The road builders association, 105 years old and headquartered just off the main drag in Georgetown--the residence for many if the capital's power brokers--has 40 employees in Washington, 5, 000 corporate and public sector members, and a fierce ability to set an agenda.
And that has an uncertain effect on returns--it's obviously very helpful in bad markets and is a drag in good markets--but the beauty of it is that it reduces your impulsive behavior.
In rich countries, competition from millions of new, low-skilled workers has acted as a drag on wages for less-skilled ones in advanced economies.
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At "Kinky Boots, " the dancing is done by factory workers, who would be out of character breaking into fancy footwork, and drag queens in six-inch stilettos, which aren't designed for pirouettes.
One of the best scenes is toward the end when a self-loathing Miles returns to the stage in full-on drag.
Indeed, he says, the TNT investigators had knock-down drag-out fights about exactly what should go in their endpoint--some researchers wanted to include stroke, some didn't.
Just as the trouble in America's housing market is a drag on the economy, the turmoil in the subprime-mortgage market weighs on the currency.
Case in point: if ever you use the VivoTab dock's built-in USB port, you'll be glad to drag and drop folders in Explorer, just like you're used to.
He went so far as to claim that some elements in the Brotherhood were seeking to drag Jordan into a situation similar to that in Nahr al-Bared, a Palestinian refugee camp in north Lebanon where the Lebanese army has been battling with heavily armed Islamist infiltrators for more than two months.
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The slowdown of 2008-09 had a considerable drag in volume levels, leading to a record decline in the railroad freight revenues.
The sub-label will feature a couple of established acts, including rapper Drag-On, and will primarily focus on scouting and signing emerging talent in the hip-hop world and beyond.
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This 104, 000-circulation daily has lost 27, 000 subscribers in the past six years and was a drag on Knight-Ridders earnings growth.
The contemporary drag show features top Indigenous drag queens, musicians and award-winning filmmakers in an eclectic, theatrical performance.
It is a track with plenty of long straights and everyone will be looking to run a car with minimum drag -- much like at Monza -- in order to eek out the best top speed.
During hundreds of camping trips and meetings and service projects and weird and wonderful events such as the Klondike Derby (a cold-weather competition in which scouts drag makeshift sleds over frozen ground for hours), I learned how to adapt to changing circumstances on the fly while keeping the main goals in sight.
Unfortunately, because of the nature of air circulation, any downward-pointing force created aerodynamically generates a backward-pointing resistance in the process just as an increase in the lift of an aircraft wing as the flaps are lowered for take-off or landing creates more drag in the process, forcing the pilot to open the engine throttles to overcome the extra wind resistance.
Big institutions, however, are increasingly inclined to invest directly, saving the double-whammy in fees which helps to drag down net performance.
Lack of access to water and sanitation is a major drag on economic growth and costs countries in sub-Saharan Africa around 5% of their GDP each year.
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"Rather than air being sucked into the radiators, the air is going straight over to the exhaust -- this benefits in terms of lower drag, " explains Scarborough.
In both the classic 1933 movie King Kong and its 2005 remake, the King of the Apes gets in a knock-down, drag-out brawl with the King of the Dinosaurs.
Some economists reckon the Asia-inspired trade drag will subtract up to 2.5 percentage points from second-quarter growth and will be in evidence well beyond that, as it usually takes six to nine months for trade flows to respond fully to economic changes.
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Francos Wine Merchants, a family-owned business on Elm Street, the main drag in New Canaan, Conn.
Beyond that, you can drag-and-drop videos from various sites into a playlist in any order and watch it on your screen of choice.
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But you also get an epic, over-the-top story about the mysterious Stick of Truth, a fully-fledged turn-based RPG system, and Kenny dressed in drag.
"The Fed will drag rates down everywhere just by holding the short-term rate lower in the U.S., " says Dan Dektar, chief investment officer at Smith Breeden Associates in Durham, N.
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Only the knock-down-drag-out fight that ends the second act fails to register, in part because Rob Howell's distractingly spectacular deco-modern set isn't cluttered enough to let Elyot and Amanda whip up a sufficiently chaotic mess.
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Rising energy prices are putting pressure on American wholesalers to try to raise prices, data for May showed Tuesday, but with the housing market mired in post- subprime doldrums and creating a drag on the overall economy, it will be increasingly difficult to make them stick.
"We're a bond in drag, " laughs Garry Ridge, the stocky 42-year-old chief executive, a onetime traveling salesman from Australia.
Reduced government spending and layoffs of government employees have been a drag on employment data, partially offsetting some of the gains in private-sector payrolls.
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