The rough economy is hitting the sports world in more ways than soft ticket sales and weakening sponsorships.
To be sure, the country and the economy can ill afford anything more than a soft patch at the present time.
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Version software download, in order to be able to save to SD memory card is inserted into the Nintendo 3DS, do not have time or want to play more than one soft carrying at the same time, replace.
More recently, Hansen Natural with its Monster energy drinks has opened up new markets and even commanded more premium pricing than traditional soft drinks.
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In the institutional marketplace, strange as it may seem, it is possible for a money manager to profit more from soft dollars than from the negotiated asset management fee he receives.
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It was another week of shockingly negative economic reports, which you might think has Wall Street economists worried that the economy is running into something more than just a brief soft patch (their popular term of recent weeks).
As played by Anthony LaPaglia, Nixon is physically awkward and prone to third-person self-reference (more a Bob Dole tic, actually), but he is also soft-spoken and no more than ordinarily profane.
"I think professional workers and their employers are going to come to appreciate and understand networking as more of a hard skill than a soft skill, " she says.
Now he turned, holding the little table upside down against his vast belly, and this soft thing, more than all the rest, announced him as a man deserted by women.
The fact that Russia eventually agreed to help rather than hinder the West in Yugoslavia probably says more about its financial dependence (on soft western loans) than about Mr Talbott's cunning, patience or literary sensitivities.
It takes more than paying lip service to a few soft skills on a performance scorecard to get the job done.
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The hard-money totals more than make up for recent bans on "soft money" contributions.
Nobody is more touching in this regard than Darrieux, her soft wrinkles unable to erode the exquisite heroines she once incarnated for Max Ophuls.
The sage's popularity in the West still owes more to Hollywood, source of much American soft power, than China's own efforts.
Though the 100 beers on tap appeared to be more of a draw than the food, servers milled about with soft pretzels, pizza, pulled pork, meatballs and fried calamari.
According to sources at the meeting, Cunningham accused McCain of doing "more harm than good" to Republicans by advocating a ban on soft money without also calling for so-called "paycheck protection" that would impose limitations on the political expenditures of labor unions.
Peter Burwash, whose company manages tennis programs at resorts worldwide, likes the soft balls but worries that they could cause more harm than good without proper coaching.
Just as Coca Cola has protected its soft drink formula from Pepsi and other competitors for more than a century under U.S. Patent law, these frac contractors also have the right to protect their patented compounds and formulas.
Spirits, meanwhile, contain more than six times the calories of beer, and when mixed with a soft drink, the calorie-count soars even higher.
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Yet McCain-Feingold had the unintended effect of making 501(c)(4) political activities far more important than they had been, since the law's ban on soft money doesn't apply to such groups.
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But I spend a lot of time at airline check-in counters, and the vast majority of bags I see are of the soft-sided variety, which I have used more times than I can remember.
And, once the screwdriver was in her hand, she felt instant relief from the pain of having an old soft-backed man snuffling under her tub, and then something more than relief: a blessed indifference, as if the very idea of feeling pain over such a thing were baffling.
General Bonett's rhetoric is more conciliatory than his predecessor's, and some on the right fear he may be soft on the guerrillas.
Miyauchi, whose soft-spoken manner and round spectacles make him look more like a literature professor than a financial revolutionary, is undeterred.
Nevertheless, hard landing or soft landing, China data added to concerns that Asian growth is slowing more sharply than had previously been feared.
Coca-Cola says it sells more than 1.7 billion servings of beverages every day globally, making it the leader in soft drinks in the world, ahead of other major players like PepsiCo.
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It's too easy, it's too soft, it's not bland, but it's definitely a lot more refined than anything they ever did.
Western commercial angels are soothing creatures: in a world of stress their wings are as soft as fresh towels or bubble bath, their expressions gentle, their activity nothing more strenuous than praying, singing, or lightly dancing.
They say a radical overhaul of the commission system in Britain makes little sense when America, the world's largest equity market, will continue with today's arrangements, soft commissions and all. (Softing is more generous and more widely used in America than in Britain.) To have a different commission system from international peers would put British fund managers at a disadvantage, or so say London money-men.
Shoppers will find more than a dozen stores inside the hotel, including Baccarat crystal and Qiviuk , a shop that sells ultra-soft garments made from the insulating down of the Canadian Arctic musk ox.
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