The A2B had a low step-over frame and was easy to handle on the road.

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In its August policy statement the Federal Reserve took the highly unusual step of putting a specific time frame for the continuation of its near zero interest rate policy.

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An adviser to Japanese Prime Minister Abe said a statement between the BOJ and the government on fighting deflation was a step forward but wasn't enough because it didn't set a time frame.

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If you take a step back and look at the SPY chart on a daily and even weekly time frame, the obvious pattern that jumps out at you is a wide, but well-defined, bear flag.

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Mr. Bernanke said to Congress on Wednesday that an early pullback on bond buying could stall the recovery but that the Fed could "take a step down" from the purchases within the time frame of the next few policy-setting meetings if economic data support that path.

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Every piece of visual information is presented head-on, with empty spaces at the side of the frame where, you can be certain, a character will soon step in and start blathering on in the kind of halting cadences usually reserved for small-town dinner theater.

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Meanwhile, Wickr takes it a step further, enabling you to send encrypted messages and photos and choose the time frame in which these communications can be viewed.

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