If tariffs do bite, flighty firms can always move elsewhere.
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My mother was pretty and flighty, her friend less so.
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However, a flighty labor force isn't the only worry for restaurants.
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Working at a company for less than a year looks flighty.
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Flighty Canada marks its 150th anniversary as a nation next year.
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Millennials take a lot of shit for being apathetic, flighty narcissists.
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Mr. Spears, again surprising me, gives Mary curiously agitated and flighty music.
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As a presidential nominee, Trump would likely continue to be flighty and capricious.
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Does that sound too flighty, too lofty, too ridiculously up-its-own-arse?
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Raising the pitifully low savings rate would reduce Turkey's reliance on flighty foreigners.
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Quiet music may be the distraction a flighty person needs to keep focusing.
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Weighing up to 4kg, it is the world's fattest and least flighty parrot.
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A provocateur like Mr. Trump will trigger strong opinions, but opinions are flighty.
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The produce we look forward to most as the harbingers of springtime are equally flighty.
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EKA KURNIAWAN'S hugely inventive fiction is a potent blend of grounded realism and flighty fantasy.
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I don't like the flighty nature but when you're a dreamer that's part of it.
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That will encourage Lending Club and others to turn back towards less flighty retail investors.
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Lois Lane was both a competent, ambitious journalist and a slightly flighty damsel in distress.
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The first definition of "gig," meaning a "flighty girl," goes back to the 13th century.
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Another tried and true strategy for hooking the jittery and flighty attention of sugary cereal consumers?
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They had low capital levels, depended on flighty funding, and had heavy exposure to risky debt.
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But Mr Trump's absence and the volatility of his foreign policy make America seem a flighty ally.
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Weighty works of history and flighty romance novels can often be seen in the same subway car.
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Foreign-exchange reserves, say, are slim relative to the scale of local-currency assets held by flighty investors.
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Pisces are known as flighty dreamers who struggle to meet deadlines and professional obligations — including, presumably, rent payments.
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London producer, Rival Consoles, has shared the gorgeously flighty second single from his forthcoming mini-album Night Melody.
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Makeup lovers are a flighty species, enthralled by millennial pink one day and grungy black-plum the next.
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Find out why she has "flighty" issues with her hair and why it's all about the J.Lo glow.
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Compared with Germany or Spain, a relatively low share of public debt—a third—is held by flighty foreigners.
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This isn't Jessa being flighty or Hannah being self-absorbed, and this isn't a fight at the beach house.
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Still, bond markets are a bit less flighty than stocks, and also more closely tied to the economic outlook.
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It's easy to imagine a universe where Trump came out looking flighty and Fox News came out looking responsible.
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This is worrying, as it leaves Turkey dependent on flighty foreign lenders and investors to cover its import bill.
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Perhaps, in addition to maintaining a personal relationship, you're concerned about being pegged professionally as a flighty, flaky youngster.
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That tale, unlike the modern shell into which it's been nestled, is deliberately flighty (if you'll excuse the pun).
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The apartment complex in South Dakota, with its cast of grouchy, flighty residents, feels like it's stuck in another decade.
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When it comes to love and marriage, female purple-crowned fairy-wrens (Malurus coronatus) are more than a little flighty.
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While her character is the most flighty, she seems to be in some ways the worldliest of the Girls cast.
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Horton agrees to sit on an egg while Mayzie the bird, a flighty mother, takes a vacation to Palm Beach.
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When he breaks up with the sexy, flighty Rhonda (Kate Nash), he's shocked to learn that she actually liked him.
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Ryan Murphy's first series for the streaming platform has the acid humor of "Glee," but also the flighty attention span.
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Kellie Overbey is formidable as the starchy Miss Connor and Kate Middleton provides bitter comic relief as the flighty Miss Ridgeway.
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We calculate capability with pre-populated keywords and/or gaps in a resume, and regard job seekers as flighty or broken.
