Moreover, still robust technical conditions kept a floor under loan prices.

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And that includes being on the factory floor these days, because most of the equipment is highly technical.

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Williams shoved Clayton to the floor, and the New Yorker playing at home was called for a technical.

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As a result, the VIX is now being squeezed into technical support in the 17-17.50 area, a region that has provided a floor for the index since late January.

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An angry Paul George uncharacteristically smacked the floor after being called for a foul in the third quarter, leading to a technical foul on Vogel that seemed to get Indiana refocused.

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The engineers and technical workers in the union work on plans for new planes and solve problems that arise on the factory floor.

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The plan "involves a thousand times as much money as AIG executives received in bonuses, and it would make the American people a thousand times as angry, except for the fact that it is so technical that the American people may not fully understand it, " Sherman said in a speech on the House floor.

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