Metals are getting very tight in their wedges, and are opening up a bit today.

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When Kerry started to talk about changing al-Assad's calculus, the State Department reintroduced the proposals and the White House "is opening up a bit, " one of the administration officials said.

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Gold is opening down a bit today.

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Despite their continuing price sensitivity, consumers felt a bit more comfortable opening up their wallets this year, although this appears to have occurred as a result of a decline in the savings rate.

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To his credit, Adrian saw an opening to press me a bit on my own perspective and I told him that some of my friends had entered lotteries at their local parishes to try and get a coveted ticket to the Mass.

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On progress towards joining the EU, the next big test for Mr Erdogan will be whether he can budge a bit more on the opening of Turkish ports and airports to Cyprus, shaming Turkey's detractors within the EU (notably the French) into stopping their efforts to undermine the membership talks.

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Maybe Siri makes their life a little bit easier, but it's not exactly opening up a new avenue that wasn't there before.

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"It is a reasonably difficult injury, and it will take a bit of time to come back, " added Bates, speaking after Newcastle lost their opening EDF Energy Cup match 25-14 to Newport Gwent Dragons.

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"The fact that Facebook is opening a New York center for engineers, which has been the place where we may have lagged a bit, shows that we turned that corner as well, " he said.

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