• Future contracts are meant to be used as hedges, which means they are being bought and sold by people with intimate information about the product.

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  • Strong words indeed, and ones that are sure to be used as a motivational tool in the Welsh dressing room.

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  • Oodle already includes eBay listings, but Craigslist founder Craig Newmark has told Craig Donato to steer clear of his site's listings, saying they are not meant to be used as commodities for commercial purposes.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • We are seeing what used to be, as we noted earlier, the Mecca for manufacturing, and that is this country turned out almost everything to a degree that there was world dominance, and over the decades, we have seen that shift and change, yet we haven't seen America change with that shift.

    NPR: U.S. Factory Workers Competing in a Global Market

  • Discharge delays and infections immediately following surgeries are both half as frequent as they used to be.

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  • Another debate currently raging in the console market is if graphics are even still as important as they used to be.

    FORBES: AMD Claims the Next Xbox Can Render Avatar-like Graphics

  • The boards, made by Beachbeat in St Agnes, are able to be used if the owner wants, but as they are now believed to be the most expensive surfboards in the world, it is likely they may not be splashed with sea water.

    BBC: Buyers splash out on Hirst boards

  • Many new funds that have launched in the past 10 years are high-cost products that are designed for speculation and to be used as part of a trading strategy.

    FORBES: Educating a Nation of Financial Illiterates

  • Rather, they are designed to be used by unelected regulators as scientific cover for what our legislature refuses to do, which is to enact expensive and intrusive restrictions on emissions of carbon dioxide.

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  • The counter shop lives on, seemingly now mainly run in Britain by enterprising Indians and Pakistanis who have found a gap in the market and are every bit as polite as the assistants who used to be behind Sainsbury's marble counters.

    ECONOMIST: Lord Sainsbury

  • It is right for the government to keep a watch on colleges and universities to ensure that they are not being used as conduits for workers pretending to be students.

    ECONOMIST: British universities

  • On the plus side, however, Kenyans are no longer as scared of their rulers as they used to be.

    ECONOMIST: If only the president were more vigorous

  • Record stores are no longer as relevant to music listeners as they used to be, which is evidenced by the closing of the iconic Tower Records in Hollywood in 2006.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Texas and Ohio are blue collar states that used to be seen as sure wins for Hilary Clinton.

    NPR: Day of Reckoning Ahead for Clinton, Obama

  • Pew surveys of general knowledge suggest that young people are about as well (or badly) informed as they used to be.

    ECONOMIST: Media

  • The effects of water and ice, too, are likely to be intermittent, and to trail off a bit as the reserves on top of the mountain are used up.

    ECONOMIST: Volcanoes and air travel: Small eruption in Iceland | The

  • Things are not as bad as they used to be: it took a century for Australia's states to adopt the same railway gauge, and the rules for road haulage have only fairly recently been unified.

    ECONOMIST: The limits to growth

  • Even those jobs that demand physical labor -- manufacturing, for example -- are much less grueling than they used to be, as electrically powered machines do the lifting and shifting that used to consume human energy.

    CNN: Why we're getting fatter -- and what to do about it

  • Analysts say that fishing boats are of particular importance to pirates because they can be used as floating bases from which to launch further attacks.

    CNN: Seychelles' gunboats keep pirates from 'blue gold'

  • To be sure, increasingly capacious chemistry and materials are used to improve the capabilities of batteries such as switching from carbon-based anodes to silicon-based ones.

    FORBES: Tesla Debacle Highlights Need For New EV Battery Technology

  • Two of the four S-92 helicopters to be used in the contract are at Inverness Airport as part of the training of crews for the coastguard work.

    BBC: 'Latest technology' for new coastguard helicopters

  • Above all, the laws are not meant to be regularly enforced as much as used to put those in opposition in a state of continuous theoretical legal jeopardy.

    ECONOMIST: Russian politics

  • Today, for drugs such as these that are to be used chronically, sponsors are required to show that their new medicine actually improves the long-term health of a patient.

    FORBES: Why David Healy Is Wrong About the Safety of New Medicines

  • Credit scores, they complained, are just being used as a proxy for ethnic background--and will be used to justify charging higher prices to minority customers or refusing their business altogether.

    FORBES: Proxy Fight

  • The report offers this as a definition to be used when the police and local authorities are logging reports of alleged racist incidents, either as a prelude to investigating them or to collect statistics on the incidence of racism.

    ECONOMIST: Debating Lawrence | The

  • He will also speak about social networking sites and how they are used to target young people as victims of potential abuse, but also how they can be used by professionals as a means of educating.

    BBC: Children at risk of web predators

  • They would actually have to be advised that they are under no obligation to speak to interrogators, that if they do speak their statements can be used against them as evidence in court, and that they are entitled to have a lawyer - paid for by the American people - present and assisting them at all times during questioning.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: A war to the death

  • There is nothing to suggest that the developers of these tools had any direct connection to these intrusions, as the tools are widely available on the Chinese web forums and tend to be used extensively by Chinese hacker groups.

    FORBES: Night Dragon Attacks Target Technology in Energy Industry

  • "The top shows are not concentrated on Thursday nights as they used to be, " says David Poltrack, chief research officer at CBS Corp.

    WSJ: No Longer 'Must-See TV'

  • Are those skills really as important as they used to be?

    BBC: Teacher training comes under fire

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