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In large part, it has to do with a flighty, self-absorbed mother who left when Sophia was 12 years old.
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But even if the big social apps get into soundtracks, they might feel too bloated and complex for flighty teen fingers.
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" [gallery ids="1705546,1705559,1705547"] Young, flighty, commitment-averse millennials are the prime demographic, he noted: "Millennials are the biggest consumer of leases.
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The soprano Susanna Phillips brought touching vulnerability to the role of Birdie, Oscar's flighty wife, who frets and drinks too much.
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As his and Ruth's love-hate flirtation simmers, Sam briefly shacks up with the beautiful, flighty wrestler Rhonda Richardson (Kate Nash).
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The base of dedicated investors, including domestics, is too easily overwhelmed by the volume of the more flighty cross-over funds.
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In both shows, many of Horn's works also point in the direction of the flighty intensity of birds and other animals.
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I'm flighty but I'm not dropping 20 g's bc someone on Twitter said they heard a thing might be a thing.
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The choice feels oddly random, flighty, as does Bourgeois's voice moving in and out of her life from childhood to old age.
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How does he feel that his most notable foray into public recognition, thus far, is via the flighty medium of internet memes?
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It's plush song that builds slowly, her crystalline vocals deftly layered, swelling to the broken flighty beats at the one minute mark.
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Like the man himself, flighty and busy, Mr. West showed up for a few minutes via an onscreen avatar on Friday night.
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Suddenly, here is the missing woman herself, briskly returning from a round of grocery shopping with Anne's flighty sister, Élise (Lisa O'Hare).
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Zosia Mamet's obsessive, flighty Shoshanna ran away to Japan, where she immersed herself in the culture while taking it entirely for granted.
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And when he's asked why he's so committed to his seemingly flighty wife, Laura (Golshifteh Farahani), he says that she just understands him.
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Whether the end result resembles funk hardly matters; fluid rhythms and strong riffs enliven what might otherwise dissolve into a flighty ineffectual puddle.
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Is this simply a case of Westerners distastefully exploiting the traditions of another culture for the sake of their own flighty party experience?
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Targeting less flighty corporate clients and longer-term asset managers may also muffle some of the noise, though that will take time, too.
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Cramer argued that Apple's moves perfectly captured how flighty investors have become as they struggle to keep their conviction intact in this volatile market.
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The show portrays the now 32-year-old character to be flighty and irresponsible, not just romantically (we've seen that before), but also professionally.
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But by the end of "The Flirtbot's Condition," a friendly chat with some barflies seems to temporarily ground Thom in an otherwise flighty world.
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Her other mistakes involve sleeping with a married man (see below) and continually having drawn-out relationships with flighty guys who continuously hurt her.
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Maybe this is why print is dying; because everyone stops work to locate flighty 26-year-olds who quit without giving two weeks notice.
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Thirteen years in, the January show was a flighty grab bag, with one scene that thrilled, a couple that tickled, two others that floundered.
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There are Paul Motian's flighty cymbals, which leave enough space to be airy but not arid; and the saxophonist Joe Lovano's gasping, guttural tones.
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I was flighty and panicked when I walked into the tax preparer, but the woman who looked over my return was calm and kind.
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Touchy about being caricatured as a flighty tycoon, Mr. Bloomberg bristled at any implication that he was flirting with a run for the attention.
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Away from its natural habitats, this capital is quite flighty; and it will likely continue to reverse direction for at least a few months.
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Scott's younger rival—a flighty, narcissistic singer named Tatyana Bakst—might remind viewers of one or two headline-grabbing Russian sopranos of the hour.
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Bangi was too flighty to be helpful, and with no conventional HR or clear hierarchy, there was nowhere to turn when managers crossed the line.
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So despite a flighty history for gesture interfaces on mobile, a bunch of hardware experiments look to be in play, such as whatever LG's cooking.
