Meanwhile, colleges and universities are facing increased pressure to limit tuition increases.
However, sharply higher crude oil prices did limit selling pressure in the precious yellow metal.
However, higher crude oil prices did limit selling pressure in the precious metals Thursday.
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The U.S. dollar index traded steady to weaker Thursday, which did limit selling pressure in the precious metals.
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The weaker dollar did limit selling pressure in the precious metals markets Tuesday.
The weaker dollar index did limit selling pressure in the precious metals.
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The weaker dollar index will limit selling pressure in the precious metals.
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Bullish outside markets Tuesday did limit selling pressure in the precious metals, as the U.S. dollar index was lower and crude oil prices were firmer.
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That did limit selling pressure in the precious metals markets Monday.
Thomas Frist says he will immediately end doctor-hospital partnerships (and dismantle existing ones), tone down Columbia's high-pressure marketing tactics and limit the firm's expansion into communities where Columbia has met (and often steamrollered) local opposition.
That did limit selling pressure in copper.
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Crude oil prices traded higher Wednesday, which did limit the selling pressure in the precious metals.
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People with knowledge of the talks say the government is putting pressure on SNS Reaal to limit the cost for taxpayers.
The signals this generates can then be fed back as resistance in the operator's glove, and also limit the maximum pressure the robot hand can exert.
Instead, he found it had failed to operate at maximum allowable operating pressure--odd, given that this pressure is usually the upper limit for safety and El Paso was under federal restrictions after an August 2000 pipeline explosion killed 12 campers in New Mexico.
The BBC's Karen Allen in Kabul says that will come as welcome news for foreign forces, which have faced government pressure in the past week to limit air strikes during anti-Taliban operations civilians areas.
Health and Human Services officials say competition among insurers, as well as provisions to limit their financial risk from attracting high-cost consumers, will exert downward pressure on premiums, and point to the tax subsidies that will limit many consumers' costs.
As a result, a newly-elected Romney would put enormous pressure on congressional Republicans to make the debt limit issue go away.
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Among the first actions: a quota system in 1995 to limit the harvest and ease the pressure the oyster fleet was putting on the dwindling population of shellfish.
BlackRock finally gave in to the pressure from its clients, announcing its decision to limit lending to 50% of the total value of securities that the fund holds.
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Every day that goes by with the government unable to borrow more money puts more pressure on the Congress simply to raise the debt limit to prevent the government from defaulting on the national debt or Social Security payments.
In South Africa, under pressure from trade unions, the government last year asked China to voluntarily limit textile exports, resuming quotas that were lifted in 2008.
The move should not only make the returns on hard assets more appealing, but it should also put some downside price pressure on the U.S. dollar index, or at least limit its upside movement.
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Such a move by the Fed should be gold and commodity-market bullish, as it would not only make the returns on hard assets more appealing, but it would also likely put some downside price pressure on the U.S. dollar index, or at least limit its upside movement.
The Obama administration will undoubtedly come under heavy pressure to move to the low end of the 500-1, 100 limit on launchers in order to match Russian reductions.
By placing a time limit on the suspension, the EU is hoping to continue applying pressure for progress to be sustained, which could possibly include constitutional change.
Under severe U.S. pressure in the 1980s, Japan allowed the yen to float stronger, with no limit on its appreciation.
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"Such increased usage has been compounded by an increase in the HGV weight limit to 44 tonnes and a move to super-single high-pressure tyres, which all adds to the damage caused to the bridge's road surfaces, " Mr Colford said.
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Instead, they and everyone else in the administration will talk up the risk of a default over the next six weeks in order to put pressure on the Republican leadership to pass a "clean" bill authorising a higher debt limit, rather than insisting on spending cuts in return.
The Department of Energy is releasing supplies from the nation's Strategic Petroleum Reserve to limit disruptions of supplies to oil refineries, which "will help take some pressure off of gas prices, " and the Environmental Protection Agency has waived rules requiring low-pollution blends in some areas in order to increase availability of gas and diesel, he said.
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