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.
Then, the Chinese government has confirmed, with some prodding from Wikileaks, that it wants a reunified Korean peninsula.
Yet it takes little prodding for locals to voice doubts about him.
It has sometimes taken prodding from the media and opposition to make sure that funds are disbursed.
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Moreover, by prodding companies into affirmative action, while making it harder to recruit foreigners, governments are also encouraging the wrong kind of diversity.
First, and most conspicuously, it allows some crummy candidates to win by prodding racial sore spots.
"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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In fact, it might be recalled that only after much international prodding did the government even acknowledge in late 2001 the existence of terrorist training camps in Indonesia, only to have their Foreign Minister Hassan Wirajuda deny there was evidence that local Muslim organizations had ties to international terrorist networks.
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.
Prodding Russia to change direction will be all the harder, because the West gave it much bad or useless advice in the past.
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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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"I think that when they are looked at in context, it will be clear that this is a lot of talk and a lot of prodding by the informant and certainly talk by the defendants but nothing that was really a valid plot, " Cipparone said.
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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