"It's a business problem - and people really have to take the bit between their teeth, " says Ray Muller, business consulting manager for CSSL, a Hong Kong-based reseller of IBM mainframes that will soon launch a consulting division to offer clients solutions to their Year 2000 problems.
The 24 rooms, 20 of which are spread out in cottages near the lodge, also aim to soothe, not dazzle--beige and white color schemes with rattan chairs and black iron tractor seats on the wall as decoration--and they're very appealing, even if they take the sheep motif a bit far (sheep pillows and photos, metal sheep on the rim of the deep soaking tub).
Membership of the single currency would take a bit longer, but pro-EU politicians say the simple act of applying and working towards euro convergence would reassure the markets.
If those news reports prove correct, it would take a bit of the safe-haven bid out of the gold market.
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Of course, the stories take a bit of a different turn there.
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Acting commodore Trevor Taylor is organising rallies in Greece for the club's 106 members to "take a little bit of Chipping Norton to the Ionian".
The second bit of mood music I take away from the weekend is the word "gloom" constantly appended to the thoughts and statements of Angela Merkel.
The new scheme is not bound to fail, but the sceptics will take a bit more convincing.
Second, where is the candidate chomping at the bit to take over?
It can take a bit to get the mobile cloud-printing knack, but once you do, you will never go back to carrying a pile of business cards.
"Basically, you take the good with the bad, and for what little bit of control we've lost, we've also gained a lot more opportunity for the other riders out there, " says McCoy.
And when he gets the chance to take a bit of perspective on it all, will he want to keep on fighting for all those causes that he believes in, to the detriment of his own health?
It's now going to take the governors and the county executives and the mayors a little bit of time.
So, Bruce says, Giggs was "delighted when Becks came along to take the heat off him a little bit".
Moogfest isn't happening for another week, but the synth-maker couldn't wait to take the wraps off of its latest bit of technology.
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Hospitals do not have a dietician on every ward all the time, so getting the message through can take a bit of perseverance.
Do you want to concentrate on that as much as you do with movies, or would you like the acting to take off a bit more?
And can you take us a little bit into the Roosevelt Room for what I have to imagine was a more than mildly significant moment for him personally and for those closest to him?
"Obviously we are disappointed not to take the three points and with a bit of luck maybe we would have, despite the performance not being as good as it has been in the past, " said the Scot.
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Even back in July, after we had a nice run in the marketplace, we actually had rebalanced our portfolios for our clients automatically, so they were able to take a little bit out of the equity and out of the international side and put it into the fixed-income side.
"One guy in the crowd got a little bit excited after 'take your marks' - and when the starter said 'stand up' I just went, " explained Burnett.
"The tapes can be a bit raw, and we certainly take liberties working up the material, " Rosen says.
At some point the Administration will have to work a bit harder and take more risks if it wants to actually lower the cost of health care.
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Many feel the lake is big enough to take the impact of letting the local economy grow, at least quite a bit.
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We sit, take photographs and play a bit in the sand, always mindful of the steep slopes around us.
The top import duty is down from 45% to 40%, but various intermediate rates have edged up, so the total take will go up a bit.
But they are homogeneous, and market towns can take advantage of the search for something a bit more picturesque and individual than the average out-of-town Tesco.
At some point people are going to start buying new cars again, but it's going to take a little bit of time for the automakers to get back on their feet.
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