The bill was off and on all week with, at week's end, only a watered-down version surviving.

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In the other camp are those expecting the Fed to provide only a watered-down version of quantitative easing.

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But the government programme launched last week offered only vague and watered-down versions of these plans.

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On Wednesday, the gathered leaders backed an American plan to spread democracy and economic reform across the Middle East and North Africa, but only in a watered-down form.

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So not only were they successful in having implementation of the watered-down Dodd-Frank regulations delayed, there are plans in Congress to attempt to repeal all or part of it after the elections.

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Indeed, the only BBA likely to make it through the legislative process and be sent to the states almost certainly will be so watered down that it would become a positive fiscal endangerment itself, setting the stage for future Congresses to balance the budget up with higher taxes.

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