As Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke has acknowledged, the Fed is good at slowing down an economy, but not so good at prodding it back to life.
It is prodding firms to settle trade and even acquire foreign companies in its own currency.
That's why it may take some prodding by you and other workers to get the ceiling raised as high as it can go.
Moreover, by prodding companies into affirmative action, while making it harder to recruit foreigners, governments are also encouraging the wrong kind of diversity.
"Jonah" was painted amid this clutter, and it can look, with a bit of prodding and eye-squinting, like an old moccasin among discarded dropcloths.
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CenterCal Properties has had an easier time getting financing due in part to its institutional backing and because it has always sought to prelease properties even without banker prodding.
Thales has been dragging its heels, despite prodding from the government, which still holds a 30% stake in it.
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Such numbers go far in explaining how it is that Groupon managed to overcome dashed investor expectations and suspicious prodding by regulatory authorities with its pretty amazing quarterly earnings report and why companies such as Google, Amazon and American Express, just to name three, are trying to horn in on the market that is widely believed to be oversaturated.
We hit up a Sony Ericsson product rep at this week's Apple Expo in Paris (yeah, it's not just Apple people in attendance), who with a little prodding confirmed for us a couple of rumors about some of their upcoming 3G phones.
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It has taken a while for the management to recognise that England's approach to one-day cricket is more tentative and shackled than most of their opponents, and while it is always possible to over-attack, it would be preferable to see them fail while trying to lift their game than to watch the batsmen prodding about and apparently frightened of failure.
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