Of course, the U.S. with its dollar hegemony, started this whole round with looseness at the Federal Reserve.

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Coupled with the extraordinary looseness of American policy, the weak dollar has also revived fears of a currency crash.

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Ford saw Jews not only as financiers (damnable in itself) but as carriers of the virus of modernity jazz, flappers, moral looseness.

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At the same time, Fed looseness has caused headaches for countries, such as many Gulf states, that peg their currencies to the dollar.

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He denied that the looseness of the rules meant, effectively, none may be punished - pointing out two MPs, Elliot Morley and David Chaytor, had already been suspended from the Parliamentary Labour Party.

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The level of the index reflects the looseness of financial conditions: an increase in interest rates or the exchange rate leads to a tightening, a rise in share prices to a loosening.

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The BBC Trust said it did not believe the BBC had intentionally misled its audience, but the problem was "essentially one of a lack of clarity" and the result of a "looseness of language".

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Bassist Steve Swallow appears along with the famously dynamic drummer Barry Altschul, whose metric looseness shadows of rhythm that land on and around the pulse draws comparison to the Bley drummer who recorded the tune first, Paul Motian.

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And they performed a "WIGGLE" test. (I know you will find this hard to believe, but that is NOT an acronym for Wire Integration Gross Gyration Looseness Exam -- it's just a plain old wiggle test.) In any case, the wires all checked out -- and on went the flow toward a January 19 launch.

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