"I saw this old fellow whittling, and I set out to accomplish it, " he says.
Commercials hiked gross longs and cut gross shorts and whittling down their net-short position.
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"We had great difficulty in whittling down the longlist to the Booker Six, " he said.
Even without higher yields, firms' more generous contributions should start whittling away at pension deficits.
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Industry-government efforts are whittling away at subtle threats, often to ground operations, that previously garnered less attention.
There are some indications that, even now, further whittling away may take place on the U.S.-U.K. draft resolution.
Seattle is free to continue whittling away at the yellow mountain of paper.
By whittling down manufacturing expenses, Jones was able to learn for the first time what a project really cost.
Whittling down the field may make this year's contentious GOP primaries seem tame.
But now, because of the whittling by Congress, the "energy" bill seems to be more of an "oil independence" bill.
Kapoor of Constantine Cannon said lower courts have already been whittling away at the looser standards the justices cited in their dissent.
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When not on the clock, Karkare was known to enjoy sculpting and could often be found whittling driftwood, The Indian Express reported.
So whittling back the credit is an important element in overall reform.
But whittling down the 7 billion people on the planet to a definitive list of 70 is slippery business, to say the least.
Lending Club and Prosper vet thousands of loan applications, whittling down the pool to only those borrowers the company deems least likely to default.
She's been whittling away at that concept for well over a decade, singing more and more in her native Spanish as her career progresses.
Yahoo reported its quarterly earnings on Jan. 26, and the takeaway was that executives seem to be whittling down a once-bloated organizational structure.
Fourth-quarter earnings season has shown most companies are still laser-focused on whittling down costs to wring every ounce of profit from sluggish, or nonexistent, revenue growth.
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Western Kentucky started whittling into the lead in the closing minutes, and a 3-pointer by Crook made it 59-55 with 25.4 seconds left on the clock.
In the wake of debt-driven financial crises, households and businesses typically spend years whittling down debts, and are much less sensitive to the lure of lower interest rates.
He and his partners went about whittling the company down by shuttering unprofitable lines such as scanners and digital kiosks and cutting the work force by some 20% to 2, 850.
The Jean Coutu Group is the largest shareholder in Rite Aid, which purchased Coutu Group's U.S. subsidiary in 2007, but has been whittling down its holding in the U.S. drugstore chain.
As ominous as this may sound, the continued litigation is slowly whittling away whatever assets Countrywide has left to the point in which the company could be sent off into bankruptcy purgatory.
Rising home prices, the whittling down of vacant housing across the nation, coupled with dropping unemployment rates, will prompt shoppers to spend mightily on home goods in 2013, according to the report.
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Fitch Credit Ratings estimates that this is whittling coal sales by about 63 million tons per year, equivalent to 6% of 2010 consumption, with new EPA regulations further reducing sales by another 5%.
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The pair scoured thousands of images before whittling the book down to a selection of 65 images taken by 38 photographers of 46 couples from the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Italy.
There's just been whittling away at traditional alliances to get the black community to turn its back on the gay community, creating sort of a sibling rivalry over oppressions and who deserves what and who deserves what right.
You will not find much in the way of services but as you wander through the very narrow, cobbled alleyways you will happen upon women baking bread in outdoor, communal ovens, men whittling on doorsteps and neighbours gossiping in their distinctive dialect.
And, in a day and age when recruiters are more than likely to get slammed with inquiries from tons of eager and super-hungry job seekers, whittling it down to those who are the most likely prospects can be a challenge.
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