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His team now seems to have hit upon a larger narrative arc about Rubio as a flighty lightweight that at least sort of makes sense.
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The flighty beast was then taken to a safe place and police contacted the RSPCA to help trace the owner, according to the The Telegraph.
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Sagittarius is a fire sign known for its flighty nature, while earthy Capricorn is all about stability, and these traits will both come into play.
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Later, a rant-cum-confessional positions Earn—the confessor—as a tragic hero, a defeated man still fighting to manifest the flighty dreams in his heart.
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In "Coming Down." lust is love by another name—dependent and flighty and unhealthy, in true Weeknd fashion, but a sort of love, all the same.
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"As a libra sun, i am flattered yet horrified that facebook would name its cryptocurrency after the most flighty, fiscally irresponsible of the signs!" tweeted Em Gibson.
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His brother-in-law Tobias is still homeless and jobless, foraging for food and shelter with a couple of flighty actors, one of whom is his son.
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At first, the two don't get along—she doesn't like jazz, and he thinks she's just another flighty actress—but their flirtatious bond develops into something deeper.
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Trump's version of the madman theory is quite the opposite: being unpredictable because he can't control the various factions in your government and has a flighty temperament.
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"Pronghorns by nature are a flighty species and can become stressed very easily," Jeff Holland, curator of mammals at the Los Angeles Zoo, said in a release.
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Cramer, host of "Mad Money," argued that Apple's moves perfectly captured how flighty investors have become as they struggle to keep their conviction intact in this volatile market.
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The following month Northern Rock, a British mortgage lender that had funded its rapid expansion in the flighty wholesale markets, asked the Bank of England for liquidity support.
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Markets being flighty and unpredictable, it should be no surprise if many of these companies rise 10 percent by Christmas---or decline further if trade-war concerns deepen.
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But if you try to turn this one into a relationship there will likely be too much arguing: your lighthearted social flighty nature would likely enrage this one.
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Senna might be flighty, but she is always grounded by Ms. Stone, who understands that this is a character that ought to be sold through presence, not performance.
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Mr. Sirota is meticulous, mathematical and alphabetizes everything; she was a "flighty artist," she said, who was mystified by physics and had never alphabetized anything in her life.
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Her matter-of-fact, slightly cheeky personality often grounded Kathleen's flighty optimism, but for Burns, it just meant she got to spend her days hanging out with Meg Ryan.
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But when I open my eyes, the spectacle of pictographic clichés turns tedious and tepid: my flighty feelings and contemplations are washed away in a stream of digital decoration.
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The crisis of 2008-09, when oil prices fell and the world economy stagnated, revealed that the Russian economy was dependent on flighty foreign hedge funds and retail investors.
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Ailyn Pérez, an American soprano who previously sang the flighty Musetta in this production, proved a worthy foil as the ailing Mimi, effectively veering between vulnerability and surging strength.
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But in the case of the Dreamers, Iran, and Obamacare, he kicked the issues to a flighty and inept Congress, which is now tasked with resolving these problems quickly.
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After the crisis, banks had to increase their capital levels, which means they have to get more of their financing from shareholders, not potentially flighty creditors, like repo lenders.
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Joan Aiken, in five companion novels to Jane Austen's works (she also completed the Austen fragment "The Watsons"), never tells who the flighty Miss Smith had for a mother.
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Beth is fiercely protective of herself and her clone sisters, ensuring that the smart and flighty Cosima gets tuition, and that the strict and chirpy Alison learns about gun safety.
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Here as in her previous works, Carson's words further derive a poetry-like quality from their sensation of flighty nearness: Something profound is glimpsed, intuited in her lines...but what?
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There might be fights about her flighty flirtatious Sag nature, but a Taurus who can give her the grounding she craves will make a ride or die out of Nicki.
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That means Tencent is exposed to flighty Chinese investors, who tend to be quicker than most to buy and sell, making the good times richer — and the bad times poorer.
