But farmers devoted more cropland to corn and soybeans as prices of those commodities rose, and when the U.S. economy rebounded in 2009, cotton supplies started to pull tight.

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"We have to pull ourselves tight, get out there and scrap hard to get ourselves back into the game, " said Moores.

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Tie in 3 or 4 places crosswise and 1 or 2 places lengthwise (twist the string around itself 3 times instead of just once before you pull it tight, so it won't loosen as soon as you let go).

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This is a time where we look at the players and we have to pull together very tight.

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She picks at a plate of cheese in her lap while they pull her hair into a tight ponytail at the crown of her head and fashion it into a bun.

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It's going to be a tight thing for him to pull this out.

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As she struggled to pull them up, she realized they were too tight and uncomfortable -- her "big, comfy shorts" no longer fit.

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In sum, planners are willing to squeeze business and the job market with tight money because the kings of global capital would pull it out of high-inflation countries.

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Magna's tight links to Daimler-Benz may well cause BMW to pull its long-standing drive-train work from Steyr.

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"During the summer it was tight at times, myself and the financial director had to pull of a few miracles and call in some favours, " he said.

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It may form a three-weeks-tight, which is one of the indicators that we have at IBD, or it may pull back to a moving average line.

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