Word: tapering
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...student, agreed, saying that he believes that “Obama is going to have to govern from the middle.” “I think a lot of liberals who are a little more left than they are to the center are going to have to taper their expectations,” he said...
...Core committee] has been very lenient in the last couple of years anyway because of the effort that’s been made to ensure that the Core doesn’t kind of taper down to nothing,” Kelly said in a phone interview from Italy, where he now is on leave...
...years. For now, though, there is more talk than action on the international front, so Asian governments are battling on their own. There are some early signs that anti-inflation measures could pay off. After peaking at a 12-year high in February, inflation in China will begin to taper off in coming months, economists are predicting. To cool down its overheating economy and help throttle price increases, Chinese officials employed a mix of policies that included limits on bank lending, a throwback to the country's command-economy days. Yet, despite these steps, the mainland's growth does...
...roll.” The final track, “Am I Only” is the only song in which originality extends past the introduction. A guitar progression that sounds like Dashboard Confessional in slow motion supports Haves’s and Been’s voices, which taper off into a closing falsetto over what sounds like a toy xylophone. BRMC is a good, wholesome rock band, but they can’t help being reminiscent of many more distinctive bands. They’re average, in the sense that “Baby 81” sounds...
...Volpe and Conroy looked calm and collected after an eight-mile run together yesterday afternoon. Both plan to taper down their mileage this week from the 20-mile runs they have done in the past few weeks...