You place in front of them a billion pound carrot of borrowing powers - a golden carrot, if you like, but on condition that Silk or a broad swathe of it is implemented - and you make that explicit deal very public in advance.
If you pound untold billions of hedges through the markets it hurts values because it strains liquidity.
Your body can build at most about a half-pound of muscle each week, so if you eat too many extra calories trying to build more muscle, you will gain fat, too.
We took a hundred people, randomized them, and showed what academic studies have showed: you are not going to lose a ton of weight, but you will probably lose a pound a week for a few weeks.
You simply lift the 20 pound bag up close to the light and you get 30 minutes of light.
The study shows that if you increase drinking sugary beverages by one serving per day, it will lead you to gain an additional pound of body weight over four years.
For those late-night shoppers hoping these devices would be the miracle ride to lean and mean, Hirsh has this dose of reality: " If you take diet out of the picture, to lose one pound of fat, the average (160-pound person) would need one to nine months" (of working out regularly) on almost all of the devices they tested.
If you put a 2-pound box of Cheez-Its in front of me, I'd probably eat them all.
"Once they've gone on holiday this year and experienced the weakness of the pound at the resort, I think you'll find that the demand for non-euro countries will accelerate, " he said.
Over the next three days in sunshine, fog, and misty rain, I will catch halibut, lingcod, rockfish, and more than a dozen salmon, though never one of the great 30-pound tyees they give you a gold pin for.
And we do mean hefty -- this laptop apparently tips the scales at 1.88 Kg, which puts it a touch over the four pound mark. 4.1 pounds certainly isn't shoulder busting, but it's a solid half a pound more than you'd expect from a machine of this size.
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Judge Roy Moore's Ten Commandments monument--you know, that 5, 000-pound slab of granite--was there taking a visit in Woodstock, Virginia.
And then you can total it up and you can se, well, it took a pound of CO2 to produce that shampoo.
In a 20-knot breeze the kite is already straining at the 500-pound test control lines with enough force to pull you halfway out of the water.
Are you going to recommend that seeking to extract their pound of flesh from these parties is a better approach to strengthening their mental health than doing the hard work of examining their own attitudes and behaviors and empowering themselves to make the needed changes?
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So even if you are off the floor, CEA still gets its pound of flesh.
" Without jockeys, he added, "You'd have a lot of 1, 200-pound objects running in every direction.
Could you just short one of these things to hedge away your pound exposure?
She cooked her pies in a pan the size of a Western Flyer, and she did not cut you a piece but scooped out a mound, a solid pound of pie.
Originally called Cherry Chase, it was renamed Cherry Chaser before becoming the Cherry Mash, but whatever you called it, the candy features a quarter-pound mound of chopped roasted peanuts blended with chocolate over a smooth cherry fondant center.
Undoubtedly, the first thing you'll notice is the mass of the 62.9-pound (28.6 kg) kit.
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However, if you can't find a whole fish, a 4-pound section of cod or halibut fillet works just as well and tastes just as good.
At its best, the battery is rated to last 3.7 hours -- not bad for a 13.34 8.39-pound system -- and you can exert some control over the runtime by selecting from one of four power modes using an analog dial.
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People have their favorite lobstermen, and there is a lot of romance associated with ordering from the guy who owns the boat, or the lobster pound you once visited on vacation, but the truth is that Maine lobster is Maine lobster, and it is all the best lobster you can get.
The active optical SteadyShot offers twice the stability of its predecessor, and at 1 pound, 14 ounces, representing a 30-percent reduction, you'll be holding the binocs with a bit less discomfort, too.
They moved at astonishing speeds for people of that size, and, long before you saw them, you heard them: the sound of one two-hundred-and-fifty-pound man colliding with another echoed around the practice facility.
You might have hoped that a more than 20% fall in the value of the pound during the financial crisis would have been enough to help us start to re-balance the UK economy - boosting the competitiveness of UK plc, and so reducing the gap between our exports and our imports.
Your two-pound-per-week rate of weight loss is safe and healthy, so I'm not concerned that you have lost weight too quickly, leading to a plateau.
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But perhaps most importantly, after a two-year break, you achieved that very first goal you set at the start of every season: You beat Air Force, you beat Army, and lugged this 170-pound trophy back to Annapolis.
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