But an encouraging and dramatic two-day upside reversal from the downside break that threatened the first two days of the week.

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"There were some days I'd break it, like during two-a-days where you don't want to put your body in harm's way, " Aboushi said.

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The two sides had been working for several days to break an impasse and avoid a threatened contempt-of-Congress vote in the committee.

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Something was needed to break the humdrum of months of days with only two to three hours of sunlight and nothing to do but read really long sagas on Norse mythology while munching on salted seal flippers.

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