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Flighty Erasmus plans parties to help Bill make friends, while duty-bound Paul takes over mundane tasks like packing lunches and driving the boy to his Santa Fe elementary school.
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You know bats—the flighty mammals that find their way around with sonar and eat bugs and sometimes revert to their human form and live in a castle on a hill.
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Don't: Leave the city Conventional survival logic points to now as being the best to head off to the countryside; but you, brave zombie-to-be, must fight that flighty urge.
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The word comes from the same linguistic root as the verbs to blow, to rise and to fall, suggesting the transient, fickle and flighty nature of love in its early phases.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain has become increasingly reliant since the 2016 Brexit referendum on "flighty" foreign funding that could be withdrawn at short notice, a Bank of England official said on Tuesday.
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And Margot's vulnerability is able to land because she feels so much like the kind of flighty but basically decent 20-year-old girls who fill college campuses across the country.
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But I had a sex life with my live-in boyfriend and a flighty relationship to Loestrin, I hadn't had a period in over a month, and I was constantly nauseated.
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It's not studying for a test like a flighty college student that is keeping her away, it's the demands of her emotionally intense job as a counselor at a grief center.
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Finally, the creation of more dedicated infrastructure lenders, financed with deposits from commercial banks and other long-term sources, would keep state banks from funding long-term projects with flighty deposits.
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They end up crashing on the couch of Marianne (Jae Suh Park), a flighty, free-spirited actress, and catching up on their old friendships, which have become more competitive and complicated.
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When we refuse to walk away from the flighty ideas of people we don't think should have them, we can get to the root of their cause, for better or for worse.
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Sandwiched between the more solemn and substantial Georgian and Victorian eras, it has always felt like a transition, so flighty it is unable even to muster a proper monarch as its namesake.
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Even worse, the hiding place that Scott finds to avoid being stalked and slandered by the media belongs to a flighty left-wing heiress who mostly sees him as a collector's item.
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Tig ends up extending her visit as she deals with her mother's estate, confronts buried issues from her past and manages a long-distance relationship with her flighty girlfriend, Brooke (Casey Wilson).
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Brought to a second convent run by a flighty libertine abbess (Liselotte Pulver, who played a bombshell secretary in Billy Wilder's 1961 comedy "One, Two, Three"), Suzanne experiences another sort of torment.
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We're going to ignore them and say that you need to override the flighty, panicked, ghosty impulse and try not to vanish on someone with whom you've shared good and respectful times.
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Northanger Abbey is fond of silly, flighty Catherine Morland, its heroine, and of patronizing Henry Tilney, its hero, but it isn't about to let its fondness get in the way of mocking them.
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Liquidity cushion (mostly cash items and inter-bank placements) was equal to a modest 15% of retail deposits at end-3Q13, which are price-sensitive and could be flighty at times of stress.
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Daisy in The Great Gatsby is flighty, fickle, and status-obsessed; Jenny in An Education gives up her Oxford dreams for a boy; Netflix series Collateral's Kip grapples with her own complicated past.
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The character seems a bit flighty and unsophisticated for a 30-year-old — if Sonia weren't a woman, she would earn the dreaded "man-child" label — but the script has plenty of wit.
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Some 72 percent of its balance sheet of 992 billion euros was funded by capital providers such as retail depositors, who are likely to be the least flighty, as of the end of June.
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Drifting into an affair with a flighty teenager, Elena (Daisy Granados), Sergio equates her lack of education with Cuba's underdevelopment, taking her to museums that, in a particularly sardonic sequence, include Ernest Hemingway's villa.
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Over hours and hours of playing, from Luigi Nono's meditative "La Lontananza Nostalgica Utopica Futura" on Thursday to Gyorgy Ligeti's riotous Violin Concerto on Sunday, nothing Ms. Kopatchinskaja did was insincere, flighty or unserious.
