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In fact, the Fed had already adopted a neutral bias at its previous meeting, shifting from a bias toward tightening.
The Pan-Arab daily al-Quds al-Arabi said Thursday that Afghanistan's ruling militia, the Taliban, was tightening the noose around him but would not yield to U.S. pressure to hand him over or banish him to a third country.
I took another cut in pay to work for him [at $5,000 a month]--at a time where we're all tightening our belts."
The handedness of the initial double-strand helix is preserved throughout fiber morphogenesis suggesting that each cycle of supercoiling is a result of negative twist rather than simple over tightening of the previous helical form into a positive supercoil [ 5 ] .
The bond market, meanwhile, seemed so concerned about inflation that it felt as if the Fed was leaning toward tightening.