That helped add even more froth to share prices which the new year served to blow off.
In other words, a play easy enough to blow off without looking bad.
Diving back into part-time work soon after having Kylie was a better way to blow off steam, I'd told myself.
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In the past people were drinking because they were socially phobic or they needed to blow off steam at the end of the year.
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After hours of producing PowerPoint presentations for his job as a hospice-care salesman in Malden, Massachusetts, Sigurd Persson, 54, likes to blow off some steam.
We worked very hard to get to this point - over the course of seven weeks we probably only had one chance to blow off steam.
Amid the peaks, we do a flyby of an impossibly tiny landing platform, grazing the ground to blow off some powder, then circling back and setting down.
For the uninitiated, a "mancation" is a trip taken by a bunch of guy friends to blow off steam and remember why they are better off home with their families.
Ten years ago this week, Cavanaugh looked to blow off steam over the holiday weekend by taking two Jani-King employees and Colony Robinson, his 27-year old girlfriend, to the Caribbean.
For the athletes, the closing ceremony is traditionally a welcome chance to blow off the steam of the previous two weeks of dogged determination and competition at the highest level.
Weary and frustrated, John Franciosi needed to blow off steam late one Saturday night last December when he sauntered up to the craps table at the MGM Grand Casino in downtown Detroit.
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If any one company had a lot of steam to blow off today, not to mention a lot of new kit to unveil, it was Samsung. (Potentially) rounding out the barrage of Blu-ray players, printers, DVD recorders, and just about everything else we could imagine is a svelte new digicam that pulls double duty as a PMP.
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And when tough times inevitably come -- when war and economic hardship threaten to blow us off course -- we do what Americans have always done.
Maybe Clive Woodward trusts his men to be good enough to blow Scotland off the pitch with the kind of rugby they have been playing all season.
Officials shut down the race for nearly two hours after Juan Pablo Montoya careened into the back of a jet dryer that was being used to blow debris off the track during a caution flag.
To avoid an inflationary blow off, the monetary base might have to be reduced by a trillion dollars or more, essentially overnight.
It is hard to imagine that McChrystal's decision to open his doors to Rolling Stone was a calculated move to blow the lid off of the mirage of strategic competence surrounding the "good war" in Afghanistan.
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"A long free fall is more chance for my ears to come off or for the fur to blow in my face, " he explains.
The inquest heard how Mr Atherton was arrested for affray at a local club in 2008 and how months later, armed police were called to his house when he threatened to "blow his head off".
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The home side had received an attacking blow prior to kick-off when talismanic 22-goal striker Fernando Torres was ruled out with a knee injury.
If Warren Buffett called you up as the CFO and wanted to chat, do you blow him off?
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Oldham suffered a further blow when Pogliacomi had to go off after he injured himself in collecting a low cross.
Both firms have tried to soften the blow for those laid off.
If you starve yourself (either of food and small spending), you will be more likely to fall off the wagon and blow the budget on a whim.
The Dons suffered an injury blow when Gary McDonald had to go off 10 minutes before the interval with what appeared to be a hamstring injury.
Alcoa can still get earnings season off on the right or wrong foot, but the reality is even a disappointment is unlikely to be the blow that knocks the rally off its footing.
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Armagh then suffered a blow when John Toal had to be stretchered off with a knee injury.
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They suffered an early blow when Juliano Belletti limped off to be replaced by Florent Malouda after struggling following an early clash with Chaplow.
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