While issuers avoid reducing limits below outstanding balances, your card company may decide to leave you with only a few hundred dollars in leeway.

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Mets center fielder Jordany Valdespin made an outstanding shoestring catch on a shallow fly by Erik Kratz to leave the bases loaded in the third.

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"Companies are usually generous'' when long-serving executives leave for family or health reasons, and "often provide immediate vesting of outstanding options, '' said Mr. Reilly, a partner at Compensation Consulting Consortium LLC in Chicago.

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Lisa Jackson, the outstanding administrator of EPA. Some of the finest governors in the country are here -- let me take them in order of good looks -- sorry, Arnold. (Laughter.) Jennifer Granholm of Michigan, Governor Deval Patrick of Massachusetts, and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger of California. (Applause.) Barbara Boxer just had to leave -- the head of the Environment Committee in the Senate, who'd done just outstanding work.

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