• The mop-up, time and the environment's resilience have restored the sound to its former glory--superficially, at least.

    FORBES: Good as New, Almost

  • Yet this is all mop-up work.

    ECONOMIST: The dizziest, giddiest stars

  • The oil, gas and petrochemicals sector employs only 120, 000 workers, and is hardly going to mop up the job-seekers.

    ECONOMIST: Stunted and distorted | The

  • It will be down to the big City institutions to mop up all the so-called lapsed shares.

    BBC: Deadline looms for BT shareholders

  • And chocolate, particularly dark chocolate, does contain antioxidants which can help to mop up harmful free radicals - unstable chemicals that can damage our cells.

    BBC: Chocolate 'may help keep people slim'

  • Since 2004 the Fed has raised short-term interest rates in numerous baby steps, but--and this is key--it has failed to mop up the excess money it created.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Since 2004 the Fed has raised short-term interest rates in numerous baby steps, but--and this is key-- it has failed to mop up the excess money it created.

    FORBES: Unindicted Blunderer

  • But then, somehow, it is graduation and that whole flock of chickens come home to roost and the industry I cover, the collections industry has to mop up the defaults and past-dues.

    FORBES: Credit Card Companies Want Your Kids. A Lot.

  • It is thought that several cancer types are associated with infections, and a weakened immune system - such as that found in a HIV patient - is less able to mop these up.

    BBC: HIV patients at risk of cancer

  • These then morphed into "banks for bankers" - clearing houses which would mop up liquidity among the middle and upper classes and spread it through the private banking system (in the lobby of the Bank of England there is a nice painting of the English bourgeoisie queuing up at Threadneedle Street on Dividend Day by George Elgar Hicks).

    BBC: Central banks are part of the state

  • BJP-led coalition, and then mop up the fragments.

    ECONOMIST: India

  • She might have been willing to pursue it, but the inspector told her that to make coffee, she would need to install a three-basin stainless steel wash-up sink plus a separate mop sink in her store, and she decided that coffee would have to wait.

    FORBES: When Julia Tried to Start a Business

  • If the Fed truly wants to tighten, there's an easy, time-tested way to do it: sell bonds from its portfolio to mop up the excess money it's mistakenly spilled onto the financial markets for the past 18 months.

    FORBES: Fact and Comment

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