With the easterlies persisting through much of next week too, the cold could well hang on until the bitter end of March.

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We are just the opposite of those who hurry to sell and book profits when companies perform well but who tenaciously hang on to businesses that disappoint.

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Yusuf admits furtively that, unbeknown to the local authorities, his sister, who came to Germany well before he did, has managed to hang on to her Turkish passport as well as to acquire a German one.

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The problem with this particular issue, however, is that industry and the City, as well as the media, hang on every utterance by every minister for signals about the government's intentions.

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Also, budget deficits got easy to finance in the absence of dollar convertibility, so you can hang their permanence on 1971 as well.

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In that time, as well as reassuring Estelle, Sandra told her to hang a pillow case on the door handle and another out of the window, so crews could tell which room she was in.

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If it is true, as the whispers in Ankara suggest, that a three-sided coalition led by Mr Ecevit might delay the election supposed to take place by April, and hang on to power beyond 1999, that concern may well deepen.

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He's a great quarterback, and to hang that label on him, he can't win the big one, well, until he does that label will be on him.

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In addition to the eight million people and 1.1 trillion dollars in direct mail, financial services, and related industries that are directly reliant on the Postal Service, the future of many small businesses and entrepreneurs hang in the balance as well.

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