Have you ever felt confused by some of the financial acronyms that get thrown around?
Immigration from the south has long been a political football thrown around by both political parties.
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The word "tacky" gets thrown around a lot among posters on wedding website message boards.
The phrase "natural hair" is thrown around a lot, and it can mean different things to different people.
It's become au courant in the Valley to look askance at the valuation estimates being thrown around for Facebook.
United Tech had been one of the many names thrown around as a possible buyer for Schaffhausen, Switzerland-based Tyco International.
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These terms get thrown around so easily and it builds upon a foundation of fear that has already been instilled.
Four ears and two brains are much better when processing the large amount of information sometimes thrown around when discussing healthcare.
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Popular business axioms and management theories are thrown around in such cavalier fashion these days they can actually result in flawed decisioning.
The number that keeps getting thrown around by Republicans is that 47 percent of Americans do not pay any federal tax at all.
The numbers that were being thrown around by the SEC, were large for anyone looking for this prior to the summer of 2008.
No one likes to keep track of their time, particularly not professionals and there is a bit of gallows humor thrown around law firms.
So the number that I've heard thrown around is about 50 percent - not 85, but there's certainly some uncertainty about what that specific number is.
"Big hefty chunks of ice, the size of small houses, look as though they've been thrown around like rubble -- it's like an explosion, " he said.
Even a seemingly simple business-networking event, such as a baseball game where peanuts are thrown around the stadium, can be a challenge for an employee with food allergies.
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While the inflation hedge argument is thrown around, gold appears to be resilient both to inflation and deflation, suggesting it is acting more as a fear gauge.
Gross domestic product, foreign exchange reserves, current account surpluses - big numbers are thrown around daily as Asia tries to measure how bad the Crisis is and whether it is bottoming out.
Unable to stay on the coach's bench, he played for two more seasons, despite his 40-year-old body often breaking down under the onslaught of being thrown around the court with all of its owner's legendary enthusiasm.
To begin with we all felt that she'd been mugged or she'd been attacked or some such sort because she always carries a black bag with her and she'd got no black bag with her, and the contents of perhaps what would have been in her bag were all sort of thrown all around her body.
Gazprom has also raised hackles by the way it has thrown its weight around on oil and gas projects.
Some 1, 500 luxury high-rise apartments are being thrown up in or around the centre of town.
Lagarde said IMF needs more muscle to fight an EU crisis that keeps getting money thrown its way from around the world, and to very little avail.
In rich countries, around one tyre is thrown away per person per year.
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The concept piqued their interest and led to the formation of Back to the Roots, a business that has gone from farming mushrooms to selling mushroom-growing kits, all relying on used coffee that gets thrown out by 35 cafes in and around Berkeley.
Tables are arranged around pools and the rocks are thrown into stark, backlit relief.
The No. 1 ranking has been bounced around among four golfers since Woods abdicated his thrown in October, 2010 after a 281-week reign.
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Soccer is huge in Europe, and Football is huge in America, not just because every sports station is broadcasting it, but because everyone in Europe has kicked around a soccer ball and every American has thrown a football.
Look at all of that -- diaper packaging, electronic wrap, the plastic wrap from around paper towels -- all stuff that I have thrown in the trash at one point or another because I had no idea how to recycle it.
Virtue, the Islamic party formed when its predecessor, Welfare, was banned in 1998 after being thrown out of office, has spotted that with a European arm around its shoulder it might be better able to insist, for instance, that females should be allowed, despite current laws, to wear headscarves in state-run schools and government offices.
Artemis said its sailors practiced getting thrown into the water underneath a net, while their teammates jostled them around.
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