In other words, they tighten with reserve requirements and ease with open market operations in the foreign exchange market.

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We have an emergency rulemaking that was announced yesterday that would ease some of the requirements for standby equipment around the country for other operations that could flow those to the Gulf as well.

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U.S. and Iraqi military operations along the northern border had also hampered the importing of fuel, but he said the shortage should ease up soon.

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Nine safety board teams will examine aspects such as train operations and communications, signals, tracks, crash-worthiness of equipment, maintenance and survivability -- ease of fleeing the trains after the crash and other survivability factors, Hersman said.

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Instead of cutting rates to ease a blossoming crisis in the credit markets, the Fed started pumping cash through its open market operations.

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