Hard or soft, commodities have fuelled desire, greed and war since the days of Pharaoh.
There was no phrasing, no indication of loud or soft, on scores from his time.
Like aspirin or soft drinks, they are not subject to age, licensing, or other restrictions.
The manufacturers say it will be able to land on short, unpaved runways or soft grass fields.
In general, for most painful conditions, experts say choosing a mattress that isn't too firm or soft is ideal.
Not surprisingly, many Egyptians are crying foul, describing the SCAF's dodgy refereeing as a power grab or soft coup.
Should you choose to go to the table, feel free to order the water or soft drink of your choice.
"The real issue is whether we have a hard or soft landing, " says Hugh Johnson, chairman of money manager Johnson Illington Advisors.
Many of the commissions, hard or soft, that pension funds end up paying go, for instance, into research reports that lie unread.
Nevertheless, hard landing or soft landing, China data added to concerns that Asian growth is slowing more sharply than had previously been feared.
To be termed a compound fracture, outside air with bacteria and debris are able to access the fracture site without skin or soft tissue serving as a barrier.
Consultants also shall provide full disclosure of any payments they receive from money managers, in hard or soft dollars, for any services they provide, including but not limited to, performance measurement, business consulting and education.
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Just as minimal diversification makes any investment portfolio more risky, a maker of laundry detergent, cosmetics or soft drinks could be flirting with danger when a high percentage of sales are pushed through a single retailer.
"It was a tough lie and I didn't know if it would come out hot or soft, so I protected it and played a real safe shot but it didn't really get out and I had to chip again, " he said.
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In my years of experience marketing brokerage services, virtually the only time I have found a single broker-dealer as a commission recapture or soft dollar broker for a fund is what it is an affiliated broker-dealer of the consultant of the fund.
Unlike other major central banks, including the Bank of England and the US Federal Reserve, the Bank of Canada's six-member governing council makes its decisions by consensus rather than votes and present verdicts as a common decision, thereby avoiding being labelled hard or soft on policy.
Their new rear wing and new floor should make the car go quicker, but they do not have the track time at a race weekend to go through the thousands of combinations of ride heights and hard or soft suspension settings, versus high or low wing levels.
In an ordinary market like shoes or soft drinks, the case for blocking the merger of two out of six firms would be pretty weak, because we could be confident that consumers could shift to smaller competitors or new entrants should the largest incumbents do a poor job of serving their customers.
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Although it seems fairly straightforward and simple there is actually a tremendous amount of pedaling and steering involved, along with counting gears, remembering what parts on the course are rough or soft and need to be avoided, looking at RPM, paying attention to the sounds of the engine and the car and being on alert for the unexpected to happen.
But where Gurung was about modern take-charge urban warriors, Adam Lippes of Adam showed a crowd-pleasing delicately feminine collection of light airy dresses in sheer pastel fabrics or in soft silks in shades of pink or ivory.
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These are the funny-looking Swiss-made shoes that mimic the experience of walking barefoot in sand or on soft grass.
And you have a piece of stale cheese and perhaps a glass of wine or a soft drink.
Maybe it will be a rally in the dollar, the return of inflation, or another soft patch in the economic data.
Madlener explains that, depending on where you're sitting in relation to the sound source, it's either too loud or too soft.
Gout is a disease in which uric acid salts (urates) are deposited in joints or in soft tissues (this is called tophaceous gout).
Rather than bemoan the perils of digitalization or a soft ad market, he touts the unmatched reach a traditional broadcast series like CSI can provide advertisers.
While opinion is mixed on whether its current slowdown will end in a hard or a soft landing, China is unlikely to trigger a full-scale commodities rescue in the near future.
But many Americans get much more riled about elitist liberals than they do about elitist Republicans particularly if those liberals embrace the teachers' unions while sending their own children to private schools, or go soft on crime while making sure that they live in the safest bits of town.
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