Once past the city traffic, roads everywhere in the country are more or less open.

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Although the capital markets are now open to more or less any firm, they are far more favourable to those that were already in relatively good financial health, says Carsten Stendevad of the financial-strategy arm of Citigroup.

ECONOMIST: Corporate finance

Physicians are altering their work habits in a variety of ways to work less with more becoming hospital employees or cutting back on hours their practices are open and limiting the number of patients they will see.

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They may stop offering good ideas, or they may focus on building support for their ideas in less open and more negatively political ways.

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In theory, the foreigners' reluctance should leave the market wide-open for the handful of Russian banks that have survived the crash more or less intact.

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It can be done, but it takes huge open market purchases of assets to move the economy much once the Fed funds rate is more or less at zero.

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