That gives insufficient weight to the damage that Wall Street would have suffered anyway due to the crisis of investor confidence following the collapse of Enron, the accounting scandals and so forth.

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Collectively, they have far more weight than Fox, talk radio and The Wall Street Journal editorial page.

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Several Wall Street firms are throwing their weight into financial planning.

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If pressed to mark the change exactly, Mr Stella dates it to the moment when a museum wall could no longer take the weight of one of his increasingly turbulent reliefs.

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We envision a future where spindly robotic legs shudder under the weight of our grossly obese frames -- but maybe we've seen Wall-E too many times.

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Luda headed for the only empty seat, against the wall, squeezing her large body between the flimsy chairs that sagged under the weight of the E.

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"It's a pay by weight system and it's here to stay, " Samoa Air Chief Executive Chris Langton told The Wall Street Journal Wednesday.

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From Wall Street to Main Street, the most powerful men in the American private sector are throwing their weight around and pressuring Congress on the fiscal cliff.

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