The Treasury plans to buy huge amounts of distressed debt using a reverse auction process, where banks offer to sell at a price and the government buys from the lowest price upwards.

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Even more exciting, large organic molecules can be exploited in a reverse process--converting light to electricity--with potentially far-reaching effects.

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Oftentimes the process to reverse such verdicts requires a motion for a new trial and years of legal wrangling.

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"The women in the market had destroyed their skin with all this kind of beauty products, bleaching products, and so I saw the need for assisting them to reverse the process because otherwise it would become a social problem, " she said.

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If prices fall, this process goes viciously into reverse, and a credit crunch can amplify the impact of falling prices.

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In the 1960s, realizing that only livestock could reverse desertification, I developed a consistently successful grazing planning process that mimics nature using livestock so that both carbon and water move from atmosphere to soil and soil life is more able to break down methane.

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In fact, the reverse is true: You prove a model by actually demonstrating that the process gives results consistent with the model.

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You would reverse the process when the market loved leverage and stocks were selling at a discount to book.

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In summer the reverse process takes place: The (comparatively) cool earth becomes a waste dump for unwanted heat that accumulates inside the house.

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When the time comes to reverse that process, your favorable credit rating in the past looks more like a curse than an advantage.

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