"It would have to be pretty severe weather" to hold him out again, Weiss said.

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Bits of chopped up DNA from the adenovirus, a virus that causes a pretty severe cold.

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To temper that a little bit, it should be noted that monthly inflation numbers are subject to some pretty severe swings.

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There are already pretty severe sanctions that are in place.

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By the way, given the scale of this housing market intervention, it is quite difficult to see how it can be withdrawn in three years, as per the current plan, even if the final decision on whether to pull it becomes the responsibility of the Bank of England - in that the shock to the market of ceasing this state-underwriting could be pretty severe.

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"There will be some thunderstorm activity, but the risk of severe weather has pretty much disappeared on the East Coast, " said Bruce Terry, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in College Park, Md.

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