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As recently as five years ago, the question wasn't whether Miranda was too flighty to be taken seriously, but whether she was too dour and unpleasant to be worth paying any attention to whatsoever.
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Paul is too nice, Lindsay too flighty, Gretchen too lofty and Jimmy too judgey; Edgar wants support and Dorothy can't cope with his success, and it all tumbles forth like lava, because relationships are volcanos.
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The entire cast — including Ben Stiller as Sandler's successful, high-strung half brother; Elizabeth Marvel as their diffident sister; and Emma Thompson as Hoffman's flighty third wife — is fabulous, as is Baumbach's witty, thoughtful script.
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Alex Shephard: My immediate takeaway after Theon beat the shit out of that random Greyjoy goon was that the Ironborn are a really flighty bunch—it does not take much for them to switch sides!
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In one of the longer bits, the pair pretended to audition for the role of the white Diana Ross in a show about the Supremes, but the humor was a little too flighty to land.
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Furthermore, Dittersdorf went to the trouble of writing a German-language satirical opera entitled "The Marriage of Figaro," in which the character of Cherubino becomes a caricature of Mozart: immature, flighty, vain, addicted to dancing.
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I was no fan of the Mondale/Ferraro ticket and had supported Jesse Jackson in the primary, but the sexist attacks on Ferraro -- the suggestions that menopause would make her scatterbrained and flighty -- got me going.
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Other students in her bunker — twins and a round-faced young woman and a flighty girl with braided knots in her hair — chatted curiously with her, teasing her country accent and asking where she came from.
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She called up the vocal coach and activist Max Margulis, and once she convinced him that she was not a flighty folk singer but a serious person, they embarked on a 30-year course of study.
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Erica also has complex relationships with her flighty and immature mother (played by Kathryn Hahn), her mentally unstable step-brother (Joey Morgan), and a mysterious, hot older guy who hangs around the local bowling alley (Adam Scott).
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The triumph of the most recent season's final episode is the glee it takes in thumbing its nose at gentrification in our neighborhoods and on TV. Flighty Shoshanna converts conscientious Ray's empty cafe into a anti-hipster coffee shop.
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After being comprehensively beaten in their first two head-to-head races on Saturday, the French crew showed that they have the speed and started to master their flighty craft on Sunday when they out-raced veterans Artemis Racing.
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So we are left with the question: should Schöffer's dazzling and flighty work be judged shallow and naïve by our technological dystopic reality, or should we assess our reality as wanting in light of his presumed utopian emancipatory intentions.
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After reaching the apex of his career with "The Tree Of Life" (2011), winner of the Palme d'Or and considered by many critics one of the finest movies of this decade, Mr Malick veered into a flighty, experimental phase.
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Rather than follow flighty swimwear trends or engage with a print that may not have your curves' best interests at heart, why not pick a color from that old reliable triumvirate of red, blue, or, our personal, eternally chic favorite, white?
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And they're all reduced to stereotypes: Harrelson's wife (played by Eleanor Matsuura) is subjected to a parade of dull Asian jokes; the other female characters are party girls obsessed with their neck fat, and a flighty yoga instructor concerned about chakras.
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A popular gynecologist in Dallas (Richard Gere) experiences an onslaught of female problems: an emotionally troubled wife (Farrah Fawcett) and her flighty sister (Laura Dern), a daughter (Kate Hudson) about to be married and a fetching new golf pro (Helen Hunt).
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He's too flighty to stick to a script anyway: consider that his meal ticket to the 2011 White House Correspondents' Dinner (where President Obama ripped him to shreds) came from the Washington Post, from whom he pulled press credentials last week.
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Christine eschews the cheer typically associated with perky electronic music for a caution that feels European partially because her flighty, assured, accented vocals switch off between French and English, partially because she's committed to ironic modes that don't negate feeling.
