• Worrywarts abound in international finance circles--there's always nail-biting about this currency fluctuation or that account deficit.

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  • Stocks ended a nail-biting trading day just points away from a near five-year high.

    WSJ: Blue Chips Near a Five-Year High

  • Northampton regained the lead on 70 minutes through another Drahm penalty before the nail-biting finale.

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  • Bankers admitted to developing chronic pain, never-ending colds, anger management problems and nervous tics such as nail-biting.

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  • But the Scarlets crossed for two tries in as many minutes to set up a nail-biting finish.

    BBC: Cardiff Blues 19-15 Scarlets

  • And then begins the nail-biting time--the hours or days before you get in for a follow-up evaluation.

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  • Seven years later, Troon witnessed another nail-biting finale when Calcavecchia triumphed in the Open's first four-hole play-off.

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  • This is shaping up to be an even more nail-biting week for the chancellor than we already thought.

    BBC: Borrowing: is it up or is it down?

  • It was a nail-biting finish, with a narrow majority of judges actually favouring a ban (see article).

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  • He will stay with the long-running ITV soap until October, when his character is set for a nail-biting exit.

    BBC: Street star Jim to leave

  • Germany, however, had to endure a nail-biting finale after Helder Postiga pulled one back for Portugal after 87 minutes.

    CNN: Ballack steers Germany to Euro semifinals

  • The result is a game of nail-biting suspense, with the emphasis on patience and caution rather than violence and action.

    ECONOMIST: Computer games

  • Now with a 10-point gap to shield them, New Zealand surged forward and Wales had to endure two nail-biting TMO decisions in quick succession.

    BBC: Wales 12-19 New Zealand

  • Murray, whose service game was impeccable, held to clinch the first set and both players held serve in the second for a nail-biting tie-break.

    BBC: Murray maintains winning sequence

  • Surrey beat Lancashire by a single run in the semi-final 12 months ago and, from what Clarke says, Saturday's repeat fixture could also be nail-biting.

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  • The Englishman played a gruelling 30 holes in the weather-affected tournament, co-sanctioned by the European and Asian Tours, before prevailing after a nail-biting final day.

    CNN: Poulter claims one-stroke Singapore win

  • Like nail-biting and interrupting, this patterned, almost automatic behavior needs to be broken with a specific and proactive approach one that uses old-fashioned goals, motivating tactics, and rewards.

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  • Hard to find any nail-biting about a cold winter propping up already higher-than-normal gas prices at Energen Corp (nyse: EGN - news - people ).

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  • And as you saw with the nail-biting negotiations over the fiscal cliff, with the machinations over whether or not we would entertain default, that's what we've been doing.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • The chief judge grilled Sir Christopher about Mr Fok's timing, in particular whether the deal or the bonuses came first in the nail-biting two days of final talks that ended on 2 February 2000.

    BBC: NEWS | Business | Gent defends rival's 'sleazy' bonus

  • And he manages to hold his own in both the comedic scenes in Hollywood and the nail-biting sequences in Tehran as he attempts to exfiltrate six Americans hiding in the Canadian Embassy.

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  • Wales face Italy in the Millennium Stadium next and there will be some nail-biting as the players wait to see if they have done enough to keep the red shirt on their back.

    BBC: Fear drives Wales team forward

  • David Strettle was denied a moment of glory by a try-saving tackle by James Simpson-Daniel with just yards to spare before Nick Wood's yellow card ensured a nail-biting finish for the Kingsholm faithful.

    BBC: Gloucester 19-13 Saracens

  • Hamilton, who won his first world title in a nail-biting climax to Sunday's Brazilian Grand Prix, was welcomed at the McLaren Technology Centre by the team's 1, 000-strong workforce, plus another 500 ancillary staff.

    BBC: Hamilton in McLaren career pledge

  • The Dragon mission had some extra nail-biting moments.

    CNN: Elon Musk: Our future in space depends on reusable rockets

  • Giggs, who scored what proved to be the decisive penalty in the nail-biting shoot-out at the end of the match, finally overtook Charlton's long-standing record when he came off the bench for his 759th game for United.

    BBC: Jubilant Man Utd arrive back home

  • On a day when the experts were predicting a nail-biting classic, after an early Leeds assault, it ultimately proved to be a cakewalk for Wolves - and a rare victory for coach Tony Smith over his former club.

    BBC: Leeds 6-30 Warrington

  • Van Vleet scored 12 points as the Shockers (30-8) followed up last week's win over top-ranked Gonzaga with a nail-biting victory over the second-seeded Buckeyes (29-8), whose 11-game winning streak ended one game short of their second straight Final Four.

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  • So my question is: What is being done at the moment to prevent the kind of nail-biting that we saw last week with the very last-minute deal being brokered on the debt ceiling, given the magnitude, as you described it, of not raising it?

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • That said, the stats also perhaps indicate that disproportionately low spending on players' wages is probably not a sustainable strategy - since in the season just ended, as stress-wrecked Wolves fans will know, the club only avoided relegation by a whisker, on that nail-biting final match day.

    BBC: Is Wolves the UK's top football club?

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