Styris, dropped by wicket-keeper Khaled Mashud off Enamul on 24, looked set for a century but failed to read a slower delivery and gave a soft return catch to Rafique.

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Since then a pulled muscle, a dodgy ankle and unsuitable going (he does not like soft ground) have prevented a return to action.

ECONOMIST: Horse-racing

Maybe it will be a rally in the dollar, the return of inflation, or another soft patch in the economic data.

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Michio Ochi, who heads the government commission charged with financial-sector reform, said it would slow down their write-offs of bad loans, and hamper their return to health (although the soft policies pursued by Mr Ochi himself are also often blamed for the banks' lingering malaise).

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The dunes' slopes will quickly return to what they have been for millennia: soft, silent, unmarked -- ready to dwarf and astonish the next day's visitors.

CNN: Romancing the dune in Namibia

Return pan to low heat and cook until vegetables are soft, about 5 minutes, stirring constantly and scraping the pan bottom well.

NPR: The Comforts of Food

In addition to concerns about so-called pay-to-play practices, they have questions about the use of soft-dollar arrangements, in which brokers collect higher commissions on trades in return for providing research and other services to advisors.

FORBES: U.S. Institute Senior Delegates�� Roundtable Speech (June 7, 2004 )

But certainly one big topic of conversation has been soft dollars--the monetary value of the research that investment banks provide to clients in return for trading order flow--which the SEC has been studying.

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