We are all impatient with the slow job growth associated with the sluggish recovery, but the proper policy responses are appropriate monetary and fiscal policies, not regulatory interference based on the short-term job count.

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People can do short bouts of exercise to count towards their weekly goals, but these must last for at least 10 minutes.

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Still, fraudsters count upon the short memory of the investing public.

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Matthew Cate, California's prison boss, says that the state has met the court's first target for lowering prisoner numbers and might have to ask for only a short extension to satisfy the final count.

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So the DMV Test is an inverse measure: the lower the minutes count, the worst the economy in the short to medium term.

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In the North, it now turns out that Glan Clwyd count large number of patients attending hospitals for short period, for treatments such as dialysis, who are very unlikely to die in hospital.

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Human capital is the asset that most people count on to support their families and to meet short-term financial obligations, such as buying food, paying the mortgage, and other living expenses.

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"We'd go through the count and we'd come up one or two short, " Ms. Thompson said.

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The field is often left to short-term monitors, who observe the end of the campaign, the vote and the count.

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The euro, in its short life, has been down more than up which is why it is too soon to count on its remaining strong.

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