We remain very much on track as regards our policy of drawing down our forces.
So it was customers waiting for the iPad mini and drawing down the third generation.
And one more thing: Drawing down our troops does not mean we are disengaging from Iraq.
We have been drawing down from the surge-force level already and will continue that process.
Banks pay for their additional coin and currency by drawing down their reserve deposits at the Fed.
We have continued to meet every deadline and every commitment in terms of drawing down our troops.
He says he pleaded with the United States to wait before drawing down troop levels to 50, 000.
Both counties are ahead of the schedule leading to 2012 in drawing down their stocks, he said.
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But, after eight months without a job, he's been drawing down his savings.
U.S. intelligence and military officers are also drawing down, and will be relying more on Afghan agencies and intelligence agents.
Nike is still in the process of drawing down excess inventory in China, and saw futures orders grow 6%.
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Casey also says the United States should continue to focus on drawing down the number of American forces in the country.
As the Americans were building up in Baghdad earlier this year, the British were drawing down from about 7, 100 to 5, 500 troops.
But as America plans to start drawing down its forces next year, the jostling for a political settlement is well under way.
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Yet the U.S. military appears to be doing the opposite, drawing down both its footprint and objectives south of the U.S. border.
There was a sense that perhaps the momentum was moving towards a position where U.S. troops could start drawing down in the fall.
And they sure as heck aren't doing enough to stabilize the housing market by drawing down principals and placing a moratorium on foreclosures.
But there will be about 100, 000 troops in the country and that's the point at which we're looking to start drawing down our forces.
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But the drawing down of principle isn't sustainable, and now there's a cash flow problem--money flowing into the Highway Trust Fund is projected to drop.
We are in now a phase of drawing down the surge forces as we begin the transition to Afghan security lead that will reach a culmination in 2014.
The United States has withdrawn a substantial number of troops and we are in the process of drawing down further as we hand over security lead to Afghan forces.
The result was that, as the Americans were building up in Iraq in 2007, the British were drawing down (ostensibly to give Iraqis space to find their own solutions).
As a reference point, the U.S. might use the standard of the British, who now seem chipper enough about troubled southern Iraq to begin drawing down their forces there.
This would enable the Bush administration to declare a kind of victory (for its latest strategy, if not for the war itself) and to begin drawing down the troop levels soon.
So what I laid out was a plan in which we are going to be drawing down our troops from Afghanistan after 10 very long years and an enormous sacrifice by our troops.
"When we start drawing down our forces in Iraq, it will (be) because our military commanders say the conditions on the ground are right, not because pollsters say it'll be good politics, " he said.
Under Obama, the United States is seeking to significantly reduce its presence in Iraq, drawing down troop numbers, in a move seen as an attempt to distance itself from the policies of former President George W. Bush.
President Barack Obama's plan calls for the U.S. to begin drawing down its 100, 000 troops in the country in July, but Mr. Obama and North Atlantic Treaty Organization commanders haven't specified the speed and extent of the pullout.
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At a Monday briefing, David Bauer, the group's senior vice president for government relations, noted that in reauthorizing the last round of highway spending, Congress opted against raising taxes in favor drawing down the Highway Trust Fund balance.
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