week Renault also made clear that it would be shedding 2, 764 of its 100, 000 French workforce, but without closing any of its main domestic factories.
This week, Microsoft and Mozilla made it harder.
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But like the spymasters who gave evidence earlier this week, he insisted that the claims it made were based on real intelligence, rather than political spin.
So Mr Aznar has made it up with the Cuban leader, who forgivingly came to Madrid this week.
"I don't know how to swim, but somehow I made it to shore, " she recalled in a teleconference with reporters this week.
Iran's foreign minister made a surprise visit to Turkey this week, signaling that it wants to capitalize on the rift between the United States and Turkey.
It's that sense of community that made me feel blessed when I learned this week that Richard Dawson passed away.
It was three years ago this week that a financial crisis on Wall Street made things much more difficult for working folks on Main Street.
But then she made the mistake of trying it again, maybe a week later, and this time, though nobody on the bus or at school suspected her, our mother did.
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