Lastly, the G7 commitment to prevent exchange rate misalignment following the prolonged financial crisis in emerging markets has prompted policy initiatives to create a loose target-zone regime among the dollar, yen and euro.

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He would like a loose free-trade zone instead of what he sees as a nascent superstate.

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Daniel Alfredsson, Ottawa's 40-year-old captain, claimed a loose puck in the Rangers' zone and wheeled it out to the point, where he shoveled it to Sergei Gonchar.

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Defenseman Ryan McDonagh found a lane to the net but failed to beat Penguins right wing Craig Adams to the loose puck, which was subsequently tipped out of the zone.

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Liverpool's winner spun off the foot of Fulham's Pantsil as he attempted to clear a loose ball and the defeat leaves Fulham only four points above the relegation zone.

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But euro-zone policy makers may not have the luxury of time, particularly if loose talk of depositor haircuts continues to circulate in a country where a quarter of deposits are foreign-owned with overnight notice.

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Not only did Carl Hagelin win a battle for a loose puck with Gonchar along the boards, but Hagelin squirmed past Gonchar and chugged into the Ottawa zone.

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In other words, it was well within the strike zone the Republicans institutionalized in 1988 when they turned the GOP's amiable hitman Lee Atwater loose with his "Willie Horton" ad against Michael Dukakis.

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