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He must deal with posh British director Laurence Laurentz (a hilariously flighty Ralph Fiennes), who is desperately unhappy with the casting of the new romantic lead in his film, pretty boy Hobie Doyle (Alden Ehrenreich), a stuntman palpably uncomfortable with speaking roles.
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The flighty Alicia (the phenomenal Zoë Winters) eats potato chips noisily as the group settles in for a night in the woods, while Rodney (Babak Tafti, free and humorous), the most self-consciously enlightened member of the group, does yoga and burns incense.
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Based on stories by Christopher Isherwood and John van Druten's play "I Am a Camera," it told the melancholy love story of Sally Bowles, a flighty, British expatriate singer, and a visiting American writer played out against the backdrop of rising Nazi menace.
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Based on stories by Christopher Isherwood and John van Druten's play "I Am a Camera," it told the melancholy love story of Sally Bowles, a flighty, British expatriate singer, and a visiting American writer played out against the backdrop of rising Nazi menace.
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November is going to be full of romantic betrayals and new commitments for you, Virgo — the only unknown is who you'll be in this analogy: the flighty, emerging artist; the dejected mid-size gallerist; or the blue-chip, mega-dealer sugar daddy?
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The reason for both of those trash choices was Danny believed "flighty, indecisive" Mindy couldn't do those things and still be a good mother; also, making us all hate Danny was a very easy way to explain why we wouldn't be seeing Messina very much.
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It wouldn't do for a 19th century monarch to be seen as a flighty young girl, so to counter that image, the idea of the royal family as we know it today was first introduced, Coleman explained, with Victoria playing the part of the Madonna.
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Mozart in the Jungle is probably Amazon's highest-profile comedy save Transparent, and it pulled in some valuable hardware last month when it won Best Comedy and Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy (for Gael García Bernal's flighty conductor) at the Golden Globes.
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The exception -- in terms of injecting any pep into the proceedings -- would be Keira Knightley as Sugar Plum, one of the regents of the Four Realms, who mixes a breathless, elfin voice with a flighty manner that falls somewhere between animated doll and Marilyn Monroe.
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You can find support for any of these theories, and many others, in the poems; their quirks, though evened out by her early editors, nevertheless lend credence to the idea that she was a familiar New England stereotype, the flighty, eccentric, proto-spinster daughter.
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While Bonet played the flighty and popular daughter of Cliff Huxtable (Cosby) on screen, off screen she upset Cosby with her choice to do a sex scene with Mickey Rourke in the movie Angel Heart, and her topless appearance in Interview magazine to promote the film.
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In Johnson's case, that includes spoofing his own image -- as the kid revels in Bravestone's strength and physique -- while Gillan grouses about her wardrobe, Hart gripes about his diminutive size and, most obviously, Black vamps in playing a flighty girl confused by her new, er, accessories.
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In a family of moody water signs (Kris, Caitlyn, Khloé, Rob, and Kendall), flighty air signs (Kim, Kanye, Scott, and North), and the occasional tough-cookie fire sign (Kourtney, Kylie, Mason, Reign, and Saint), this baby's life will be ruled by the sign of discipline, responsibility, and hard work.
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"The regulatory interventions that have been introduced since the financial crisis did not result in less liquidity in normal times and did not result in liquidity being more 'flighty' when shocks of a mild nature hit the system," the Financial Conduct Authority said in a paper on Thursday.
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The big point of tension is that he has a lot of baggage with women (mommy issues!) and because he's intelligent, he wants to work out with with a partner who can go deep—but then his manic flighty side kicks in and he reminds you of his need for space.
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Still, as before, the production can serve as a platform for excellent singing, and that was supplied here by a strong group of women: the warm-toned Russian Hibla Gerzmava as Donna Anna, the lyrically flighty Swede Malin Bystrom as Donna Elvira, and the appealingly earthy Italian Serena Malfi as Zerlina.
