Similarly, if she is moving her torso away from you, or pointing it away from you, that may be a sign of closing down.

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When a hospital negotiates with, say, Aetna over the costs of its surgical procedures, that hospital negotiator can much more easily walk away from a deal if she is confident that her hospital has a long waitlist for elective surgical procedures, meaning that the other insurance companies in town will bring them plenty of business to remain at capacity.

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Would she really walk away from the altar if Will refused to commit a certain percentage of his fortune to her if the marriage fails in the first five years with increased sums at ten, fifteen and twenty?

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Away from singing, Stone once said she would have become a social worker if her showbiz career had not taken off.

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If Stevens loses, it will be as an Alaska patriot to the end, whereas if Sarah Palin finds herself on the winning ticket it will require her to have shifted her loyalty away from Alaska first.

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The law barred "humiliating and degrading treatment" if a head teacher decided against exclusion and settled for a less severe punishment of taking a pupil away from his or her peer group, she said.

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