But that is unlikely to continue as the cumulative effects of shaky emerging markets take their toll.
Rising capital costs would both take their toll on local firms, from large to small, and banks.
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"Seven-and-a-half hour journeys do take their toll on you when you've had two games in a week, " he told BBC Tees.
"The atmosphere, the occasion, the importance of the match, a lot of factors take their toll when making decisions, " midfielder Jenas added.
Iranians seem stoic, but the pressures of urban life take their toll.
The reduced oxygen levels will take their toll during the time aloft, and the net result is that tired, lethargic feeling when you land.
Old age will inevitably mean that the most hearty of us starts to slow and health issues will take their toll as we age.
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The risk, according to Jagdish Bhagwati of Columbia University, is that commitment to free trade could flag, particularly as electoral pressures take their toll.
Identity theft and rising fees for accepting credit cards will take their toll on retailers, who will be asking more often for cash and debit cards.
Livingston died in 1813, and the strain of the ongoing legal battles and the push to dominate America's waterways started to take their toll on Fulton.
And with all that increased stress comes the increased likelihood of irritability, anxiety and sexual dysfunction, all of which can take their toll on interpersonal relationships.
Small-sized airlines are dropping out of the skies as record oil prices take their toll, giving British Airways a choice opportunity to boost its own tiny transatlantic venture.
The economy grew at a 2.5% pace during the April-to-June quarter, the U.S. Commerce Department said, as higher interest rates and a slowing housing market began to take their toll.
Air France-KLM is renegotiating pay and conditions with its staff and cutting more than 5, 000 jobs, as high fuel costs and competition from low-cost airlines take their toll on the debt-laden company.
It was only in the last months of the war, when bureaucratic bungling and critical shortages at last began to take their toll, that Japan's output of aircraft and other military equipment dwindled.
Bearish sentiment and economic troubles continue to take their toll on the markets, but certain sectors look good and a buying opportunity may be right around the corner, writes MoneyShow.com senior editor Tom Aspray .
Murray's retrieving skills began to take their toll and prompted a run of desperately inconsistent play from Baghdatis, allowing the Scot to wrap up the first set in spectacular style with a sliding volley and two rasping forehands.
Yet progressives would have you believe it is more reasonable to believe that Congress will stand idly by as these devastating cuts take their toll than to believe they will rescue hospitals, physicians and other providers in the identical fashion that they have spared doctors in the past.
The council does not expect it do to so this year as initial set-up costs take their inevitable toll.
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The slimming-down of RBS and the cost-cutting integration of the operations of Lloyds and HBOS have yet to take their full toll.
The sales price of new homes decline in China in August as the government high interest rates and other measures take their intended toll on the red hot real estate market, China Daily reported Sunday.
This debt burden has understandably started to take a toll on their spending.
Yet some of the recently announced redundancies, at British Steel, for example, and at Vickers, a defence company, are signs that the high pound and the past year's increases in interest rates are beginning to take their long-forecast toll on manufacturing industry.
They'll carry memories of violence and displacement that could take a heavy toll on their psychological health.
The study was particularly noteworthy because alarmists claim ocean acidification will take its greatest toll on marine invertebrates such as sea stars, which will allegedly have more difficulty calcifying their external skeletons in water with more carbon dioxide.
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Matching the irony that parents see in their own struggles, scientific studies have arrived at mixed results, with some reporting that parents are happier than their non-parent counterparts, while others hint at the fact that being a parent may actually take a serious toll on your mental health.
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