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"If I could direct someone toward compassion that's at a level of consciousness below their flighty political beliefs, from the bottom up, that could eventually get them to say, 'Hey, I think Trump is causing a lot of suffering right now, and I don't agree with him as much,'" he said.
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"Eureka Day," a new play written by Jonathan Spector, directed by Adrienne Campbell-Holt, and produced by the company Colt Coeur (at Walkerspace), is, by contrast, so brilliantly yoked to the current American moment—its flighty politics, its deadly folly—that it makes you want to jump out of your skin.
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When their flighty charge takes off for a weekend at a country estate, the sleuths find themselves in a manor house mystery amusingly fitted out with chilly aristocrats, their family art collections (the Gainsborough and the Reynolds are quality goods, but "the Pre-Raphaelites are vulgar and virtually unsaleable") and their hereditary ghosts.
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People love to wring their hands over these options, asking whether it is even possible to meet a person organically in a physical space in 2017 and subsequently care for them, or if Tinder and its ilk have inured us to each other's feelings and faces, making the human species more flighty, distractible, and mean.
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This Grand Cross, as astrologers call it (because if you drew lines between the planets, it would literally make a cross shape), involves a battle between the sun and Venus in flirty, flighty Gemini versus uptight Saturn in high-minded Sagittarius; plus, a showdown between go-getter Jupiter in Virgo and worrywart Neptune in Pisces.
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Part of that likely comes from my flighty streak, so I always have the option to jump back into the dating pool on a whim — but it's mostly because I often find myself opening the apps to look back on the missed connections, the matches that never resulted in anything more than a face on my phone screen.
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Marine biologists who probably spent years in school and hundreds of thousands of dollars on their education are out here informing us that, actually, lobsters don't mate for life, contrary to what Phoebe, a fictional character in a bad television show whose entire personality trait is being flighty, said at some point in the late '90s.
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I pointed out that people said the same thing during the Great Depression, only to see it disproved when we finally got a big fiscal stimulus called World War II. But the doctrine somehow just got stronger and stronger in elite circles, because it sounded serious and judicious, unlike the seemingly flighty proposition that all we needed was more spending.
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When Jon Stewart parodied her in 2009, one of his gripes was that Ms. Carlson was playing the role of Chrissy from the 1970s sitcom "Three's Company" — the flighty blonde role Suzanne Somers had — when Ms. Carlson in fact attended Stanford and Oxford, and won the Miss America crown in 1988 with a masterful violin rendition of "Zigeunerweisen" by Sarasate.
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When I asked Liz how much her services cost, she gave me an "if you have to ask, you can't afford it" answer and said she wanted to do this to test her creative skills at a different price and because she could not deal with knowing that her flighty best friend's kids, whom she adores, were still living out of cardboard boxes.
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The Henry Green novel—typically portraying failures of love and understanding, and noisy with the vernacular of industrialists and Cockneys, landowners and servants—was terse, intimate, full of accident and unnerving comedy, exquisite though still exuberant, sensual and whimsical, reflexively figurative yet always surprising, preoccupied with social nuance, generational discord, and sensory phenomena while maintaining an air of abstraction, as reflected in those flighty gerund titles.
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Plato, one of the earliest to see democracy as a problem, saw its typical citizen as shiftless and flighty: Sometimes he drinks heavily while listening to the flute; at other times, he drinks only water and is on a diet; sometimes he goes in for physical training; at other times, he's idle and neglects everything; and sometimes he even occupies himself with what he takes to be philosophy.
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She is joined, as all heroes should be, by a motley cast of outsiders she encounters on the way: a mouse she christens Pook, who inadvertently consumes several magic potions that grant him speech and the power to shape-shift, though not at will, a device used to great narrative effect; Auld Nancy, a grumbly hedge witch who can control the weather so long as the magic need not be too exact; a bewitching enchantress named Desdemona, beautiful, flighty, and vain; and, eventually, the lovable but bumbling Sylvanus, who reads the future in blocks of cheese.
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