Ironically, the value of such high-tech achievements might be laid low by down-to-earth political disputes between the allies.
The Fed did not even exist in 1908, which began with stocks laid low by the Panic of 1907.
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Ironically, these high-tech achievements might be laid low by down-to-earth political disputes over whether Japan would intercept a U.S.-bound missile.
The flu outbreak this winter season has laid low millions of Americans.
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But in the fourth quarter of 2008, these unsung heroes, too, were laid low by the scumbags on Wall Street and in Washington.
It was one of the lowest periods of his life and he laid low for weeks in his Huddersfield farmhouse before pulling himself together.
LBBW, which is half-decent, and Bankgesellschaft Berlin, which is in a terrible mess, having been laid low by a property scandal three years ago.
He was frail he avoided contact sports like rugby as a child and barroom pugilism as a grownup and he was frequently laid low by nervous attacks and illnesses.
We really laid low for a long period of time.
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And what of the Spanish government's supposedly bold plan to inject 19bn euros of new capital into Bankia, the country's largest pure retail bank, laid low by reckless property lending?
Milner, given his chance despite being laid low by illness in midweek, was off the pace and picked up a booking for fouling Steve Cherundolo before being replaced by Wright-Phillips on the half-hour.
The Irish must travel to Los Angeles to face reeling, cranky USC, the preseason No. 1 laid low after a loss to UCLA. Alabama must host reeling, angry Auburn, then face Georgia in the SEC championship.
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Having earned high praise for avoiding the financial whirlwind which tore through the region devastating many economies two years ago, Taiwan now risks incubating the kind of crony capitalism, influence peddling and misdirected financing that laid low its neighbours.
An E. coli O157:H7 outbreak that began at a fair in New York state in late August has laid low more than 1, 000 people, most of them because they drank contaminated water that was mixed with drinks or made into ice.
Now we have to pay the piper for treating our citizens in need properly, the ones who have always worked and paid their way and have been laid low by circumstances beyond their control and have further suffered because their fellow citizens now call them leeches and drains on society?
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Loring Knoblauch already had enough on his plate when prostate surgery laid him low for three weeks in April.
"He's had a sickness bug which had laid him low and I didn't see the point of exhausting him in a game like this, " said Adams.
In at least some respects, the company appears to be suffering from similar ailments to those that laid IBM low before Lou Gerstner was hired in 1993 to get it back on its feet.
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The other is Judy Lewent, who played a role in the hiring of Ed Zander, whose recent catastrophic reign as CEO of Motorola laid its mighty business low.
White House officials have set expectations low, even as they laid out a list of topics they planned to discuss, including trade, currency controls, human rights and Iran's nuclear program.
Weir got in on the act even by striding forward to lash a low shot wide after Danny Cadamarteri laid the ball back to him.
Although the profusion of temporary contracts has brought greater flexibility, it has laid the burden of adjustment disproportionately on the low-skilled, the young and immigrants.
The city centre's bars and restaurants, continuing the laid-back summer vein, are for the most part low key and dress code and doorman free, many offering up British Columbia's bounty of local wines and microbrews.
Sandy Baum, an economist at Skidmore College whose research laid the groundwork for the proposed rules, said the department's regulations set the bar very low but the judge had created an impossible threshold because "there is no one right measure, " she said.
Low rates of unemployment in the countries which have shifted furthest away from manufacturing suggest that most laid-off workers have found new jobs.
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