However, the bank has also expressed two worries that may swing the argument in favour of still-higher rates.
So the pendulum may swing back towards someone in the mould of Jacques Delors, the president from 1985 to 1994.
Sure, bad bounces happen and, occasionally, the winds of fortune may swing in your favor, but the primary driver of consistent success is practice.
If contractors can make voters aware of the impact of sequestration, it may swing the election in their favor and preserve jobs and contracts, benefiting their bottom line and the states in which they operate.
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The balance may swing back slightly next year, but the mix is threatened on a number of fronts in the longer term, raising doubts as to whether margins will return to their previous levels over the next few years.
The ultra-nationalist National Union Party may well swing its four votes behind a Labourless government too.
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Tea Party fans may demand politicians swing for the fence every at-bat but not average conservatives.
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Here the most important type of elector may not be swing voters but those too furious to vote at all.
However, the investor focus may now well swing back to European consumer trouble as August retail numbers from the continent start trickling out over the next couple of weeks.
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Men may only use their right hand to swing the mallet, while women may use both hands.
Wearing lumbar corsets may have affected the swing's speed and accuracy as well as the carrying distance, or length of the shot, they said.
In the process Ms Whitman and Ms Fiorina may have lost many swing voters in a state where independents are 20% of the electorate.
That's hardly going to carry the South for Gore, but projecting the morally conservative image hinted at in Lieberman's announcement may be designed for swing states.
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Mobile ad monetization may be starting to swing upward for the industry as a whole, as Google ( GOOG) showed in its results earlier this month.
The early start, at 1030 BST, may have helped Brunt find swing, and she was quick to cash in, bowling the dangerous left-hander Aimee Watkins (scorer of an unbeaten 89 in the semi-finals), and then adding the wickets of Lucy Doolan - caught behind attempting a paddle-sweep - and Rachel Priest, who was caught and bowled.
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However, with the holiday season in full swing, Huckabee also may be peaking at the right time.
The instructors draw a lot of those Johnny Miller lines on your swing, which beginners may have trouble interpreting or translating into actual physical changes.
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To gauge how swing-state voters may be feeling about the economy, MoneyRates.com examined household finances in these places to measure how conditions have changed since 2008.
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Depending on how the elections swing in November, the rules may not even make it that far before being shot down.
"One year from now these applications will be in full swing, " he said in May, as the telecom sector hit new lows.
If Asia's central banks also remain willing swing purchasers of the dollar, that may seem cause for relief: it suggests that things will go on much as they are, avoiding a hard landing.
If Mr Hague hangs on as leader until the one after that, he may catch the electoral pendulum as it begins its backward swing.
You may even resent getting up early to have people judge your swing or aim.
While Harrington may not necessarily be ready to unleash the eye-catching swing when he goes in search of his third consecutive British Open Championship title at Turnberry, Scotland next month, the technique may still have a place in the game.
But McDonald - who tracks how many early votes have been cast and, when possible, by which political party - says that it may be possible to determine the eventual winner by watching hotly-contested swing states.
Even as Ryan fires up conservatives, he may also mobilize votes for Obama -- including senior citizens who reside in key swing states like Florida.
Professor Paul Whiteley of the University of Sheffield calculates that the 17% by-election swing from Labour to Liberal Democrat would be enough, if repeated in May, for the Liberal Democrats to seize Sheffield.
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