Eating other foods will cause Samantha to have nausea, vomiting, throat constriction, stomachaches, lethargy and bowel upsets.

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But it was as if some inner constriction had dissolved, some sense of her drifting gradually into unhappiness.

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Arup points to a sudden, rapid constriction in oil supply as the resource becomes more expensive and difficult to extract, coupled with rising demand.

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If the cycle of falling asset prices, insolvency and credit constriction is excessive, the government may have to step in and buy up bad assets en masse, as has often occurred in other financial meltdowns (see article).

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The President is taking steps to do what we can to develop programs to ensure, as he has, that small businesses are getting access to capital that they might need that they see restricted as a result of the constriction in capital and credit available.

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This lending constriction worsens a eurozone recession, which in turn exacerbates the weakness of banks: a financing or liquidity crisis morphs into a solvency crisis, as has already happened in Spain and looks set to happen in Italy (yesterday's refinancing of Italy's Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena augurs ill).

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